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58 thoughts on "On Having Big Baps"
Big boobs aren't discussed enough — I mean, by people who possess them and need to navigate all aspects of their lives from behind them — and one of my hobbyhorses about big boobs is sports bras. I sincerely believe sports bras, specifically the sheer price of them, has a real impact on the uptake of sport of young girls, which obviously has a follow-on effect for older women, and that their need is most acute for those most in need of scaffolding in high-octane pursuits (i.e. the well-endowed). I hated PE, and a very real part of that hate went with the fact that, along with my general sports inability and lack of enthusiasm my breasts were flolloping around for all to see (and, of course, for all to comment on). Even now, when I can see the point of regular exercise, a good sports bra is prohibitively expensive, even more so than the regular kind (which I wholeheartedly agree are overpriced and not sufficiently well served by the usual run of shops).
As someone with no breasts it was interesting to read your article. Although you make the valid (and dissertation worthy) point that there are no breasts on the catwalk, it is really very unusual to see your average woman walking down the street in those fashions anyway. The suggestion however that womens' magazines don't have breasts is not so true. Maybe they don't look like breasts compared to your lovely "baps" but they are usually a minumum size B but often a C. I'm an AAcup and am made to feel very abnormal for this. I am forced to buy my clothes in Topshop, H&M,etc (young people's shops) regardless of my own personal style because more elegant fashions don't cater towards women with nothing up top. I have always felt like this was an unfair twist of fate for all small chested people. Thanks to your article I now realise the window of acceptable boob size is even smaller than I had previously thought as it appears large-chested women are also made to feel abnormal. What sort of society is this that the majority of women are marginalised?! We should have an uprising.
This nearly made me cry as it's essentially my daily rant. 30GG people. 30GG. Layering is my friend, halternecks are out and anything made with a 'boob' area also out. Zip up things – out. Pretty flimsy things – out. Bras that start at £35 (and matching knickers for at least £20), massive discomfort and my boobs being as unanimously everyone else's property in the same way a pregnancy bump is – very much in.
I even eat lots of eggs too.
Thanks for this.x
FINALLY. My relationship with my breasts would be defined by Facebook as 'complicated' at best. This article sums up exactly how I feel about them and WHY I feel that way. My 'funbags' (very misleading name) are not fun. They are shit. I don't want it pointed out I have big boobs all the time, I'm aware of that cheers. And when people use it as my defining feature, I get so angry. AND WHY, WHY, WHY do men assume if you're 'blessed' with large bazoomas, you must be up for it 24/7? I'm not. I just want to read a book. STOP HARASSING ME. Thank you so much for this article.
you are not alone, and not in the slightest mental… well not more than me anyway….
I wore bras two sizes too small until the age of 27, through pure denial (an actual D or DD). I love minimisers because they stop my boobs from bouncing when I walk, because if they do move, not only is it ridiculously uncomfortable, but it makes me feel hugely exposed and self-conscious – like I am asking for attention that I don't actually want.
I have recently got better at actually having a cleavage, and on rare occasions I dress to show it… however people seem to think that if you have breasts you should want to show them all the time – as if breast directed attention has ever turned out to be a positive thing!!!
Also, bra-shopping. Hate it. M&S have frequently told me 'oh that's a popular size so we have run out' – newsflash, if its a popular size, have more stock…. I hate lace and padding- I have boobs, so I don't want to buy an extra pair in my bra… I don't wear sexy or lacy outer clothes, so why the fuck should I have to buy lacy underwear? The choice basically seems to be between sexy, or downright ugly (or ridiculously expensive)… but I shall stop there, as that is a whole other rant…
The only thing I don't like about my bazookas? Not being able to sleep on my front without having to shift them to one side first. Oh and I can't run without blacking my eyes, but running is very bad for the knees anyway.
Apart from that, I love them. And the shapes they make. And the fact I can store stuff down there: last night they provided a handy stashing place for my lighter and fag (unlit).
All hail the Mighty Boob.
There's barely room in my bra for my boobs let alone anything else! Bravissimo are great at finding bras but don't expect to breathe for a few months after! My boobs are the one part of my body I'd change tomorrow if I had the money etc.
Saying that, it's awesome you love yours
Hi S.P. It is not merely that fashion magazines don't cater for those of us with Big Baps, but also that ordinary clothes don't fit properly at all. Whereas you are restricted to the Aisles of The Younger persons store in order to get something to fit, I who have normal sized Arms, waist and hips have to get all tops in 2/3 sizes too big for the rest of me to fit around my boobs. Leaving everything I possess falling off my shoulders or making me look frumpy and overweight because it's enormous.
We should open a fashionline for those outside the "norm" in all departments as a way to start our uprising
If only womens' clothes shops could cater for, yknow, women. S.P- find the smallboobed perspective fascinating, it's ridiculous any of us should be made to feel abnormal for something that, as we all know, differs massively from women to women. Boobs are a bit like snowflakes (poetic) and Topshop, H&M etc don't reflect this.
Let's rise up. As one boob. A uniboob.
I disagree. Big boobs are constantly discussed; theyre in the papers (page 3, celebrities, constant bra ranges only dedicated for those with DD+). When are small breasted women in the spotlight? And by small, I mean A cup roughly. I can't buy most pretty bras…because they are only in a B upwards, or specifically created for D+. If I want a bra in my accurate size (28A), I have to head to M&S Angel bras, which aren't exactly the sexiest creations. So I completely disagree with the sentiment that bigger breasted women do not have a good selection of underwear; there are essentially none for those that are relatively small.
'When are small breasted women in the spotlight?'
In like, every fashion magazine shoot EVER. Most clothes are designed for women with small breasts, so that they hang off the body's frame.
I have small boobs, and often go braless. I consider it a privilege that not many women have. Though that's not to say that being flat-chested doesn't have its problems either, though x
Thank you very much for this. I'm also cursed with the blessing of big boobs (32G) and though I've very much decided to LOVE MY BODY because it is amazing, and deserves my love unconditionally, I do hate the way other people react to my boobs. I hate that my boobs are apparently 'sexy' at all times, regardless to how I'm feeling myself ("Hey sexy lady…"). I hate that people notice my chest before they notice my smile or my frown or my sparkling wit. I hate that I have to spend £30 at least to make my boobs comfortable. I hate that every time I've talked myself into having the courage to wear nice cool clothes that I like to wear in the summer, some wanker comes along and makes me feel like I'm giving a free public lap dance. I hate that when I dress conservatively I look like a matron. I hate that nothing fits me properly and that when I was a teenager I couldn't wear cool stuff to school discos. I hate that when I was a schoolgirl I had far far too many instances of verbal sexual abuse directed at my chest, and that before I'd turned 13 I'd got used to this and learnt to ignore men four times my age leering and commenting. I don't blame my boobs for this. I blame Cosmo, and Glamour, and The Sun, and FHM, and PlayBoy, and The Daily Mail, and the Tories, and chick-lit. And I really hope one day we can beat it because I hate to think my potential daughters might inherit my genes and get treated the way I have been because of how my body looks.
