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Resolved: The United States Government should make abortion illegal.
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Order of rounds:
R1: Acceptance and definitions.
R2: Maximum 2 arguments, no rebuttals.
R3: Maximum 2 arguments and rebuttals are allowed.
R4: ONLY rebuttals and conclusions. Con may not refute what I have said in R4, because I don"t have a chance to do so for your R4 either.
Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, usually during the first 28 weeks.
All other words in the resolution are self explanatory.
Thank you minddrag for challenging me into this debate.
DEFINITIONS (common words that I am going to use in my arguments yet to come):
Illegal: not allowed by the law [1]
Ban: to forbid people from using (something) [2]
I hope that we will have a wonderful and excellent debate.
[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com...
[2] http://www.merriam-webster.com...
The topic we are debating today is whether or not the United States Government should make abortion illegal. The United States has already risen over the religious institutions in legalising gay marriage, which is a very big step in the direction of the free mind and body movement. Considering that they have already stated that everyone should have the right to do what they want with their body, shouldn't abortion be legal also? I would consider the baby, part of the mother until the umbilical cord is cut. Until then the baby is basically a parasite, feeding off the strength of the mother. I will go more in depth into this later on in the debate.
My second point is that every child should have the right to grow up in a strong household. Some of the factors that would make up a strong household would be parents and love, although those are just some of them, they make up the epitome of a good household. A child growing up without a good household is over twice as likely to develop psychotic tendencies and have mental disorders.
I would like to now point out that by requesting an abortion, the mother is stating that she cannot care for, does not want, or cannot have the child inside her body. For better or for worse this puts the child without love if it comes into this world. It will be more likely to be bullied, and abused, by peers at school or by the mother. Or the child could be put into an orphanage, a drain on the system, never knowing its mother, depressed and lonely. Do you want this fate for a child?
This picture would not be complete without a father of course. Whether it is a teen pregnancy and the father simply denies the girl, to a marriage where both the mother and the father do not want the baby, accidents to happen. Because birth control is never 100% effective, we should not, and have a moral responsibility not to make abortions illegal. Until we can say that you will not get a baby is you use this super condem (or any other form of 100% effective birth control), we should not take abortions away.
Why is this pro lifers might ask? Well it is because, we need to offer the women a foolproof option of getting rid of a child, that will not be loved, cared for and was a stake, weather by not having it made in the first place, or by cutting it off before it is born. We should be attempting as a society to produce children that are wholesome and grow up in a happy and healthy household, with both parents who care for them, as that will produce the best results for a society to grow. We as an advanced society should be promoting the sexual lifestyles of to individuals without allowing a chance of a baby to come in and figuratively and actually wrecking their lives, and their finances.
It is also a huge risk to the women. The number of women who get abortions does not change when it goes from being legal to illegal, or vice versa. The only thing that changes is more women die. Every year, 78,000 women die from unsafe abortions. This is because sometimes women cannot have the baby because of ridicule, it is unsafe or numerous other reasons. The women needs to not have said baby so she attempts to take it out without an abortion, which almost always leads to injury or death.
Reproductive restrictions do not end with abortion. Many people also argue that contraception itself is wrong—another mainly-religious philosophy—and will deny women the protection they need based on this belief. There are legislative acts that allow actual pharmacists to deny women their birth control because of their beliefs; does this not violate the Hippocratic Oath, especially if thousands of women are on birth control because their very lives depend on it (see above point)? Also, since it is mybelief that men should not rape women, if I were a pharmacist, would I have a right to deny a man his Viagra just in case he uses it to rape? You never know.
This moves me onto my final point for this speech. This is that most newly weds and new couples, simply cannot afford to care for a baby. Having another member of the family is extremely expensive (I am sure there are stats on this, but without Internet, I cannot check them), and it should not be forced on people.
Governments should stay out of the bedroom. Like China's one child policy, to restrict population growth, do we need a policy that does not allow us to control our population, and have children being born without love, or caring parents?
It is for these reasons that I do believe that this resolution Resolved that the United States Government should make abortion illegal, must and will fall. Thank you and have a great day! I look forward to my opponent's argument.
Roe v. Wade: A landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. [1]
The Supreme Court's landmark decision paved the way to make abortion legal. The decision says that women have any right to abort a child in early weeks of pregnancy but inhibits their ability to miscarry a child in later weeks. However, the legal decision is wrong. The 1973 Supreme Court considered that they went above their borderline as the US Constitution has no warranties in the concerns of privacy and abortion, and that abortion is a subject for the legislators, not the judges themselves.
In the 14th amendment, it states that "...nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property..." [2]. Therefore, we can see that at the first time that this amendment is used, abortion is illegal. There are Federal Laws that are already protecting the unborn, namely: the law of death penalty, fetal homicide laws (Federal Act 38) and Victims of Violence Act.
Federal law prohibits the death penalty for pregnant women until they give birth. (18 U.S.C.A. S.3596) In essence, the law declared that an innocent unborn person cannot be sentenced and put to death for a crime he did not commit. If the unborn child were not seen as a person in the eyes of the law, there would be no need for this prohibition.
Common law typically prohibited the execution of a pregnant woman until birth, though its prohibition was not even as strong as the current federal law. The U.S. Supreme Court (in Union P. R. Co. v. Botsford) explained the purpose of the common law doctrine: "to guard against the taking of the life of an unborn child for the crime of the mother." Inconsistently, the Court calls the unborn child a "child" and yet refuses to recognize her as a person.
And the UVVA prevents abortion of fetuses, as it defines them as a "… a child in utero, and the term 'child in utero' or 'child, who is in utero' means a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb."
Abortion is basically murder. Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being without justification or excuse. [3] The science we have learned confirms that an unborn child is indeed a human being, and in the States' fetal homicidal laws (alongside with the other two mention), it is made clear that killing unborn children is abhorrent and its life worthy of protection. [4]
There are many religions that refuses abortion. The Bible has it that from the moment of realization, a fetus is a human being. "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations" - Jeremiah 1:5. It can't be denied that one of the commandments of God is "thou shalt not kill." Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, among others, dismisses abortion.
Abortion makes life dispensable, and in fact, doctors were first prohibited to practice it for this reason. Nowadays, doctors are recommended to testify that they shouldn't play as God, and 8% of present-day oaths executed clearly prompts the doctor to reject the abortion practice. However, it is a big business in America given that 25% of pregnancies are aborted.
Abortion can lead to having medical problems and mental stress. This is likely to take into effect at least 5 years after doing it, and they have an increased chance of committing suicide (154% more possible than women in normal pregnancies). The miscarriage can have an unfavorable reaction to the partner as well. Due to upsurge of the possibility of miscarriage and placenta previa, it can cause mental stress to those who have done it, too. It can also rise the danger of breast cancer.
There are 14% of American women that are waiting for adopting a child, whereas only 1% have completed the process. After the 1973's Roe v. Wade, the 9% of babies born in America that were put for fosterage seriously dropped to 1%. These soon-to-be babies are not given the chance to appreciate life, freedom and quest of joy because of abortion.
