Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by zakoh02
The way to work in KK according to Weight Watchers...

If I were on my "eat something before 9 am" diet and ate a KK every morning, it would help me eat better overall and drop weight, I guarantee it. With all that fun goop coursing through my veins, I probably wouldn't feel like more than a cup of soup for lunch rather than falling on a huge pile of food like a starving wolf, as I usually do.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by tmdiva
I pre-ordered from Amazon and got an e-mail stating that it shipped this morning.

tm

I pre-ordered too, but no confirmation of shipping yet.


Edited to add:
It's shipped and is in Lexington, KY! I never got an e-mail but checked the status of my order at amazon.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
I pre-ordered too, but no confirmation of shipping yet.

Amazon informed me this morning that it had shipped me my "What not to Wear" book (BBC version), but has not yet told me that my Harry Potter book is on the way.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
my (stubby) height

Interesting. In my mind you are 5'10" (in bare feet).

[bilmore]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Interesting. In my mind you are 5'10" (in bare feet).

Funny. I always pictured her in shoes.


(Edited because I thought of something better.)

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
(And re: second hand smoke ... nevermind, don't get me started. Suffice it to say that the apparent health risks of living with an obese parent or partner appear to be vastly higher than the health risks associated with living with a smoker or working in a smoky environment.)

Did I misread this? You think the second-hand health risks are higher for those who live or work around fat people than they are for those who live or work around those who smoke?

Wait--will I get fat if I *don't* fat bash? This is all so confusing. Wait--yes, yes, YES! Right there. Ooooh, yes. There, that should even it out.

[SEC_Chick]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Amazon informed me this morning that it had shipped me my "What not to Wear" book (BBC version), but has not yet told me that my Harry Potter book is on the way.

Amazon was pissing me off because it wouldn't let me pre-order/put it my cart. I went to Overstock.com instead, got it for a dollar chaper, and received an email today that they had shipped it yesterday.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by bilmore
Funny. I always pictured her in shoes.


(Edited because I thought of something better.)

Good point. Damn my lack of precision. I always picture DS in shoes, too (mules with 3" heels to be precise).

[Sparklehorse]

I bought this dress to wear to a wedding and I'm trying to determine how to accessorize. Despite the recommendation of the Ann Taylor web site, I'm not sure I like the look of dark sandals with this dress. Any thoughts or ideas?

I have a great beaded clutch bag which is white with light blue diagonal stripes.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
I bought this dress to wear to a wedding and I'm trying to determine how to accessorize . . . .

Good lord, what happened to your head?!

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
PP is not posting

While I assume that you only attempted to flame PP to draw her out because you want to see her, I will nonetheless remind you that it is impolite to speak ill of a person in her absence.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by bilmore
Good lord, what happened to your head?!

Edited to avoid outing.

(Why aren't you worried about my arms and legs?)

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by former gov't
Maybe because no one ever died from secondary fatness or being run over by someone who had consumed too many ho-hos and got behind the wheel.
Jeez, this Board is obsessed with fat people!

Actually my quote, when taken in context, wasn't meant to imply anything about how dangerous things are to third-parties. The comment was made in relation to conversations about how smokers and drinkers need to pay sin taxes, in part, because they incur extra healthcare costs due to their "bad" habits. I was commenting that I thought drinkers and smokers tend to kick off early and often while overweight people tend to have lifelong healthcare problems. Not saying that smokers and drinkers don't use healthcare resources, but I think our habits tend to kill us quicker. This was in no way intended to state an opinion about smoking in public or drinking and driving. On that note, I saw the bumber sticker "Don't Drink Drive. You Might Hit A Bump And Spill Your Drink" today, on a fucking mini-van. I resisted the urge to downshift and speed past the neutered slow-driving dude driving it who probably had more fun putting that sticker on his mini-van than he has otherwise had in 15 years.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Did I misread this? You think the second-hand health risks are higher for those who live or work around fat people than they are for those who live or work around those who smoke?

Re: working around the fat, absolutely not, unless they are all in those electric wheely-carts, which I now give a wide berth, but that's a wheely-cart problem not a weight problem. But living with them? Yes, actually, I do. Particularly for children with obese parents, but also for other family members exposed to the diet/exercise habits of their loved ones. The children of the obese are far more likely to themselves become obese and die of complications thereof than children exposed to second hand smoke are to die of second-hand-smoke-related illnesses, even given the evidence that SHS slightly increases the chance of a SIDS death in resident infants. Dietary and exercise practices, good and bad, do tend to rub off on the rest of one's family (and children, after all, have to eat what they are given).

And, since you asked, the EPA's much touted 1993 second hand smoke report (still the primary document cited by anti-smoking activists, including Bloomberg justifying the recent NYC ban), which was roundly and pretty justifiably criticized as having no scientific basis whatsoever since it ignored the 2/3 of SHS studies that had findings that didn't support the EPA's position, found a relative risk rate of 1.19 for second hand smoke - this when any relative risk rating of less than 2.0 is considered by the EPA to be inconsequential and indistinguishable from a sample error. That report also found (based on no studies) that non-smokers working full-time in smoky environments (bars) got the equivalent of 1/5 of a cigarette per day, though repeated studies both before and since have found non-smokers in smoky workplaces get the equivalent of 6 cigarettes per year.

BR(unpleasantness of SHS is a MUCH better argument for smoking bans than health)C

[purse junkie]

Try these in the silver if it's an evening wedding:

http://www.stuartweitzman.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=20

Sorry, too technologically impaired to post the picture. Anyway, I'd go with a lighter colored sandal as well.