'I don't blame my boobs for this. I blame Cosmo, and Glamour, and The Sun, and FHM, and PlayBoy, and The Daily Mail, and the Tories, and chick-lit'
HURRAH! Great comment Alice x
It also confuses me that if I moan about how my boobs are treated, most of my female friends say things like "but you're lucky- they're sexy!". My point is that women should get to choose WHEN to be sexy rather than having sexy involuntarily attached to their chest at all times.
And, I'd go as far to argue that we should also choose WHAT is sexy. We've been taught that massive boobs are sexy. They can be… but so can teeny boobs. Or hairy legs. Or a PhD, or a sense of humour, or a love of cats, or being able to impersonate Poirot…
This article particularly resonated today as this weekend I tried to buy a bikini for my upcoming holiday. Jesus. Christ. I know I left it late so there's just scraps on the sale rail but there is no way what I've got is going to fit in *that*. I did eventually find something which will hopefully keep them strapped in while I'm in the sea.
The bikini buying is just one small nuisance though. I agree with everything Painted Alice has said above, except that I didn't have this problem when I was a teenager. My massive tits are relatively new phenomena (I blame the pill, I guess?), and I often feel like I've had my sense of style wrenched away from me as most of my t-shirts and dresses have become inappropriate for day-wear. A bra flash in a meeting with my supervisor is almost as skin-crawlingly awkward as that pervy guy on the bus. And it's really been quite unsettling as I thought that finally, in my early twenties, I had that dressing myself so that I'm comfortable and confident thing down. Ah well.
LOVE this Alice. And totally agree. Everyone should be friends with their own boobs! REJOICE.
I always liked my 32E wabs until I had children and breastfed. Now they're all saggy (the boobs, not the children). I'm sure there's less sagging in smaller breasts – anyone able to confirm this?
What the hell is wrong with you all? You can get a perfectly good selection of bras in M&S for under £20. I love my 32Gs and always have, even though they're a nuisance to a sporty person like me. Yes, it's a pain to have to pay £30 for a sports bra, but they're just part of me. They make sex more enjoyable – yes, to me. Probably to him as well. Lucky him.
Wow, if you can buy 32Gs in what I assume is a mid-range department store for that cheap over in the UK, I might have to move there. Here in the US, to get something that fits my 34G/Hs, I have to pay $70 at a specialty store, or stalk ebay.
What I find interesting is that different people 'wear' their boobs differently. People are shocked to hear my size and say they don't look that big at all, and in high school my 34Cs made me 'the flat one' in our group. But I know some people on whom 34C is enormous-looking.
A very nosey question, and I understand if you don't wish to discuss, but: you say your size makes sex more enjoyable for you. What exactly are you doing with them that benefits you? I'd love to learn some tricks that would make these damn things worth the trouble.
I'm a 32DD/32E and find Marks and Spencers actually do a rather nice line in bras for large-boobed women (yes, really). They're often marked down in the sales and you can honestly get them for £5 each. This was a revelation to me.
I used to wear a 30AA or AAA. It was still much easy enough to find small bras at ok prices in M&S or H&M or I could wear camisoles and those vests with the boob areas or just no bra at all. (Yes, I did feel a bit left out and unwomanly with my pancake tits and practically prehensile nipples, but there were choices.)
Then I hit a late puberty and in the space of 8 months went up to a 34E. I missed the 4 week window of being the perfect B/C cup because I was freaking out about being invaded by breasts. Now I hover round a 34DD because I can still get bras for a fiver in Primark at that but not an E and I'll take the slight discomfort and keep the cash. I do adore Bravissimo and like to go in and have my boobs admired and dressed up like cute puppies to remind me that personally I look better with them than without even though I dream of being an AA again and looking like a clothes hanger.
I have the wonderful combination of being big boobed AND small backed. I'm a 28E which, if shops and underwear brands are anything to go buy, effectively means I DON'T EXIST. Trying to find my size is like some horrendous treasure hunt, where all the small backed, big boobed ladies are racing to get the few 28Es which exist in the world. And when you do find it, there are no matching knickers in the right size… why does that always happen?!
Thank you, thank you for this article, at long last someone else that feels the same way! I got my boobs when I was 9, I thought Mother Nature was having a sick joke at my expense and that I'd managed to get Mumps twice – only the second time I got CHEST MUMPS! No sick joke alas and I am now the frustrated owner of 36DD tits. Due to my budget I have real trouble finding something that doesn't look like a colourful version of the Mitchell brothers – with padding. PADDING! Did the manufacturers not see the 'DD' bit? FFS – who thought I would like padding as well? Can women with boobs have a choice over whether their boobs stick out an extra centimetre like I am wearing two mixing bowls under my jumper? The ones without padding tend to be constructed a lot more 'old lady-girdle stylee' and look unsexy and feel like you've bandaged your breasts to you, which admittedly is part of the appeal but the ability to breath is a preferable option to me.
Personally I like a good foundation of wearing sexy/lucky underwear, most of the time not matching (tell the Daily Mail I am rebelling against the 'handbag gang' I won't care). It should enhance what I wear on top of it not be fighting for dominance; good fitting, nice looking underwear can give me a boost and make me feel awesome and confident. I especially like wearing my most sexy under garments if I go for a job interview. Most of the time I would just like to be supported WITHOUT PADDING or looking like I am wearing a surgical truss, but please not so freaking flimsy that you can use my nipples as a thermostat – because when a bloke looks at my chest as if hypnotised by my nipples and says "you cold?", he takes offence when I squint at his crotch for longer than is comfortable for both of us and reply "not as cold as you are apparently", which whilst being a good put down also demeans both of us and propagates the old wives tale of women preferring larger dicks! GAH! Do you see what you do to us underwear designers, do you see? Plus would it kill you to do a few more front closing ones for those of us without double-jointed elbows?
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest (pun intended) I am madly in love with the Vagenda – you guys rock my world!
You're amazing and brilliant. I loved this. Ten years ago in Australia (to the day, in fact) I had my giant, unknown sized boobs taken off on the operating table. I say 'unsized' because I never did find a bra that would fit them in. I'm now a 30G. I'm a lot happier now without The Girls. I can workout, I have a lot less Trouble from men I encounter and I can buy clothes off a rack without spending crazy money and then doubling that at the tailor for alterations. However, it does make me sad that I had to go to such extremes to get to that point. Why should I spend the better part of ten thousand dollars and go through so much pain and be left with scars just to feel 'normal'?
My mother told me this weekend that she wants to go for a breast reduction because she can't fit into half her clothes anymore, she's sick of having to buy clothes two sizes to big and she can't shop at any of her favourite stores. She's sad that besides only being 50, she has to dress like she's 70. She's annoyed that she has to go to boutiques to find swimsuits with built in support. She hates summer and trying to bra which doesn't make her sweat. Most of all, she quite simply doesn't feel sexy…
I grew up super skinny and "boyish" and have only recently learnt to love my boobs now that I've filled out a bit. My mother told me that she is glad that my sister and I inherited our boobs from my dad's side of the family (considerably smaller).