A 12-week old fetus have eyes, fingers, toes, heart and a nervous system. By 8 weeks the unborn child can lean their spines which is an implication that they can feel pain. They can pull back from painful stimuli. During abortion, a 12-week old fetus wanes and opens their mouths to scream.
"While the majority of abortions that take place in the US and around the world are either medical (procured through drugs) or simple vacuum extractions abortions at a later stage of pregnancy are more difficult. These are properly called dilation and extraction abortions but are often referred to as Partial Birth Abortions. The procedure is truly horrendous for the fetus. It is turned in the womb and all of the body bar the head is delivered (the delivery of the head would imply a live birth). At this stage the fetus is completely alive and healthy. The surgeon then pierces the head and extracts the brain killing the baby. The body is then delivered. This is not a sanitized procedure, it is not humane and it is not always performed on a fetus who can feel no pain, many of the babies on whom this procedure is performed are capable of a viable birth. If the baby's head were delivered and the procedure subsequently carried out it would be characterized as murder. This type of abortion is subject to bans and legal challenges. As a result many providers now stop the baby's heart with a lethal injection prior to dismembering the fetus in utero. This does not, however, detract from the fact that the fetus is alive and capable of life just seconds before the injection takes effect." [5]
Verily, since 2010, 10 states have downright bans to women attempting to do abortion for more than 20 weeks. And did everyone of you know, that the possibility of women who performed abortion of dying is 0.6 in 100,000 (that is 6,000)? And if the 977,000 reported abortions in 2014 are taken individually [6] , then it means that 58,620 women died from doing this practice.
And truly, the mothers of Celine Dion, Cher, Justine Bieber, and Tim Tebow, among others, are told to undertake the procedure of abortion, but just denied it and instead gave birth to them. Having included that, it is also seen that abortion excludes the likelihood of a human being's offerings to humankind. [7] [8] [9] [10]
It is shameless to to use this practice as a form of contraception because of disturbance. [11] The Guttmacher Institute addressed that 50% of women having abortions every year had at least one under their belt, and 8.5% of them where Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is informed in 2010 that women doing it have sustained three or more abortions. [12] [13] This indicates that women are using it for contraception.
And one more thing, the fetus should not be punished by an adult's mistake. [14]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org...
[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org...
[4] http://liveactionnews.org...
[5] http://www.listland.com...
[8] https://www.lifesitenews.com...
[9] http://www.today.com...
[10] http://www.usatoday.com...
[11] http://liveactionnews.org...
[12] http://www.guttmacher.org...
[13] http://www.cdc.gov...
[14] http://www.bbc.co.uk...
You stated as your first point,"the law declared that an innocent unborn person cannot be sentenced and put to death for a crime he did not commit. If the unborn child were not seen as a person in the eyes of the law, there would be no need for this prohibition." I would now like to point out the flaw in this argument. It is moral to save this life, as the mother will be put to death right after the birth. This is allowing one life to succeed the other, and the child will not be punished for the mothers crime. This I would state is a completely different argument then abortion because it would not be saving the women's life or have any of the merits of abortion.
In your speech you talked about religion and abortion. Although the Catholic and Lutheran churches oppose abortion, more of their members believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases versus illegal in all or most cases (51% vs. 45%, Lutheran; 48% vs. 45%, Catholic). [1] This fact should show you that although it is the churches stance to oppose abortion, the majority of the church community are for abortion.
I"m probably not going to convince you that a fetus isn"t a life, as that"s basically the most intractable part of this whole debate, so I"ll be brief. A fetus can"t survive on its own. It is fully dependent on its mother"s body, unlike born human beings. Even if a fetus was alive, the "right to life" doesn"t imply a right to use somebody else"s body. People have the right to refuse to donate their organs, for example, even if doing so would save somebody else"s life. The "right to life" also doesn"t imply a right to live by threatening somebody else's life. Bearing children is always a threat the life of the mother. A "right to life" is, at the end of the day, a right to not have somebody else"s will imposed upon your body. Do women not have this right as well?
Even before birth, there are costs to pregnancy. In addition to the whole "carrying another human being around in your stomach for nine months" thing, many women, particularly teens, are shunned and shamed for their pregnancies " not only by friends, families, employers, and classmates, but also by advertisements in the subway. There's also the risk of violent retribution from abusive partners and parents. In short, there are a lot of reasons a woman might seek an abortion. Adoption doesn"t address all of them.
Now I will move on to my constructive speech. A woman's risk of dying from having an abortion is 0.6 in 100,000, while the risk of dying from giving birth is around 14 times higher (8.8 in 100,000). [2] The mortality rate of a colonoscopy is more than 40 times greater than that of an abortion.[3]
The US Supreme Court has declared abortion to be a "fundamental right" guaranteed by the US Constitution. The landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade, decided on Jan. 22, 1973 in favor of abortion rights, remains the law of the land. The 7-2 decision stated that the Constitution gives "a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy," and that "This right of privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. [4]
Women who receive abortions are less likely to suffer mental health problems than women denied abortions. A Sep. 2013 peer-reviewed study comparing the mental health of women who received abortions to women denied abortions found that women who were denied abortions "felt more regret and anger" and "less relief and happiness" than women who had abortions. The same study also found that 95% of women who received abortions "felt it was the right decision" a week after the procedure. [5] Studies by the American Psychological Association (APA), the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC), and researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health all concluded that purported links between abortion and mental health problems are unfounded. [6]
Women who are denied abortions are more likely to become unemployed, to be on public welfare, to be below the poverty line, and to become victims of domestic violence. A University of California at San Francisco study found that women who were turned away from abortion clinics (because they had passed the gestational limit imposed by the clinic) were three times more likely to be below the poverty level two years later than women who were able to obtain abortions. 76% of the "turnaways" ended up on unemployment benefits, compared with 44% of the women who had abortions. The same study found that women unable to obtain abortions were more likely to stay in a relationship with an abusive partner than women who had an abortion, and were more than twice as likely to become victims of domestic violence. [7] [8]
Abortion reduces crime. According to a study co-written by Freakonomics co-author Steven D. Levitt, PhD, and published in the peer-reviewed Quarterly Journal of Economics, "legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions." Around 18 years after abortion was legalized, crime rates began to drop abruptly, and crime rates dropped earlier in states that allowed abortion earlier. Because "women who have abortions are those most at risk to give birth to children who would engage in criminal activity," and women who had control over the timing of childbearing were more likely to raise children in optimal environments, crime is reduced when there is access to legal abortion. [9]
It is for the reasons that I have stated above, and in my previous speech that I would encourage a vote against the resolution. I look forward to my opponents rebuttals and speech in the next round. Below you will see a list of the resources that I have used to write my rebuttals and speech. Thank you for your time.
