See now, bon bon's story makes me kind of like Condy. And I don't want to.

Quick! Look at the picture again.

Seriously, I don't need to hate the people to hate their policies. That's one of the elements of a lot of political discussions that bothers me, when I am in the mood to let it--the villification of the person.

Still? That's a scary-as-hell shot of Ms. Rice.

Jilli, I don't think I've seen that down in the Bay Area, but every mental picture I try to construct from your description makes me cringe. I'm terribly sorry for your sake, but I'm hoping it's a cult, and a Seattle-local one. I already spend too much time crying over the "belt across the squishiest part of the hips causing distressing bulges at the waist and pelvis" trend that shows no sign of dying out.

I heart Juliana!

Okay, y'all keep confusing me with your discussion of Julianna Margulies' outfit, as I keep doing a double-take.

Jilli, I cannot explain that trend to you, as I find it (and most cropped pants) an abomination.

JZ - it's not confined to Seattle, as I often see it here.

I will just be happy when the teenagers stop wearing tight low-rise pants. Because no one looks good with rolls coming over their pants and teenage girls should be encouraged to wear close that fit. Also, I wish they would embrace shirts to cover their stomachs.

I'm terribly sorry for your sake, but I'm hoping it's a cult, and a Seattle-local one.

It's so ... well, unflattering, for one, and kinda silly-looking in a not-terribly-fun way, either.

The product I'm working on this time around at MS has a higher percentage of *very* fashion-conscious women in the building, which means that I get even more startled looks than usual.

I wish they would embrace shirts to cover their stomachs.

I like shirts that don't cover the stomach. Maybe merely as self defense, since they tend to ride up on me higher than most mortal waistbands.

Also, I think the lower stomach is, in prime form, lovely, and in unprime form, no worse than most of an unprime body.

Is that a roundabout way of saying you've bought me one?

Maybe.

Or maybe I don't know how much a 円 is....

Well the girls that tend to wear these are in unprime form and they usually wear them in combo with the too tight low-rise pants or skirts. It's just a lumpy look when these girls aren't really lumpy, they are just soft and soft is fine, they need to wear clothes that fit.

What msbelle said.

The girls I see around here all the time are exactly the ones msbelle describes. Soft is good, bellies are lovely, but bellies are loveliest when they're naked and not oddly bound up, and the extreme low-rise jeans with the very snug belt around the softest part of the curve of the hip does nothing but take a curvy and lovely body and make it look oddly lumpen. It's a world of wrong.