It is sad and unfair that a mother can be glad her children didn't inherit something so womenly from her, just because society can't seem to cater to her needs. It is shocking that she is happier that I didn't inherit her boobs than she is that I didn't inherit her bad eyesight. What the #@&*.
I've thought this for a long time! I have had large boobs since I was 11. Not the best as a pre-teen and then self-conscious teenager. But I find now that I'm 25 I'm pretty much at ease with them. I'm a 32 F and have found that places like M&S and Debenhams have come on leaps and bounds in providing bras above a D cup for me to wear. I used to have to shop in specialist shops but now I can generally go and buy what I want, provided it's a bigger shop. I do wish there were models photographed in the bras that had breasts bigger than satsumas though I have to say. And sometimes you do have to wander into the corner of the shop to a specially labelled stand. God forbid the bigger bras would just be in with the rest of them. Bikini shopping is a nightmare and I generally can't wear things that are ultra fashionable and often they can make me feel frumpy and fat. It is an odd thing that having large breasts and an 'hourglass' shape is supposedly such a positive thing, apparently i am 'lucky' (and don't get me started on gok wan) and i'm told i can wear 'anything'. Not true. Designers do not cut clothes for women with breasts and hips but can you do? It could be worse!
Being a size 8, with 30E breasts since I was 16 (now 18)? Not easy. It's not the underwear- it's getting the clothes to go on the outside, without feeling like I'm showing too much or feeling ridiculously uncomfortable. I do agree with the above that both Debenhams and M&S do great bras in sales for the larger-boobed- definitely check them out if you're struggling to find things. As for sport underwear or swimwear, that's a nightmare. Designers seem insistent that no one actually wears them for sport, 'cause obviously big-titted women don't do sport (implication that if you a) have breasts, you're not into sport b) have breasts, you're fat, and therefore not into sport, because only lithe, skinny girls who haven't realised they're women yet play sport, right?) meant that I used to have to actually add extra stitching as reinforcement to my sports bra, so that it wasn't painful when I played rugby.
Really? M&S carries, I believe, two bras in my size (38H in UK sizing, but 38J in their own-brand sizing system, which runs small). And they're both hideous. For medium-large breasts (usually up to a G-cup), I guess M&S are fine. But most of my bras come from Bravissimo and Figleaves for at least £25 a pop, and women with even larger cup sizes than mine are in even more of a predicament.
That said, Debenhams do a pretty excellent range of large-cup lingerie for very cheap – usually bras for £15 and matching knickers for £6 or so.
I feel like I should leave this here… Very recognizable, and funny, to boot – like this post, really
I had to read this for certain personal connections. It's so refreshing to hear some one speak like this, even if it is a result from a mindless society who are unable to think for themselves. It amazes me people in their millions read OK/heat/now (especially pages 42-150) as a guideline on how to live, forgetting the simple fact that each and every one of us is a genetic fuck-up/mutation/devine creation that is each more unique than the last.
But as I say to hear a voice from within that masses sit there and shout 'THIS IS BOLLOCK' I like a lot, especially someone who is a fairly gawky, slightly anxious, awkward and romantic, bookperson.
This is however not a one sided coin, and I feel for the guy in the shop downstairs, unable to break the mindset that has been battered into him through pages of crap in Nuts/FHM/Esquire. Sadly he's not like you. He doesn't think from himself, all he see's is 'woman' not 'person' and reacts in a similar manner to that he does when gormlessly reading his 'lads' mag, because god forbid he could ever seen not to be 'manly'.
Anyway, I'm glad someone else is fed up of this. Regarding the shopping, I have no place to comment I tend not to buy women's underwear, the though of dressing my girlfriend makes me feel incredibly uneasy, almost as if she were a christmas tree; but the imagery of society and how a select few are chosen and idolised in terms of lifestyle and looks, how can that ever work for the masses, only a-sexual reproduction could cope with a social pressures like that, maybe we should export ok magazine and it's principles to fungus and bacteria, as these seem the only societies that fit their 'mould'.
Ed – a 'bloke' who loves his girlfriend's breast's as much as her crusty old women elbows and her wonky little toe.
Thank you for this article. Thank you a lot a lot a lot. You made me laugh, but more than anything, it's amazing to have another woman vocalize what I go through everyday. As a 30FF myself, I know how unexpectedly depressing it is to have to find clothes that explicitly don't 'make the most' of my body. I feel so angry at my own tits when men feel it's their right to comment on me. Worse, when they swell up and become sore on my period, making me hyper-aware of their big bouncy presence.
I love and hate my boobs in equal parts. The ability to turn them off and on would be incredible. Off: Walking down the street, hot days, sport, running. On: Sexytimes, parties.
And if another fucking 'fashionista' tells me to wear V-necks and wrap dresses, my boobs may explode.
Thank you. You made me feel… if not better, understood.
Another bad shape to be for clothes is if you're pretty chunky but with tiny boobs. It's practically impossible to find a dress that fits the rest of me without having a load of extra material sagging open to show everyone my bra.
I am genuinely so happy for all these comments thankyou SO MUCH- whenever I brought the topic up with friends I always got the sarcastic "oh yeah how AWFUL to have BIG BOOBS" response which drives me insane. To be honest, I expected more of those here.
I think it helps to know that quite a few women feel like this, it's not our fault and hey, if we cant turn them on and off, let's be best friends with them.
What I'm saying is, we need to metaphorically join boobs and rejoice. While burning down the Topshop lingerie department.
-SM x
God it's terrible you had to go through that to feel 'normal'- what the hell is normal anyway? Well, we say that, but simultaneously can't help absorbing what we're told. One day… one day…
But total boobfive to you for doing something positive that made you feel better and happier… nothing ever wrong with that!
Cheers to you and your Girls. And this comment was much appreciated, I'm really glad you liked the article!! x
OMG so much of this article resonates with me. I'm a 28GG which isn't too horrendous on the clothes front but still has it's pains with bras, swimwear, sleeping and exercise… The thing that I think really doesn't help the perception of bigger boobs in society is the complete misconceptions about bra sizing. A DD cup isn't necessarily huge, the back size determines that and you can have a 28 back without being a child and a 40 back without being overweight. If all women were fitted properly I think a lot of the problems would go and 36C would definitely not be the average UK size.
Thankfully there does seem to be some brands who are doing a wonderful job for catering for bigger boobed ladies. There's Curvy Kate who do great underwear and use normal models. And for clothes definitely check out BiuBiu, it's a Polish company but they basically do clothes that incorporate bust size. A bit like Bravissimo but a lot cheaper and nicer. Places like these help me keep the faith when I'm in tears because of back pain and wishing for a reduction!
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That's awful that your poor mum feels that way. I hate it that breasts are seen as these things we can stick on or chop off if they don't fit. Your mum needs a tailor to alter her clothes, not a surgeon to alter her body! I've got short legs but I get my trousers taken up, I don't get my legs extended like Jude Law in that film Gattaca…
"big boobs are constantly discussed" – right! and it makes big-boobed women feel like freaks! And it makes small-boobed women feel like freaks too! What a friggin' nightmare this all is!