[1]Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, US Religious Landscape Survey: Religious Beliefs and Practices: Diverse and Politically Relevant, religions.pewforum.org, June 2008
[2]E.G. Raymond and D.A. Grimes, "The Comparative Safety of Legal Induced Abortion and Childbirth in the United States," Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feb. 2012
[3]American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and American Medical Association, "Brief of Amici Curiae [in Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services et al. v. Attorney General Gregory Abbot et al.]," acog.org, Dec. 19, 2013
[4]Roe v. Wade (342 KB) , US Supreme Court, lp.findlaw.com, Jan. 22, 1973
[5]Corinne H. Rocca, Katrina Kimport, et al., "Women's Emotions One Week after Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion in the United States," Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Sep. 2013
[6]Susan A. Cohen, "Still True: Abortion Does Not Increase Women"s Risk of Mental Health Problems," Guttmacher Policy Review, Spring 2013
[7]Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), University of California at San Francisco, "Turnaway Study," ansirh.org (accessed Apr. 22, 2014)
[8]Annalee Newitz, "What Happens to Women Denied Abortions? This Is the First Scientific Study to Find Out," io9.com, Nov. 13, 2012
[9]John J. Donohue, and Steven D. Levitt, "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2001 (Despite admitting to an error in one of this study's tables, Levitt has stated that "the story we put forth in the paper is not materially changed by the coding error." See Steven D. Levitt, "Everything in Freakonomics Is Wrong!," freakonomics.com, Nov. 28, 2005)
How pregnancy does begin? It started with an intercourse, and then the sperm penetrates with the ovum, fertilizes, and a new human life has begin (no need for source. It is basic science). This life has a biochemical identity through DNA that is different and unique from any other individuals. [1]
How did abortion become legal in the U.S.? In the 1960s, colleges and universities began a sexual revolution which resulted to unwanted pregnancies and in turn, pressured lawmakers to allow and legalize abortion. [2] [3] In 1967, many states started to do so. And then, in 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court finished Roe v. Wade, and initially made abortion legal throughout America. From that day on, 57 million innocent lives (as of 2015) have been lost by this practice. [4] With that figure, the most gruesome war has been ongoing for 40 years now and has gone undiscovered. This terror is as ghastly as anything terrorists can pinpoint because it destroys the basic community of man: family. By damaging the simplest human bond of all, a mother and a child, abortion breaks down the valued glue that unites America.
There are many cases that women die later on or cannot conceive further children because nearly half of the abortions that are executed around the world are performed by unskilled doctors. [1] [2] Abortion has taught mankind that there is a way out of pregnancy. It also influenced the youth wherein we should teach them the frugality of sex. It also has an impact to young people where they would know that there is no severe effect for that primary doing.
Abortion can also have a negative impact for families. Performing an abortion is not some good role modeling skills and it can damage family relations because of the decision they have done. [3] [4] Abortion is also a very heart aching thing to do as it is impossible to undo or alter.
Abortion can also cause many medical problems such as bladder injury, bowel injury, ectopic pregnancy, hemorrhage, hepatitis, infection, laceration of the cervix, miscarriages, uterus perforation, placenta previa, post-abortion syndrome, breast cancer (as mentioned in the previous round), and many more. There is a possibility that your baby would be incomplete and a less chance of delivering a normal birth [5]. Furthermore, the National Cancer Institute conducted a study that states that the risk of breast cancer for those who had induced abortion was 50% higher than other women. [14]
There are also aftermaths of not safe abortion. Worldwide, the unsafe practice of this is 220 per 100,000. [6] It is even higher than what Con stated that "normal birth gives 8.8 out of 100,000 deaths.
"For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be." Psalm 139:13-16
David elaborates it clearly that he was there personally, and not as a blotch of tissue that later developed into his human figure.
""I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations." Jeremiah 1:5
The above Bible passage points out that every child that is in the mother's womb is unique.
In the Old Testament, God required death penalty to mothers who gave birth to a child prematurely and dies. However, if no "mischief" follows, the death penalty is not being executed.
"If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life," Exodus 21:22-23
Why would God demands death penalty if He didn't recognize the fetus as a human being?
Think about this: at two weeks pregnancy the fetus can move alone. By four weeks the fetus has limbs, muscle tissue, heart and a heartbeat. In the fifth week, eyes, ears, and small hands are developed. The fetus can now react to touch by the sixth and seventh week. Now, when a mother aborts in the eighth week or more than, the poor child sometimes tries to breath (if twelve weeks old, the fetus often strives for life two or three hours after being aborted). [10] [11] And the baby that is eight weeks old or more than endures real physical pain. [12] To think, the fetus' heart starts beating at 20 days, and began to send brainwaves from his brain in 40 days, these factors are used by the law to verify death (brain and heartbeat). Why these can't be used to ascertain life? (13)
And one of the commandments of God in the Book of Exodus, it says "Thou shalt not murder." What is murder? According to the Bible, it is an intentional killing of an innocent human being. Therefore, it is illogical to say that the majority of believers support abortion. Two questions, among others, should be asked. One, are they religious enough? Two, do they read the Bible daily or attend the Church weekly? [8] There are many more Bible verses that prove that abortion is the shedding of innocent blood, violation of the Golden rule, attempts to destroy the work of God, encourages sin, degrades human life, disannuls the plan of God, and shows lack of faith, which I will gladly present in the next round, if the circumstances are favorable. [9]
Therefore, abortion is merely an illogical act to commit. Women can mate whenever they want. And there is a possibility that the baby has a better life than anybody else (refer to my statement in Round 1). Moreover, humans are the only animals that deliberately kill the fetus because they only thought of it as a thing. [7]
REBUTTALS: (P - Paragraph)
- the opening -
P.1: My argument completely states that the law sees the baby as a human being, and therefore avoid killing the mother until she completes giving nourishment to it.
P.2: P.s 8-15.
P.3: P. 15. Using Con's argument, it means that human beings should not eat animal meat because we didn't have that right to use somebody else' body. We are carnivorous; we hunt animals for our food source (and we are becoming more carnivorous). [15]
P.4, 5-7: My P. 4 - 5
P.6: Roe V. Wade is not the Law of the Land as it isn't passed nationwide. [16]
P.9: 57M aborts = murder, P.2
(1) http://www2.le.ac.uk...
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org...
(3) http://www.alternet.org...
(4) http://www.lifenews.com...
(1) https://www.guttmacher.org...
(2) https://www.sciencedaily.com...
(3) http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org...
(4) http://liveactionnews.org...
(5) http://www.abortionfacts.com...
(6) https://www.guttmacher.org...
(7) http://www.public.asu.edu...
(8) http://www.christianexaminer.com...
(9) http://www.biblebelievers.com...
(10) http://www.babycentre.co.uk...
(11) http://liveactionnews.org...
(12) http://www.abortionfacts.com...
(13) J.M. Tanner, G.R. Taylor, and the Editors of Time-Life Books, Growth, New York: Life Science Library, 1965.
(14) http://www.texasrighttolife.com...
(15) http://www.nature.com...
(16) http://www.arky.org...
Rule for R4: "ONLY rebuttals and conclusions."
I cannot rebut Con's statement in R4, and he violated his rule. Not making an argument for this round is not a rebuttal and a conclusion. Therefore, I will quote from a source [1] why abortion is immoral, and should be self-explanatory:
According to Marquis, abortion is seriously morally wrong because it is an act of killing a being with a right to life and killing a being with a right to life is seriously morally wrong because it robs such a being of its future--a future, in particular, of great value like ours.