I relate to this article A LOT. The term 'boobperson' is spot on; thankfully I've started to deal with it better now, but from the ages of about 14-19 I felt like a pair of boobs with a bit of person trailing behind them.
But at the same time I've had friends who've been jealous (and of course I was jealous back). They had just as much awkwardness and trauma as me because they felt like their boobs were too small.
It's a pretty shitty situation whichever side you land on. Which is great for magazines right, because they can keep selling us promises of what clothes will 'flatter' our freakish giant/tiny boobs, alongside 'agony' articles telling us 'it really doesn't matter what your boobs look like, honest, even those mini/massive/lopsided freak boobs are just fine, probably' and adverts telling us that if we get boob surgery everything will be perfect.
Love the article – hilarious and very true -, love the comments – full of insights and very accurate. I'll just say that, even if buying bras can be tedious for the boobily voluminous (although if you think having big boobs is tough in the UK, try finding 30F bras on the continent – non, merci, nous n'avons pas de gros baps ici) and getting dresses to fit correctly can be a pain; I. Love. My. Breasts. They are awesome orbs of outstanding sensual beauty. Magazines haven't told me they are nor models or tabloids, I just think they're bloody great. I do hope every woman can feel for their girls the elation I feel for mine, as every boob is a miracle.
this has been an interesting insight into something I know nothing of – but doesn't heredity play capricious tricks on us all ? I got a big nose, insufferable arrogance and depression. In the past I've been told off by women for seeing any complaint as something to be fixed when really they just want to have a whinge and be listened to. I'm accepting that, effectively, nearly everyone is hard on women, but my question is, who's gonna fix it ?
Brill article steve, loved it. Glad to see the passion you have for such matters but also that you haven't lost your amazing comical touch. miss you lots alice
(sorry to do this here but i have lost your number, text me please)
Amen to that! My friends think that I have big boobs, and in comparison to their inevitably skinny frames I do, but in proportion to my own body, they're actually undersized (size 16 – 38D). I too often end up with great big sags of gaping material around the chest area. Despite this, anything with a cup size of D seems to be considered up the plus end of the spectrum, despite this being positively tiny next to the whoppers being discussed in these comments. Is there anybody who wins?!? Sort it out, shops!
oh my god, yes. There is some sort of collective hallucination in UK highstreet stores that boobs over a DD don't exist. The result of this is that most of us are wearing the wrong size, which is just silly. Following the Bravissimo (UGH to that name) revelation, I have to buy bras on the internet, like they're some sort of creepy clandestine habit I must conceal from my neighbours. BE BRAVE M&S! Acknowledge there's such a thing as the F cup!
I don't see why the fact that there's no options for the small boobed means there are for the large boobed? (There's too many 'boobed' in this post already). Trust me, bigger breasted women do not have a good selection of underwear! Try searching for a 30 FF. ANYWHERE.
It sounds like both 'ends' of the spectrum, by which I mean, pretty much everyone who doesn't happen to be a B-D cup, is being left out!
I am also a 30GG… try being 30GG and a student. I only own two bras considering the price. I also recently had to pay £45 for a tankini top. I understand 30GG in itself is probably quite a rare size, but is being D+ really THAT rare that you have to go to expensive-ass specialist shops… REALLY?
I hear what you're saying, SP, and I believe the fashion industry is out to get all women of all sizes. I'm big boobed and have to shop at McHugeBoobs for my undergarments as well as the rest of my clothes because the other shops only go to a size 14, a 16 if we're lucky. Sadly at McHugeBoobs I don't win out there because my inseam is 27″ and apparently you can only be a "curvy" fashionable girl if you're at least 5 foot 7 inches. So every pair of pants I purchase must be hemmed (they don't carry lengths).
It's all ridiculous. I'd like to buy some nice work clothes that don't cost an arm and a leg, that don't have to be hemmed or tucked, and look all flouncy flouncy liek the other women in my office. But I'm the only in my office with boobs! Literally, the only woman in my office with boobs. Its frustrating that I can't find cute clothes like the ones they wear.
So I think, SP, we're all in the same boat. Rock your AAcup boobs, sister! We should all have access to the same clothes!
32DD never thought they were that big until now……… only downside was expensive bras, and NOT BEING ABLE TO WEAR TOPSHOP DRESSES. Not quite sure what to take from this article! I love my boobs! They suit my frame, aannnnnddd look good when I dress them up. They aren't out of place on me I think; but unfortunately I know this isn't the case for many.
Swimwear……. size 6 bottoms (I have rather boney hips ok) and size16/18 tops Become a joke between me and the girlies now about the dilemmas of being size 8 but need 10′s/12′s and in some distressing moments, in some shops, size 14. Sweet jesus.
eBay, people. And shops like Brastop. DD is really not that big a deal, there are a number of brands selling gorgeous bras for anything up to K cup or thereabouts, and you can often buy them new for about £15 online. Don't think that eBay will be about second-hand, either: there are plenty of lingerie shops selling new stock there, with a massive discount because they don't have a shop front.
I've been a DD for most of my adult life, apart from when I put on weight for a few years and went up to a G or so. I never found it that big a deal, although it makes it a bit trickier hunting for clothes sometimes (though mostly that's because I'm only 4'11). Yes, I don't look like the models in magazines, but then no one does!
The part about 'labelling African countries' made me spit Diet Coke over the laptop: Hopefully you'll enjoy this one. For a bit of extra cash (she works hard for the money) me and my 32G's have started working a second job in a sweetshop on weekends.While reaching for jars over the till, my breasts land on the cash register. Mid-foray for 50 grams of sherbet lemons my wongas 'no-sale'the till and I get a drawer full of dusty ten-pence pieces straight into the rib cage. The cheery 'ping' sound and the subsequent windedness of the server has not once escaped the notice of the children and their social workers.
Thanks for this. Really funny and spot on! I am 34E and have a similarly conflict-filled relationship with my boobs. When I am at my worst I have even considered saving/getting a loan for a reduction, which is mental. It's really hard to buy clothes, they somehow make me look fat even though I'm not really, people…well men really, are always staring and they generally make life harder. I feel cumbersome, mumsy and unsexy. It does make me feel better to read that other ppl feel the same though and it also helps me when I see images of beautiful women with normal boobs, but I have to go looking for those because, as you rightly say, all the women in magazines are C cup or well below. Grrrrr…
Wow, such a variety of breast sizes out there! I have this idea in my head (thanks, society!) that everyone is roughly 32A-36DD, which obviously couldn't be farther from the truth! This article has made me feel better about my set (32B) since it definitely isn't hard to find bras in my size for reasonable prices. That said, I still see beautiful brands that stop at 34, and am bummed out and feel like they're saying I'm not a woman because my boobs aren't big enough.
This may be a silly question, but are bra sizes more or less the same on both sides of the Atlantic? I don't know anyone personally with anything over an E, and I wondered if that's because I don't know enough people, or because sizes are a bit different in England?
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A-mah-zing! You basically summed up how I feel about my boobs(28FF). I thought I was the only one.
The problem I have sometimes is that I have become an expert at hiding the "girls" that when I wear something slightly revealing it is brought to everyone's attention that I'm a boob-person, and my cover gets blown – then about half an hour of discussion and staring follow.
32GG here, I feel you No pretty swimsuits for me! I'm a student too destined to spend my uni life in a swimming costume 2 sizes too big and a bra my mum bought for me 4 years ago…
Bloody brilliant article. Brightened my day. Very true.
Thank you for this. I've never read anything that describes my relationship with my boobs so well. I'm sick of being told that I should be proud of them. They weren't a choice. In fact if I could have chosen I would have stopped with a nice C cup. I'm sick of other women being jealous of the attention I receive because of them. I'm sick of being told that I should be flattered that other people find me attractive. When strangers try to to stop me, touch me, give me hugs, make comments, etc, it's not flattering, it's unsettling.
That said, it is significantly easier in England to buy bras over size DD. Which surprised me. Maybe it's the part of America I live in (northeast) because we don't have as many people having breast enhancement surgery as say the Los Angeles area, but it is almost impossible for me to find bras in my size here. There is this assumption that if your breasts are larger than a DD, you must also be overweight, so you can find things like 38Gs much more easily than my 32FFs. So I wore the wrong bra size (36DD) until I studied abroad in London and suddenly there were multiple stores that carried sizes above a D. That was about a year ago and the bras I got there have worn out, so I've been hunting for months for a place to buy them in America. I discovered that basically zero stores actually stock bras in my size, I have to order them online. The problem with that is of course, you can't try them on and once you get above a D, sizes get really wonky. Some brands don't do "double" sizes, so DD=E and it throws off which size I need to buy. Some just decide to tack on Ds so you get weird sizes like 32DDDD which looks more like someone fell asleep on their keyboard than a bra size. So basically I decided that if I'm spending this much money on bras, I'm buying what I know fits me well and get the exact same bras I already own. This is when I discovered that I could pay $60 per bra and order them from the next town over, or pay $48/£30 per bra and order them from England. Then I only had to pay $12.75/£7.95 for shipping on the entire order (3 bras). It is absolutely ridiculous that the only way for me to buy reasonably affordable bras is to buy them from another country.
I'm a 32 GG in Australia, and there are no shops here at all -not one- that stock my size. I feel like I can't go anywhere because I don't have any bras that fit or clothes I feel confident in.
Here in Australia no store carries my size (32 GG). I settle for a size up in the back and down in the cups, and even that is hard to find and expensive, with no choice, no bright colours, nothing funky, fun and modern. I wish we had Bravissimo here! I get so depressed shopping for bras. Shopping implies choice.


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The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) investigates the distribution and abundance of Antarctica's marine biodiversity, how it is affected by climate change, and how change will alter the nature of the ecosystem services currently provided by the Southern Ocean for the benefit of mankind.
The CAML is a five-year project that will focus the attention of the public on the ice-bound oceans of Antarctica during the International Polar Year (IPY) in 2007/08. Its objective is to study the evolution of life in Antarctic waters, to determine how this has influenced the diversity of the present biota, and to use these observations to predict how it might respond to future change. The CAML will collaborate with biological oceanographers in its work, for at its heart lies the integrated nature of ecological and biological change.
Polar regions experience greater rates of climate change than elsewhere on the planet. The fauna of the regions are uniquely adapted to the extreme environments in which they exist, and may be vulnerable to shifts in climate. There is an urgent need to establish the state of these communities, and in particular their biodiversity, if we are to understand the impact of climate change. The project will integrate knowledge across all regions, biomes, habitats and fields of study to strengthen our knowledge of ecosystem dynamics in this high latitude, frozen ocean system. Only through a multi-scale level of investigation will a better understanding of the diversity and status of Antarctica's marine life be obtained.
The CAML's main biodiversity data will be collected from 17 research vessels during the IPY. In addition, tourist vessels will contribute observations and other ships will collect samples using the Continuous Plankton Recorder. The biodiversity data, collected as georeferenced species records, will available on the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research's Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN http://www.scarmarbin.be) for researchers, governments and others concerned with ocean management.
The CAML will leave legacy sites for future comparability studies. It will employ modern genomic techniques and contribute to the Barcode of Life project, integrating with other Census projects. In particular, the CAML will interact very strongly with the Arctic Ocean Diversity Project (ArcOD), drawing comparisons between differences in ecological structure and dynamics between the Arctic and Southern Oceans.


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http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story...a-city-thunderShould the Thunder go after free agent Steve Nash?
Now this would be special, wouldn't it? Can you imagine the league-wide terror of trying to stop the pairing of Nash and the league's top scorer in the halfcourt? Or how about Nash, Durant and Westbrook in the open court? Since the Thunder are capped out, that's just a pipedream, right?
It isn't and here's why: the Thunder could flip Harden (an Arizona State product, remember) to Phoenix in a sign-and-trade deal for Nash and Marcin Gortat. The Thunder have the contracts to make the money work (Kendrick Perkins and Daequan could be thrown in) and the Suns could get their young stud of the future without letting Nash go for nothing.
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Legacy of Phoenix boy inspires second annual 'Errands for Ethan' day
Ethan William Ellsworth of Phoenix may have been born with a malformation of veins in his brain, but his heart couldn't have been more perfect. Ethan's condition — arteriovenous malformation — was undetected until his brain suddenly hemorrhaged one night, sending the otherwise healthy and happy 7 1/2-year-old boy to the hospital for diagnosis and emergency surgery.
The crisis triggered several days of intense family faith, prayer and soul searching. When the doctors reported that nothing could be done to repair the damage, his parents made the most difficult decision of their lives — to remove their young hero from life support.
On March 26, 2011, they said a sacred goodbye.
For some families, the date might have marked the end of something wonderful and the beginning of the long, dark days of navigating the grey fog of grief. But for the Ellsworth family, the date sparked the beginning of a new opportunity to spread Ethan's spirit of service.
Ethan's parents, Marcus and Kim Ellsworth, have long believed in the immeasurable value of serving others and have raised their children in a culture of kindness. But it's not simply what they believe — it is who they are.
Even still, Ethan's death deepened that understanding. They quickly learned that while their beautiful son might not have been healed in this life, through serving others the family could collectively experience tremendous healing of a different kind.
In March 2012 as the one-year anniversary approached, the Ellsworth family pondered ways to remember their son and sibling and mark the tender date in a meaningful way. A friend suggested they perform random acts of kindness in his honor and invite the community to participate.
They chose to call it "Errands for Ethan" and hoped a handful of people might join their effort. With less than week to go before the anniversary, they used social media and their network of friends to spread the word. The Ellsworth's were confident a few would join the cause.
They couldn't have been more wrong.
By March 26, a Facebook event created to mark the big day boasted more than just a few. Twenty thousand people RSVP'd and committed to performing thousands of random acts of kindness in Ethan's memory. Some were so moved by the idea, they shared their service experiences on a website at errandsforethan.org designed for the special day.
In 2013, the family has their sights set even higher.
With just three weeks to go and buzz building for the second annual "Errands for Ethan" day, I asked Kim Ellsworth to share the greatest lesson her son left behind. I wondered, "Is it really just about random acts of kindness?"