For this reason, vote Pro! Thank you Con, minddrag, for such a memorable debate.
[1] http://www.qcc.cuny.edu...
No, I mean my RFD -- is my RFD fine? Do you have any questions/concerns?
@donald.keller: Define #dumba$$. A person who's debating is not a dumba$$.
Anyways, saying you lost doesn't mean I'm against you. I'm very pro-life. However, I'm also pro-good voting.
@Wylted. Ikr? See the issues I'm bringing up in the forums?
I joined this website to have a healthy experience. I joined this site to expand my knowledge by reading and increase my online debating skills. I don't seek for fights, and things such as this. I thought that I shouldn't make friends with an enemy. Unfortunately, I am friends with you and if there is a way to unfriend you, I shall do it. Don't tell that you don't need me because I don't need you either. You have no contributions for me staying in this website.
A win, loss, or tie does not have any contributions for my future. So what if I loss in this debate? Does it matter? I said he violated his Round Rule, not FF, so never blame me in PM'ing those guys to ask for FF votes. And I never messaged the guys who voted here. It is only you and Midnight1131 because I saw from the forum post of whiteflame (Taking a Step Back, I think) to only ask those guys some votes because he will never have time to vote. I hate people who are against me in many ways. If you consider me as an enemy and a threat to what you are doing, do I care? Then I'll think of you the same.
And what I said is he violated a Round Rule not forfeiture so I'm not responsible for all of the votes.
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Who doesn't like going to Flea markets and coming back home with a handful of treasures that costs you not more than a couple of hundred bucks?
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Antique china dishes
While this seems like an obvious choice to be searching through the flea markets, most of us deem it as old and useless and not bother paying attention to it. But can you imagine coming across some China dishware handed down in a family from one generation to generation?
Ever come across those sophisticated houses which have its chinaware on the display? Yes, those beautiful china dishes which are displayed on the mantelpieces and look absolutely gorgeous. You could display your chinaware too, you just need to pay attention in your next flea market spree.
You have a great chance of finding vintage or antique looking Silverware or Silver serving utensils while looking through a flea market. They bring so much character to your dining set and comparatively not as costly as buying antique silverware on online sites.
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A lot of times, flea markets are a good place to find some French glassware, coolers or Champagne coupes which are both inexpensive and a good catch. This glassware and coolers come handy during summers when you wish to make lemon soda and since these aren't costly, you don't have to think twice before letting your kids use it.
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"Anything in Romania can be a story. Without social criticism. Without anti-govermental messages. Without hatred. Without superiority. With honesty. With understanding. With love." Cristian Nemescu
I am a Romanian filmmaker. That phrase is factually true, I am born in Romania and I am a filmmaker, yet I have a German heritage as well and I didn't study Romanian film nor am I influenced by it. The so-dubbed "Romanian New Wave" has zero to do with me, it belongs to an older generation of cineastes who have other ideas to express than I do. So I made films in England, worked with other Europeans, all with diverging and fascinating tastes, so my influences are conglomerated from my British experience. But now I returned to Romania to rekindle with my home country and learn more about its film industry. Then I remembered why I left in the first place.
When I was younger, the plan was to enter what is considered the best Romanian film school and then have a career here, but I kept bumping into a type of cinematic taste and approach that I didn't resonate with. While preparing with university professors for the admission, I realised that this school was championing metaphorical and occult cinema above all else, leaving little room for personal discovery. The cinema I was introduced to is, of course, masterful and emblematic, but the academic context transformed it into an intellectual exercise rather than a passion and I remember feeling ashamed if I disliked a director or film that was considered an indisputable treasure. What's worse, none of the Romanian films on the compulsory list left their mark on me, other than I realised they weren't showing the Romania I knew and felt.
In the meantime I was accepted into an English film school and I took the offer without regret, because I was against the artistic snobbery I was exposed to in Romania. The English teaching approach was on the other extreme and students were mostly left to their devices and given guidelines rather than rules. The system was much more to my taste: very open, allowing for experimentation and discovery, no judgement over what films you wanted to dissect. Here I was able to realise on my own what I consider to be a quality film, even if it did overlap with that of the Romanian teachers.
After my British film experience, I returned to Romania and thought about reintegrating, seeing if things have changed or if my generation started to do interesting things I could join in on. Perusing through our country's recent masters, I remembered that there had been a director who gave me hope of a better direction for Romanian cinema. He had a fresh and vibrant vision expressed through universal stories, with an inner poetry that can't be plainly interpreted, but should be felt. His name was Cristian Nemescu and he died at 26, during the editing of his first feature film.
I feel indebted to him. His untimely death I find is still a huge loss to our film industry, him being the only one in my eyes that tried something different and representative of my generation. Similarly to his debut feature being called "California Dreamin' (Endless)", it feels like our film history is also still unfinished. I feel a need continue his work and mission to unearth Romanian beauty through story. He led the way towards a simple yet deep cinema, inspired by his own life, combining sweetness with toughness. Mostly I like that he seemed to be a person of great humour, ridiculing metaphors that already became a cliché when he was attending film school. I like that he had the talent to create unique characters and not just stereotypes, that his films could be felt, not just made to decode and analyse. Having the right to expressive freedom, many directors of the "Romanian New Wave" have approached communist themes and frustrations of a generation that is very far from my own. Nemescu went towards the individual, not the collective, and he attacked his interior demons head-on, which then anyone could identify with.
So now I'm trying to find this indie film spirit that should be dwelling inside young Romanian filmmakers waiting to be recognized. There is a strong need for youth and freshness, a removal of the old system dogmas and terrain in which we are able to make our own mistakes, to be curious and experimental and to discover the great masters on our own.
Today, anyone can shoot and edit, but not everyone can make a film. There is still a barrier between the "endangered" professionals and mentor-less amateurs with great potential. It is such a shame that there is no formula to combine the expertise of the wise with the courage of the young, which could lead to a whole new filmmaking paradigm. In times of hyper-massive media content, we need to remind and guide audiences and filmmakers alike about the basic purpose of film as a gateway towards self-knowledge, towards our own subconscious and the invisible roots that bind humanity. Viewed in this context filmmaking is the best form of therapy. Nemescu did not run away from his own frustrations, which can be noticed as a leitmotiv throughout his (too short) work, and thus he managed to exorcise his worries. The only way of ridding a fear is by facing it, by looking the dragon in the eye and dancing with it. "When the strongest adversary you have is yourself, nothing else from the exterior world scares you anymore." (Lupşa). Self-irony, humour, self-deprecation, openness and the courage of sharing with others are steps towards discovering your Self.
Our lives are the most interesting and exciting stories, but most people try to escape it in other people's narratives, dreaming of different scenarios of their lives, without realising that the stories we resonate most with, attract us because they come from a sincere place. Real life is more tangled and complex than any made-up narrative, which is inspired only by life's surface. So let us share our lives and stories, and to learn how to do it well.