"Yes, it is about helping others," she said. "But it's also the sense of forgetting yourself for others. We know the more we serve and give, the less we worry about ourselves."
Kim added that more than anything, Ethan would want each of us to know how much God loves us. "God knows us and wants us to be happy. If these little acts of kindness can help in any way, Ethan would want to share that."
"But," she continued, "these errands are not for him, they are for others to feel loved. Because everyone needs to know what love feels like."
Truer and more beautiful words have never been spoken: "Everyone needs to know what love feels like."
Perhaps most impressive about "Errands for Ethan" is the family's humble belief that they're not extraordinary or any more special than any other family that's lost a child. Kim describes themselves as just ordinary people with an ordinary child who suddenly left this life.
What makes their ordinary experience extraordinary, she believes, is the outpouring of love and comfort. "We want others to feel loved as much as we did in those days, weeks and months right after losing our son."
And what better way to make others feel loved than to serve them?
With March 26 and "Errand for Ethan" day approaching, the Ellsworth's invite everyone to perform an act of kindness in his memory, or in the memory of your own loved ones. And when March 27 arrives, perhaps our random acts of service will gather into a tidal wave that doesn't care what the calendar says.
Because everyone needs to know what love feels like.
For more information about "Errands for Ethan," visit errandsforethan.org or click here to RSVP for the "Errands for Ethan" Facebook event.


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Many children with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis who received treatment through ImproveCareNow, a national quality improvement and research network, ceased to have symptoms and no longer needed to take steroids for disease management. These are the findings from a study appearing in Pediatrics that examined the ImproveCareNow network's quality improvement efforts and their impact on outcomes. In this study, the proportion of children with Crohn's disease who were in remission increased from 55 percent to 68 percent, with a similar improvement in ulcerative colitis patients.
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, also called inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), are gastrointestinal disorders that lead to intestinal inflammation as a result of an overactive immune reaction. Despite therapeutic advances in the treatment of pediatric IBD, there has been limited improvement in outcomes over the last several decades.
"IBD management varies greatly throughout the country due to a lack of consensus on best practices and inadequate care delivery systems," said study author Wallace Crandall, MD, director of the Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Nationwide Children's Hospital, and ImproveCareNow physician leader. "Nationally, IBD patients receive differing diagnostic, treatment and nutritional interventions, suboptimal medication dosages, prolonged prescription of corticosteroids, and fail to receive steroid-sparing agents."
The ImproveCareNow Network was formed in 2007 to improve the care and outcomes of children with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. It has grown to include 33 centers with 300 gastroenterologists and 10,000 patients. The network developed a set of recommendations to standardize diagnosis and treatment, classify disease severity and evaluate nutritional and growth status. Participating centers implemented these standards for their IBD patients.
There is evidence to suggest that redesigning specific elements of chronic care delivery can improve quality and outcomes for patients. However, most of this work has taken place in adult primary care practices. "Few pediatric centers have enough patients to determine if changes in care delivery are making a difference," said co-author Peter Margolis MD, PhD, senior director of ImproveCareNow and director of Research at the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. "Networks of care centers, which have become increasingly popular in the past decade, are developing as an important avenue to accelerate improved outcomes and research in pediatrics."
Data were collected from six participating centers and included 1,188 children treated between July 2007 and April 2010. Findings showed improvements in specific care processes. The proportion of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis patients in remission increased; the percentage of Crohn's disease patients taking corticosteroids decreased.
"The improvement we observed took place over a relatively short period of time during which no new therapies were introduced into routine clinical practice," said co-author Michael Kappelman MD, MPH, assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "These results suggest that collaborative quality improvement methods focused on improving chronic illness care can lead to improved process and outcome measures in children with IBD." Dr Richard Colletti, Network director of ImproveCareNow and professor of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont, continued, "These improvements were likely the result of changes in the care delivery systems rather than a single specific intervention." Further study is needed to determine which combination of interventions is most important to improve the outcomes of these patients.
Dr. Crandall says that collaborative quality improvement methods focused on improving chronic illness care is likely to improve process and outcome measures in other chronic diseases as well. A significant investment of time and resources is required to participate, but "it's evident that redesigning specific elements of chronic care delivery has relevance to pediatric subspecialty care," said Dr. Crandall.


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Since we launched Google Apps for Business in 2007, we've been working hard to build a global support offering that's responsive to the needs of our business customers. In the early days, our customers reached us mainly through email, and our 24 x 7 phone support was limited to critical issues.
To improve the experience of our customers, we now provide 24 x 7 phone support to small, medium, and large Google Apps for Business customers for all issues affecting the core services. Our customers may also receive support through our web-based support portal, online help forms, and online help center. All support cases are handled directly by trained Google Apps experts.
A support metric that we're especially passionate about is customer satisfaction. We measure customer satisfaction by asking for feedback on a seven point scale at the time we close a support case. As measured on this scale, 80% of our business customers and 90% of our large business customers indicate that they're more than satisfied with their support experience. While we're proud of these ratings, we want to do even better. Our goal is to achieve an overall satisfaction rating of 95%.
One of our core values is delivering products that just work for our customers, so in addition to serving customers directly, our support team provides our product and engineering teams with input regarding the usability and quality of our products. This effort has led to SLA and uptime improvements, as well as enhancements such as unthreaded email and read receipts in Gmail, and a scheduled release process.
Brad Feld, Managing Director of Foundry Group recently said, "My firm has gone Google, but I encountered a problem with the Contacts feature. I reached out to Google Enterprise support and am very impressed with how they responded. They explained to me that they were working to address the issue, and when they were getting ready to roll out the solution, they circled back to tell me about it. Are they perfect? No, but they're very good, and I certainly got a positive impression when I interacted with the support team. I'm confident that they know what they're doing and that they'll keep getting better."
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With the March 5 election approaching, Los Angeles business owners, public safety officers, and politicians find themselves in debate mode as the city considers a sales tax increase to generate funding. Measure A, a proposition which would increase sales tax in Los Angeles county by .5%, is intended to help make up for an anticipated $216 million deficit.
Many current and outgoing officials, including current Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Police Chief Charlie Beck, are proponents of Measure A, and say that the sales tax increase could prevent crucial cuts to public safety funds. Opponents of the proposition argue that the tax hike may seem small, but it is enough to drive business out of Los Angeles and into neighboring cities with lower sales tax rates. Several of the candidates for mayor and other city council positions have spoken out against Measure A, saying that generating funds doesn't necessarily mean public safety cuts.
Could a .5% sales tax increase drive business out of Los Angeles? Would you travel to a neighboring city to make a significant purchase? If the sales tax increase doesn't pass, will there be cuts to public safety funding? How could that affect L.A. county's police force?
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E-Street Band sax player Clarence Clemons died Saturday after suffering a massive stroke last week. He was 69.
Jungleland, Thunder Road, Rosalita, Born to Run. Wow, Thanks for the memories Clarence. I remember seeing Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the old McNichols Arena back in the early 1980s. (Scalping tickets for $100 with my Olympic weightlifter boyfriend, who was from Jersey and first saw Bruce in the Jersey Shore bars.) I blew out the speakers on my old record player listening to Rosalita. Makes me smile even today. College dorm rooms booming with Bruce on the stereo with Clarence wailing on the sax.
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Lily On A Painted Table Too canvas print by Lucyna A M Green. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap). Your canvas print will be delivered to you "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Corner Detail: Stretched canvas print with 1.5" stretcher bars and mirrored image sides. Also available with black sides, whites sides, and 5/8" stretcher bars.
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The breath taking color, perfection and uniqueness painted on every bloom is captured in exquisite detail. Each floral portrait views its subject from a different perspective and makes still one moment of its flowering.
About Lucyna A M Green
Since moving from Minnesota, where everything goes dormant for 6 months out of the year, to Texas and then to Mexico Beach , where almost nothing does, change has become a common word in my vocabulary. Straying from my roots geographically, and surviving it, encouraged me to take a chance creatively as well. From the structure and conditions of graphic design and illustration for publishing and print advertising, I embraced the free spirit of fine art. I chose "nature" as a common element for three very distinctive styles of expression. The first, a traditional approach, resulted in cut-paper illustrations of florals and creatures. The second, an electronic approach, yielded hundreds of digital portraits that I call the "PhotoArt...
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A beautiful shower stall mosaic.
A spacious corner shower—complete with tile medallion—includes a fixed shower head on the right and an adjustable handset on the left.
The finished bath
Open shelving and two vanities, each with eight drawers, provide ample storage space.
Enter the bathroom of this suburban Minneapolis home and you'll find stone ranging in size from 5/8-in. flecks to 500-lb. slabs. It's installed on the ceiling, walls and floors; used as baseboard molding, shower seat and backsplash; laid in herringbone, mosaic and diagonal patterns; tumbled, polished and honed. It's a testament to the versatility, workability and beauty of stone as a building product.
But simply including tons of stone does not an elegant bathroom make: The stone, indeed the entire project, must be thoughtfully designed and installed.
Three Unique Areas—One Unifying Material
The whirlpool bath area
A limestone deck and tile surround this whirlpool bath.
The shower area
A marble mosaic tile turns this shower stall into a work of art.
The vanity area
Marble and limestone are used side-by-side to dress up a vanity top, make-up table and floor.
Bathrooms can be broken down into "work zones," similar to the way kitchens often are. And while each space can be self-contained and have unique elements, all must mesh visually and functionally in order for the room to look and work right.
In this bathroom, stone works as the underlying theme to unify three unique spaces. The shower area features a mosaic marble mural surrounded by honed marble tile for the walls, ceiling, floor and seat. The whirlpool bath area, tucked into a bay window, uses a slab of honed limestone for the deck as well as the backsplash along the walls. The vanity countertops are likewise crafted from limestone, with a slab of polished granite nested between the two to serve as the makeup tabletop.
The 16 x 16-in. honed marble floor tile, band of baseboard tile and crown molding help tie all the spaces—including the partitioned-off commode area—into a single elegant space. All the stone, with the exception of the granite slab, is either tumbled or honed for a simple yet rich look.
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Porous stone, such as limestone, slate and marble, can be irreversibly harmed by even ordinary cleaning products. Acidic cleaners can etch and dull natural stone surfaces and damage the grout as well. Most installers and manufacturers suggest sealing the tiles, then using only warm water or products formulated specifically for stone.
Problem Solver: High Tile Meets Short Carpet
Tile needs to be installed over a solid base, and that base can range in thickness from 1/4-in. backer board to the 1-in.-thick "mud pack" used in this project. Add 1/2-in.-thick tile to that and you have a bathroom floor that stands toe-stubbing height above the abutting carpet. In many cases a beveled threshold can ease the transition, but to make up the 1-1/2-in. height difference in this project, the tile installer laid a 3-in.-wide strip of tile at a slight incline.
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Shower enclosure with raw materials
A long-lasting tile job starts with a solid foundation.
Tile is remarkably durable. It's what's beneath it and the way the tile is installed that make the real difference. Three different types of tile bases or underlayments were used in this bathroom. Here's what was used where and why:
DensShield—a relatively new material that looks like, cuts like and installs like drywall—was used for the upper shower walls and shower ceiling. The waterproof core resists water and swelling.
Cement board was used for the shower seat and lower 2 ft. of the shower enclosure. The tile contractor preferred using cement board—a tried-and-true standby—to using one of the newer products in areas subject to intense moisture or standing water.
Dry-Tamped Base, a stiff, sand/mortar mix packed over metal lath, was used on all floors and the shower curb. A tamped base was also used to pitch the shower floor toward the drain from all directions.
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Easy-access cabinet With four children, the homeowners found their private master bathroom often being invaded by kids coming in to grab shampoo and other supplies. The solution? They put an access door in the side of the cabinet right by the door, so the kids can grab what they need without traipsing through the main bathroom.
A perfect makeup area (with perfect storage) When the homeowner revealed she had to sit on the vanity in the existing bathroom to get close enough to the mirror to apply makeup, the design team decided to bring the mirror to the homeowner. In the new bathroom, the large mirror, set only 10 in. back from the front of the built-in makeup table, provides the needed proximity. A candlestick lamp on each side provide the side lighting, and the mirror—while having a built-in look—cleverly disguises a close-at-hand storage space behind its swinging door.
Open storage nooks incorporated into the "dead space" behind the storage cabinet are accessible from the vanity areas on each side.
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Many construction-related problems stem from misunderstandings between all of the parties involved—homeowners, designers, general contractors, building officials and subcontractors. To streamline the decision-making process and clear up any questions of accountability, designer Pat Undlin also served as construction coordinator. It involved more visits to the job site, but the project turned out exactly as planned.
Minimize the mess
Before demolition began, the general contractor installed temporary plastic floor runners between the upstairs bathroom and the front door, and protected the wood stair spindles and newel posts with heavy cardboard. This prep work can save thousands of dollars in repair and cleanup costs at the end of the project.
When tile colors don't match
The tiles used for the main wall, the mural and the frame surrounding it came from different quarries. This, coupled with the fact that stone is a natural product with less-than-predictable coloration, resulted in tile hues that didn't quite match. To solve the problem, the border tiles were treated with a color-enhancing sealer to even out the color and push it closer to that of the mosaic tiles.
An old world look with new materials
The finished whirlpool bath enclosure with a limestone deck and tile
An oversize whirlpool tub sits beneath the bay window.
Hidden access doors
The front panels providing access to the whirlpool tub's motor and plumbing were designed to be the same size, and fall into the same position, as the wall tiles, making the doors nearly invisible.
Interior designers Maureen Haggerty, Pat Undlin and Heather Zappo of Pappas Inc. collaborated with the homeowners to create a room with an underlying "Old World" feel. This was partially accomplished in the selection of lighting and plumbing fixtures. The fabrics, paints and accessories used in the space helped reinforce the theme. Elements that might have fought with the feel were kept simple; sinks are undermounted, the oval tub is white and elegantly simple, and recessed lights are unobtrusive and disappear into the ceiling.