This post was inspired by Cristian Lupşa's in-depth article about the late director's life, published in Esquire Romania in Sept 2007, "Nemescu – Life as a Film".
Here is the full version of his medium short "Marilena de la P7", subtitled in English.
On behalf of Nemescu and Andrei Toncu (his sound designer who died alongside him), NexT International Film Festival was founded, to encourage young filmmakers and continue their legacy.


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Where are the viewer votes for American Idol front-runner Jordin Sparks coming from? Possibly the Christian right.
A photo that seems to show her holding a "Stop Abortion Now" sign (courtesy of her MySpace page) is making the rounds of Idol fan postings online.
Most viewers are unaware, though. In Idol fashion, no one on air ever asks Jordin about politics because the show builds up these future musical properties with cotton candy profiles. Meanwhile, anti-abortion-rights people are definitely trying to politicize Idol.
At least one overzealous outfit attacked the show in a press release, screaming in a headline, "AMERICAN IDOL NOW FUNDING PRO-ABORTION GROUPS."
You see, two charities that benefitted were UNICEF and Save the Children, organizations that feed the most starving-to-death families around the world.
But UNICEF and Save the Children also do family planning. If potential mothers die of hunger, their someday-unborn babies won't even become pre-unborn. True believers don't want to hear that.
So now, the trio of finalists is Jordin, Blake Lewis and Melinda Doolittle. Horrible Blake will probably get ejected next week. Paula Abdul loves Blake. My friend Ashley says that's because Paula is sexist and stands up to dance during male performances.
This week, Paula called Blake a "contemporary rebel" for the way he beatboxed to Bee Gees songs in falsetto. That would have made him a rebel in 1983, maybe. Also a dork. But based on the old ages of songs contestants must sing, the aggregate year Idol actually takes place in is 1982, so of course Paula thinks Blake is ahead of the back-to-the-future curve.
The judges truly need to catch up. A few months ago, Blake sang "All Mixed Up," a huge 1995 MTV hit that helped sell 3 million albums for the band 311. Paula, Randy and Simon beamed at how modern it sounded, since they'd never heard it.
In other words, Paula, Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell are so out of touch with modern rock from 2007 and Top 10 rock from 1995 that they think Blake's subpar beatboxing is hip to be square.
Fortunately, voters probably won't stick with Blake. Melinda and Jordin look destined for a faceoff. Melinda should win, as the only contestant who interprets fresh arrangements of old songs and sings them strong in perfect pitch.
Christian rightists ought to be pleased with Melinda. In her official Idol bio, she says if she wins the first thing she'll do is thank "Jesus and my mommy."
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Daoiri Farrell , a graduate of BCFE in Irish Traditional Music Performance and liveIreland presenter won two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Daoiri had been nominated in 3 Categories and on the night won, Best Traditional Track for the track Van Diemen's Land from his new album 'True Born Irishman' (featuring our own Pat Daly and Tony Byrne) and also the Horizon Award for best new artist.
Daoiri and his band (featuring Pat and Tony) performed Van Diemen's Land on stage in the Royal Albert Hall last night. Ry Cooder, Billy Bragg and Al Stewart also performed on the night. Full details can be found on:
BBC Radio 2 Folk Music Awards
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Oi!!! Who you calling stupid?
Aiyoh!!! I am getting really confused la. I keep reading on the Internet that the world is laughing at us. Mostly about our continuing debate on who can use the word Allah and who cannot. But then recently, no less than the flers in the United Nations applauded our Najib for painting a picture of our country as a model of moderation. In everything. Even President Obama heaped praise on us when he didn't show up for his visit due to his country shutting down. Papers in the Middle East and even Pakistan are giggling if not laughing out loud. At US!
So what names is the world calling us now? Can they use it or not?


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WHAT treasures could lie beneath the earth at a Castle Bromwich church?
A team of archeologists will be descending on St Mary and St Margaret's Church later this month and carrying out a dig.
The survey will be conducted by experts from the University of Birmingham and is part of preparations for the building of a new community hall.
A church spokesman said: "Two trenches will be dug across the site and the team will be looking for items of archaeological and historical significance in the church grounds which date back to Norman times."
The site has a busy history, so hopes are high that the team might uncover some interesting items.
While the current red-brick building was put up in the 1700s, the new church was built around a much older timber frame.
Parts of the medieval structure have survived intact to this day and there has been activity on the site for thousands of years.
History buffs are welcome to go down on September 12, when a series of events will be held as part of Heritage Weekend.
Proceedings will officially get underway at 2pm.
As well as the excavations, visitors will be taken on tours and can enjoy free admission to nearby Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens.


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The latest ad from Obama's presidential campaign revealed his primary tactic for this year's presidential election: attack the messenger of his failed policies.
Obama for America recently released an ad, "Swiss Bank Account," in response to the new Americans for Prosperity ad, "Wasteful Spending," which highlights the billions of taxpayer dollars that were sent to foreign companies as part of the president's green energy government spending boondoggle.
This is the second time in 2012 that President Obama has responded to an AFP ad detailing his disastrous economic policies. Both times, President Obama has launched personal smear campaigns vilifying our organization of two million activists — even using a version of "liar, liar pants on fire" to divert from the real issue of his failed record.
Obama for America's dodge-and-deflect campaign tactics would be fruitless without the mainstream media in his corner, ready and willing to carry water for his big-government agenda. The lack of journalistic integrity, or even curiosity, cannot be denied when one sees how some are so willing, almost fixedly, to justify almost any behavior or decision the President makes.
The Washington Post joined ThinkProgress and Huffington Post in an eager rush to defend President Obama against the proven facts of our ad. Almost immediately following the release of our ad online, the Post offered up excuses why Obama's wasteful use of billions of taxpayer dollars is really nothing we worrywarts should be concerned about.
The piece, delivered under the questionable banner "The Fact Checker," called our TV ad "over-the-top" yet contained zero substantive refutation of the facts.
In the Post's "fact-check," they write, "Thus, in the Americans for Prosperity ad, questions about relatively small amounts of more than $800 billion in stimulus money turn into 'American taxpayers are paying to send their own jobs to foreign countries.'"
The simple truth is more than $2 billion of stimulus dollars went to foreign companies. That is a fact. What is in dispute here is whether or not that matters. Americans for Prosperity believes that it does, and even though billions may be a pittance to Washington politicians and reporters, billions is a lot of money to many hardworking taxpayers. All those "pittances" have added up, which is why we are now almost $16 trillion in debt.
Throughout the piece, the Fact Checker works overtime telling us what to think: Obama's obvious abuse of taxpayer dollars really isn't that important, is misunderstood, or is somehow justified.
The American people know Obama's stimulus bills were unsound policies that have caused our nation to go further into debt. Yet continuing its complete disregard of the failed stimulus, the Washington Post suggests that American taxpayer-funded stimulus money wasn't necessarily intended for American industries and jobs.
"Americans for Prosperity says that '$1.2 billion [went] to a solar company building a plant in Mexico.' So what? The stimulus money went to a solar plant in California; the Mexican plant is simply another investment."
So what? So, $1.2 billion went to a solar company investing in Mexico rather than the U.S. That is an undisputed fact that matters to American taxpayers, even if it doesn't matter to the Washington Post.
Our ad also describes a federal loan for $529 million given to Fisker Automotive. The money went to subsidize production of their luxury electric sports car that costs $102,000 and is assembled in Finland.
The fact that some of those car parts are assembled in Delaware is enough for the Fact Checker to sweep the entire boondoggle under the rug and inform us that Americans shouldn't be concerned about subsidizing six-figure sports cars from Finland. Not mentioned in the ad, and apparently not important enough for the Washington Post to mention, is the fact that hundreds of Fisker vehicles were recently recalled due to risk of battery fire, and the company has been forced recently to lay off a couple dozen workers in its Delaware plant.
The Fact Checker presses on: Americans for Prosperity also asserts that the stimulus bill sent "tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in China." The source is the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, but again, the article was much more nuanced.
True, there is more to this story, but not much. The traffic lights are for the United States market, but we're buying most of the important parts from China. Hardly an excuse the American taxpayer should accept for sending millions overseas while our economy struggles to survive.
The bottom line: every claim in the AFP ad "Wasteful Spending" is backed up by cold, hard facts. The Obama Administration and the Washington Post may not like the facts, or they may think the facts are not important, but the American people deserve to know the truth about President Obama's record.


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1960s Fashion Trends
For The 1960 Fashion Year
At the beginning of 1960, the American woman was dressing in the manner of the 1930's. Strict, well-tailored suits were de rigueur for day wear. For evening, she wore either the same strictly cut suits in de luxe fabrics or slinky, bias-cut crepes. . Her hair and her make-up were fairly natural. Hair was worn shoulder-length and casually turned under by day, often wrapped up high at night. Make-up was unobtrusively becoming, with more and more emphasis on eyes.
By the end of 196o, the well-tailored, well-behaved young woman just described had been replaced by the flapper of the Twenties—her hair was as short as it could be without being shingled (and some top models even went in for shingling), her make-up (white face, charcoal-blackened eye-lids, and red, red lips) looked more like that of pantomimist Marcel Marceau than that of a healthy young woman. Her clothes had the spineless, waist-less look that years earlier had become known as the debutante slouch—only this time the look was built into the clothes. This represented fashion at its most extreme, however, and there were many concessions to femininity before one reached this point. There they were, however—the unshaped day dresses, the beaded evening tubes, and the garish makeup that seemed to set the clock back 40 years.
Strict tailoring, always loved by American women, came into its own at the beginning of the year. No designer worth his salt could resist the temptation to pare a little off the suit, coat, or dress he was working on. Ben Zuckerman, always a high priest in the fashion world, turned out as handsome a crop of suits, coats, dresses, and even evening costumes as could be found on the American scene. All were tailored within an inch of their lives, yet displayed the inimitable softness that lesser designers envied and women coveted. One of his best suits, a brown-and-beige tweed, had the classic tailored elegance of a man's fine suit: narrow, flat collar, sleeves set high on the shoulder, jacket cut with very little emphasis on the body beneath it. The skirt was short, slim, and somehow feminine.
Shoes for this tailored daytime dressing were lower-heeled, often oval, instead of pointed, at the toe. Shiny, crushed glace kid gloves were part of this look, as well as feminized bowlers or soft slouch hats. Often a fur collar softened an otherwise man-tailored costume. In a gray-flannel suit, for example, where the jacket was cut like a man's smoking jacket and the skirt knifed into pleats, the soft touch was a collar of fur—hair seal—instead of a velvet collar. The same theme was repeated on other suits but with different furs: nutria, red fox, and opossum were great favorites. These were the more conservatively cut suits, however. Actually, the most fashionable suits were those that were the most strictly tailored; they deviated not a jot from their line, bearing neither trimming nor added softness. Characteristic was a mustard-and-white herringbone tweed, double-breasted and jacketed down to the middle of the hips (no waist indication here), with lapels and pockets slightly larger than life to carry so much jacket so far. It, too, was by the ubiquitous Ben Zuckerman.
In all this rash of tailoring, many coats seemed vastly less mannish than the suits they covered, i.e. Zuckerman's beautiful, spare capes, as narrow as they could be without impeding the wearer's pace. For all their strict simplicity, they were faintly nostalgic and definitely romantic. One of the best of these, in taupe wool, had a small, rolled, black Persian-lamb collar and was worn with a Cossack hat of the same fur. Another, by Trigere, resembled Superman's cape—of green tweed, it had wings instead of sleeves, the wings gently folding in toward the hem.
Of the coats that were genuine coats, most were influenced by the trench coat and, for daytime, looked their best in fairly bold tweeds or plaids. Most coats were strictly belted in glossy leather at the waist, or at least sashed, and many were double-breasted. Some had no buttons at all but wrapped around the wearer, with the sash pulled tight and then knotted.
Running counter to all this tailoring was another current, also from the Thirties—simple, untrimmed dresses, often cut on the bias, to snuggle under one of the tailored coats or a long-haired, simply cut fur coat. Donald Brooks of Townley, long an exponent of on-the-bias cutting, did some of the best of these dresses for daytime and evening. One, in off-white jersey, had a high, cowl neckline, short sleeves, and a swaying skirt cut on the bias so that it moved as the wearer moved. Another, in mauve jersey, draped from a high yoke down to the waist and around to the back, had a simple gathered skirt. Wide belts marked the waists on both of these.
Brooks's evening clothes were the softest, most feminine of the season. His love of slim fullness and subtle allure showed up best in his black silk-crepe dresses; one had a back cut down to the waist, a high, halter neck, a bias-cut, flowing skirt. Other designers relied on fabric for elegance and kept on cutting like tailors; typical was a Murray Nieman evening suit, the jacket of gold lame, the strict, floor-length skirt of black velvet, and the shirt underneath of white satin. A theater suit by John Moore of Talmack was cut exactly like his daytime suits, with a cardigan jacket, a tight, slim skirt, and an unadorned overblouse—the only difference was the fabric, which was white silk matelasse. Another theater or cocktail suit, cut just as strictly by Ben Zuckerman, consisted of a gold brocade cardigan jacket, a camisole top, and a slim skirt. Inside, one finally found softness—a sable jacket lining.
Also from the Thirties was one of the year's most popular fashions, the slinky beaded dress cut as simply as a slip but glittering for all its worth (and its worth rose with each bead). Most of these appeared in white, silver, or gold and only at top-level prices, but, by fall, they had burgeoned into the sine qua non for late-day wear.
The news from Paris bore out the American collections with one exception—Yves St. Laurent's tunic. For day, he showed it in gray flannel, long-sleeved and muffled under an Edwardian dog collar of pearls. He showed it in a variety of luscious stuffs for evening, including one beaded silvery-white tunic, sleeveless but also muffled chin-high with pearls. There was some intramural altercation as to hem lines, but most French designers agreed on two inches below the knee, and American designers concurred.