"We avoided saturating the space with Old World elements," says Pat. "Our goal was to respond to the homeowners' request for adequate lighting and practical storage to support how they live—within the context of a modern bathroom with classic overtones."
The cabinets are made of alder, a wood that accepts paint, stain and clear finishes smoothly and evenly. The vanity cabinets were given an aged look through a lengthy process that involved distressing the wood with ice picks and chains, hand sanding, sealing the wood followed by more hand sanding, applying coats of paint and glaze, then wiping and rubbing them off to highlight the distressed areas and recesses, all topped off with several coats of clear lacquer. The vertical storage cabinet was finished with multiple coats of a pigmented catalyzed lacquer.
All colors and materials—right down to the fabric on the dressing table chair—were selected before the project began. "When we design a project we believe everything in it should look intentional," muses Pat. "If you have a detailed plan and execute it exactly, you'll get precisely the aesthetic and function you want."
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A few months ago, Peter Brabeck- Letmathe, the former CEO and current chairman of Nestle, came under a lot of heat because of his suggestion that water should be privatized. While this is an encroachment upon the most basic human right of all times, this issue also brings one of the biggest impending disasters into limelight. Water shortage today is a real problem, with scientists stating that more than 750 million people do not have access to clear drinking water. Of all the dangers that we believe are just waiting to happen, water scarcity is the one that very few people take seriously enough.
While working with the youth organization called the Energy Action Coalition, I came across several journals that emphasize on the eco-crisis that we are facing today. The future does not bring any good news in sight. The global climate is changing. And it is rapidly morphing as the temperature rises too quickly. Over centuries, our dependance on carbon fuel is finally playing the death knell loud and clear.
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Our Energy Action Coalition is a youth-led movement that aims to popularize the need for clean energy and helps influence the climate change for the better. This organization usually works on a youth platform while networking amongst the young members of society and gaining massive support from various campuses and youth groups. Our work has been brought to effect on the global scale, and we have multiple international projects where we contribute to make this world a safer and better place for all.
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These organizations have also carried out extensive research to see how we use up so much of water.
An average shoe manufacturing company in the market uses as much as 8 tons of water to make only one pair of shoe. Unbelievable, huh?
How the Shoe Industry Contributes to Climate Change
This is indeed quite bad news if you consider there are 30,000 shoe stores in the US alone, and that only Adidas make 258 million shoes annually. A lot of resources and energy is used to produce this amount of shoes, resulting in the release of greenhouse gases, mainly vapor water, carbon dioxide, and methane. CFC (1,1,2-Trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethane), a synthetic compound that destructs the ozone layer, has been used as a material in shoe soles. Green house gases act like a blanket, causing the atmosphere to retain heat, a process known as greenhouse effect, to which scientists attribute Earth's recent climate changes.
In 2010, the average American household spent $1,700 on footwear and related products. The footwear industry is growing 4.1% a year. When you add up all this you get the size of the pending environmental crisis.
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One of their eco-friendly brands—the Corso Como—supports the hand-made boutique art that has almost gone out of style due to mass producing and competing manufacturing giants. The shoes of this particular brand are hand-assembled and are made out of recyclable tissues and boxes. Corso Como helps in furthering various social and environmental causes where a portion of every sale is given to charity. These gorgeous wedge sandals are discounted by 60%. Many Corso Como products are currently on sale or you can use a 6pm promo codes.
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Alexandria city officials have ramped up efforts in recent years to improve the stubbornly dismal academic performance of Jefferson-Houston School. They brought in a new principal and a group of new teachers; they hired an outside turnaround consultant and math coaches; they instituted extra tutoring, drew up blueprints for a state-of-the-art makeover and scheduled the longest school day in the city.
But Virginia lawmakers say it's too late. The state plans to take over the school, thanks to bills passed in the General Assembly last week that would create a statewide school division to oversee Virginia's chronically under-performing schools.
The move is galvanizing protests from teachers, principals and school board leaders in Alexandria and around the state. They argue it's impractical for a distant school board to manage the day-to-day details of bus rides and school lunches. And they say it's out of sync with a long American tradition of locally controlled public schools.
"I don't believe change comes from the top down" said Karen A. Graf, chairman of the Alexandria School Board. "Community is what changes schools."
Graf and other school board members met with governor's aides in Richmond last week to protest any takeover and urge some lenience for school systems that are making strides toward improvement. Statewide associations of principals, teachers, superintendents and parents have also organized to oppose the legislation.
Around the country, impatience with the often-tedious process of improving schools has led to increasing interventions in the local governance of schools. With the No Child Left Behind Act's passage in 2001, federal and state governments stepped up their oversight with more testing and prescribed remedies for failing schools. In New York City and the District, mayors took control of the schools. Now some states are stepping in.
Creating a turnaround school district — the Opportunity Educational Institution — is a key part of Republican Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's education reform package. It's based on a program in Louisiana, and similar efforts are underway in Tennessee and Michigan.
Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, persistently under-performing schools in Virginia would be overseen by an appointed board, including lawmakers, a turnaround expert, former educators and citizens. The board could turn over control of the school to a college or appoint a charter operator. After performance improves, the schools would be returned to the local school board.
Localities would be required to send per-pupil funding to the state to manage the schools, a provision that has irked many lawmakers in Northern Virginia, where schools are largely funded with local taxes.
Jefferson-Houston is one of just four schools, out of more than 1,800 in Virginia, that currently meet the criteria for takeover after falling short of state testing goals for four consecutive years. But local educators fear that as state reading and math tests become more challenging and the required passing rates increase, more and more schools will slip from their grasp.
The bill passed overwhelmingly in the House, and Lt. Gov Bill Bolling (R) broke a tie vote in the Senate.
Opponents hope they can stall the legislation by urging lawmakers to reject funding the approximately $600,000 in operational costs for the new statewide district and instead fund a study that would spell out successful models for school interventions. They also promise to mount lawsuits challenging the law's constitutionality. Another bill in Richmond is pending to amend the constitution, clarifying the state's ability to operate local schools.
Del. Gregory D. Habeeb (R-Salem), one of the bill's sponsors, said that 99 percent of the time he is "a local control guy." But the state has an obligation to act on behalf of children stuck in struggling schools such as Jefferson-Houston, a school that has failed to meet state testing goals for 10 of the past 11 years, he said.
"This is not a situation where nothing has been tried," Habeeb said.
Alexandria School Superintendent Morton Sherman said the state already has been involved in efforts to improve Jefferson-Houston, a school west of Old Town serving about 360 children from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. He estimated that Virginia has spent more than $1 million to pay for consultants during the past decade to monitor progress and offer ideas, with little effect. But two years ago, Sherman's administration took on a much more aggressive overhaul of the school, which he said is beginning to show results on internal reading and math tests.
Del. Rob Krupicka (D-Alexandria) said he hopes the state will take that progress under consideration before uprooting the school with yet another change in leadership and direction.
"I don't want to create a cycle of constant turnover," Krupicka said. "Taking over a school is a very dramatic step."