The tailoring to the nth degree that came as such news to suits and coats merely heightened the already perfectionistic tailoring of separates. Sports-wear had never been handsomer or more varied. Tweeds were their bonniest, and although fall colors were muted compared with those of the previous year, some interesting new colors cropped up. A new green, called loden, closely resembled that old olive drab everyone had tried to forget after World War II. It was the top color in sportswear, followed by all manner of browns. Brown was the black of 196o and could be worn, it was discovered, not only with black, but with deep, warm blues (not navy), grays, golds, whites, and beiges—in short, with all the colors where black had become conventional and a little tiresome. The interest in browns brought on all kinds of leather accessories, from the highly coveted and classic alligator (in new shades of gold and taupe as well as the classic dark brown) through lizards, and revamped classics of another day, such as pin-seal leathers. Bags and shoes looked more tailored, too, and the only concession to femininity was a fur hat or a fur collar on a suit or coat.
In the spring, fashion melted into a new silhouette, infinitely softer, much younger. In Paris, a new, almost childishly simple silhouette had taken over, bare-necked, bare-armed, short-skirted, full-skirted. The most typical silhouettes of this new look in Paris (and strangely enough, the most Americanized) were the short-jacketed, swinging-skirted suits of Crahay, designer for Nina Ricci—they made every wearer look ten years younger. Crahay's jackets fitted right down to the waist, where they stopped; his skirts were gored into fullness so that they were flat over the hips. Next on the list for the youthful look was Gabrielle Chanel, designing as always in her own serene, effortless way, but, as always, the height of fashion. Dior followed, with less wearable, often exaggerated clothes that emphasized (as did all the Paris designers) the bosom but often swelled out unbecomingly over the hips. Many of St. Laurent's best clothes featured his "princesse line." One beautiful ball dress of pale-blue silk had a high, strapless top, rounded over the bosom and curved out from there like an urn to a hem that was knee-high in front, floor-long in back.
With the exceptions of Crahay and Chanel, French designers liked hair done high, in high French twists or top-of-the-head buns for daytime and evening, covered by hats that echoed these shapes. Crahay and Chanel showed shorter hair, as did many American designers, cutting it off somewhere below the earlobes and puffing it slightly, instead of inflating it, as in the bouffant hairdo.
In America, the silhouette was closer to nature, more like Crahay's, but the tailoring was replaced by blousing and fluidity. Here, too, collars were gone, and the boat-neck, or slightly rounded, neck-line prevailed, in dresses always, and even in some suits. The waistline was marked gently, and often lowered, and skirts were set in motion by pleats, gathers, or the bias cut that formerly had appeared only in the evening. Now it ranged freely from day dresses to suits, and walking was a pleasure again. Sleeves were wider and shorter but as soft and fluid, and skirts, never stiffened. Fashion had begun to relax, and this trend was universally welcomed.
Fashion colors rivaled flowers for brightness—hot pinks, oranges, and golds topped the list, with strong yellow and all kinds of blue not far behind. Many of the handsomest dresses combined two brilliant colors in a way that a few years earlier only Matisse would have dared to use. Prints appeared less often than solid, strong colors. Suits were, for the most part, more muted than dresses in their hues; beige; gray, subtle checks, and tweeds abounded, and a new color, chamois, established itself as a fresh neutral. Suit news was in the softer, easier cut (some suits resembled two-piece dresses) and their newly flung skirts. Bias cutting appeared often. One gray wool suit, by John Moore of Talmack, really a jumper with its own white silk blouse and sheltering jacket, had a lowered waist-line that tapered to a V in front and a bias-cut skirt that flowed gently from there. Another, more formal suit in chamois silk, by David Kidd of Jablow, had a wide collarless neck, funnel sleeves, and a gentled, slim skirt. Underneath the jacket, a sleeveless chamois silk blouse was speckled with tiny black dots. Kidd also turned out one of the hand-somest coats of spring, a tunic-length, tunic-like, off-white wool, pared away at the neck and seamed in an arc from the tip of the sleeve up over the bosom and straight down to the hem. Buttoned and skirted in black, it made one of the smashing costumes of the spring and would continue to do the same in the fall.
For late-day dressing, the strongly colored silks were sure-fire; and prints, often nonfloral, when they did appear, were abandoned in their coloring, as well as their size. Donald Brooks's python print, for example, appeared on silk or on chiffon; in shades of coral and brick red or in a range from yellow through gold, it was simply a blown-up reproduction of a cobra skin. It showed signs of lasting as long and in as many versions as the leopard print started by Norman Norell in the Forties. Other prints, usually larger-than-life, were especially handsome on the outsized, floppy, kimono sleeves of the new late-day silks.
As the summer wore on, strong colors held their own, as did the soft silk dress in strident colors. The bikini, almost always a closed subject in America, was reopened with some success. Fashion editors warmly recommended, however, that bikinis be reserved for private pools, and, for the most part, their advice was followed.
In midsummer, after the Presidential candidates had been nominated, a great deal of heat was generated over their wives' clothes and personal style. Pat Nixon, 48, true to her party, was a conservatively dressed, nice-looking woman. Jacqueline Kennedy was another matter entirely—just turned 31, she had dash and possessed a model figure plus a genuine instinct for fashion. Mrs. Kennedy was criticized for buying some of her clothes in Paris and for her free-wheeling hairdo, Mrs. Nixon for buying ultra-expensive clothes at Elizabeth Arden. The issues were finally resolved; Pat Nixon's ward-robe expenses were explained, and Jacqueline Kennedy tamed her hairdo slightly and revealed that she usually wore American-designed clothes (one of her favorite designers was Norman Norell). With the Kennedy election victory, elated American designers and dress manufacturers prophesied that Mrs. Kennedy would set new fashion trends that were sure to be widely copied. For her Inaugural Ball gown, Mrs. Kennedy commissioned Bergdorf Goodman, New York City, to make up a design based on her own original sketches.
By fall, everyone hungered for news of what was to be. From Paris and New York came remarkably unanimous agreement about the look—very Twenties, with short, almost shingled hair (in Paris, it actually was shingled); cloches or big-domed hats without brims; sheathy, almost waistless dresses cut off at the knees; and lower-heeled, more man-tailored shoes.
Norman Norell had forecast the trend with the showing of his fall collection, in which the models shingled their hair, wore clown-white make-up and charcoal-shaded lids, and slithered about in his distinctly flapper dresses—beaded tubes for night, wool or jersey shifts for day. The hottest news in the fall fashion picture was made by Norell's culotted suits. The culottes were cut so shrewdly that their nature became apparent only in motion; they were slim rather than full and fell straight from the hips. Many of America's most distinctive fashion personalities took to them as being more suitable (and ladylike) for hopping in and out of cars, buses, and pedestrian traffic than the tight, slim skirts of yore, and lesser designers copied them, often not quite as successfully as the master. In fact, Norell felt so strongly about the proper cut and hang that he offered to lend his pattern free to any designers who wished to make use of it, an unprecedented action in the fashion world.
Norell showed culottes either as the skirt for his tailored-to-the-nines suits, or under equally tailored shirts worn tunic fashion outside the skirt. Outstanding among the suits was a dark-gray flannel with a slightly standoffish, rounded collar on a hip-length jacket belted smartly at the waist in black alligator.
Coats were often capes, as Zuckerman had forecast in the spring. The belted trench coat in tweed or flannel had been replaced by free-falling coats, often collarless. What the collars had supplied in the form of warmth was easily compensated for by the stoles accompanying many of these new coats. One of the handsomest of the collarless coats came without a stole, but a great deal of dash was supplied by its fabric, a gigantic black-and-white Glen plaid tweed; and by its cut—it was yoked high under the shoulder blades, had wide, free-falling sleeves and an easy front. It was by Gustave Tassell, one of the most talented of the new California designers. Another of the great young designers, Jacques Tiffeau, designed a columnar coat of enormous black-and-white houndstooth checks, double-buttoned down the front and as slim as possible below the slightly widened shoulders.
Fur coats were not neglected. Although few fur designers dared let a fur coat out of their doors without a collar, one did—Alfred Rainer designed a black mink coat, slim as a reed; the skins worked horizontally and fastened by three tiny black satin bows. There was no collar—only a ring of mink to begin the circle at the top. Some suits, too, were collarless and equipped with a muffling stole—one such, by Jablow, was black-and-white checked wool bound with the same wool, then bound up again by a long, fringed stole in the same checks.
Fur hats were required, and if one could not afford mink, then opossum, fox, or Mongolian goat (a great favorite in Paris, but hard to come by in America) were equally fashionable. The hat had to be high, domed, and just about covering the hair. For once, hairdressers and milliners were in agreement. The hair was either long and twisted up in a French knot or—more popular, much more fashionable, and much easier to care for—it was cut short (just ear-lobe length) and waved (not curled) , with tendrils winding up on each cheek, Twenties style.
Day dresses were pleasantly supple sheaths, often in bright colors, for the rage for color had persisted from the spring. Although the colors were more muted for fall, they were still fairly bright. Purple replaced brown at the top of the fashion list, followed by all the dethroned browns and some rather bold colors. Norell stuck to color for his handsomest suits and coats—indeed, they owed some of their dash to high color. A stunning example was his purple wool suit faced and bloused in crimson jersey.
For fall evenings, color still abounded. It was outdone only by glitter—for the beaded sheath was in with a vengeance and was seen in such topflight collections as Norell's (where it had appeared for years and was considered a classic by now), as well as in lower-echelon collections, where it was eased up a bit for less-than-model proportions. None of these sheaths was inexpensive, since every paillette had to be sewn on by hand. The Norell favorites ranged in color from bright red through silver to gold to Paisley and were priced at ca. $2,000. Less expensive versions by other designers were seen at prices from $350 to $95. Short versions of the beaded dress were seen also—some were two-piece, almost unfitted; some, like Mollie Parnis' bare-backed, black, bugle-bead sheath, were spare and closely fitted.
With all these jewels sewn onto afterdark dresses, additional jewelry usually seemed superfluous. Ear-rings, usually rhinestone or rhinestone with another, colored stone, were the favored evening jewelry. In the daytime, long gold chains and button earrings prevailed. Often no jewelry was worn on daytime clothes at all, a holdover from the spring craze for the bare look; earrings alone were enough, or one striking pin (usually fake). Most make-up was not as extreme as that seen in the Norell collection, but complexions were encouraged to look as pale as was naturally possible, while eye make-up and lipstick were darker than before. Fake eyelashes, once the exclusive property of models and actresses, were available to all over the cosmetic counter and were used most often for evening.
Gloves grew longer to meet shortened, widened sleeves; the best-loved were still glace kids with no detailing. Bags were slightly smaller and quite luxurious; the handsomest were alligator or lizard in classic shapes, often hung from golden chains. Shoes never matched the bag—alligator and lizard went well together, as did pin seal and alligator. For evening, the pump was still the thing; often it, too, wore added glitter via application of beads or rhinestones. For late-day, with the little black, purple, hot pink, or mauve dresses that abounded in luxurious fabrics (brocade and satin were favorites), shoes matched the dress, or better yet, were a subtle variation on the dress color. Fluffy after-five hats of maline or veiling supplied the finishing touch for an effect that was meltingly feminine.
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How To Style: Crop Tops At Any Age
July 21, 2014 by admin
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There really isn't any big secret to wearing a crop top after having kids. All it takes is a little confidence and the right balance. last year I tried a crop top with a high waisted skirt and a white blazer (click here to see the entire post). The skirt and crop top were sexy and the blazer gave it a conservative touch – the perfect balance. This isn't my day at the park outfit but it's definitely a date night outfit. Below are some tips on how to rock the trend effortlessly.
If you feel sexy you will look sexy. It's that simple. The key is to own it! I have a belly and lots and lots of stretch marks after having babies, but life is too short to deny myself the clothes I love and want to wear. Below is the perfect example of a crop top with class!
By balance I mean that if you plan on rocking a crop top make sure your bottoms are on point and choose a crop top that falls at your natural waist. High waisted bottoms are prefered because they fall at the smallest part of your waist and in return expose a tiny bit of that area. See Kim Kardashian, the crop top poster girl below.
If in doubt or out with the kids…layer! Layering is fun and has no limitations. Try a lose crop top over a white button down, a long lean tank or even over a dress.
Always Stay Simple
Avoid prints and loud colors and/or excessive accessorizing. Instead go neutral with beige, white, black or gray and keep accessories minimal. The idea is to look effortless and Kim Kardashian again is a perfect example of how to keep it simple.
Go Monochromatic
One of the easiet ways to wear a crop top is by wearing a head to toe color – black crop top and black pencil skirt – then try a white blazer over the crop top. It will draw the eye to the tiniest part of your waist. Try it. You'll thank me later!


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BMW has released new videos of their latest super duper bike: S 1000 RR. The super beemer has the most horsepower and best power-to-weight ratio of all 1000 cc bikes available for the consumers. Some of you might have read our previous articles on the S 1000 RR Superbike, but in case you haven't, here is a short recap.
BMW S 1000 RR Superbike is powered by a brand new water-cooled four-cylinder inline power unit which outputs 193 horsepower at 13,000 rpm and revving up to a maximum speed of 14,200 rpm. Maximum torque of 82.5 lb-ft of torque comes at 9,750 rpm, while only weighing 455.3 pounds with a full tank of gas. All engine components are compact and light, limiting weight of the overall engine without ancillaries to 59.8 kg (131.8 lb).
BMW S 1000 RR can be equipped with ABS and Dynamic Traction Control systems. As a curiosity, the ABS system weighs only 5.51 lbs. The new S 1000 RR is the lightest machine of its caliber displacing 999 cc and featuring ABS brakes.
Optional features include Optional DTC Dynamic Traction Control in conjunction with Race ABS for optimum performance.
Oh…almost forgot about the asymmetrical headlights which drives crazy some of the beemer fans, even though we kinda dig it.