It’s not a great time for newspapers. Ad revenue is being lost to the Web. Readers are getting their news for free online or not at all. Few print outlets have figured out how to make money in the new economy.
But the Wall Street Journal is not giving up! They’ll do whatever it takes to get your attention. That’s what I have to assume, anyway, after reading this story, which Country-Fried Daddy brought home from work the other day and dropped in my lap. He quickly noted that he thought I’d be interested in it for the blog. Not for me. Of course.
Goodbye, Girdle: Curvy Stars Spark A Raid on Padded Panties
‘Booty Pop’ Rounds a Derrière in Jeans, But Egg-Shaped Foam Shows Under Silk
See her? She’s wearing a “Booty Pop.” It’s like a Wonder Bra for your butt. And doesn’t she look so much happier with more junk in her trunk?
Clearly, this is big news. Why else would it be on the Front Page of the Wall Street Journal? It seems that over the past few years, pseudo celebrities like Kim Kardashian have helped to re-shape — ahem — the popular notion of the perfect female body.
While I might thank Kim or Jennifer Lopez for their contributions to a more curvaceous popular understanding of beauty, I see this as only the beginning.
Can we popularize exhaustion? Aging? Post-pregnancy paunch?
How about a singer who can rock out with some dark circles under her eyes? Sexy!
Or maybe a reality TV star who makes men swoon with her adorable wrinkles? Oh, baby, the evidence of your life experiences is so hot!
Perhaps, somewhere out there, we could find a mommy blogger to popularize the my-abdomen-will-never-look-the-same-after-pregnancy stomach. We could market it.
I have a model in mind.
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Padded panties are diffidently graining in popularity these days. I have a pair and they make my favorite jeans fill out nicely. Thanks for the post!
Twitter: kidthingsnet
July 28, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Filling out your booty also makes your boobs look bigger, apparently.
Twitter: countryfried
July 29, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Magical!
If they make it popular to have padding on the SIDES of the hips then man o man….I will be very IN.
Twitter: objectivityrach
July 28, 2010 at 8:26 pm
I dunno…butt curves have always been marginally acceptable. They’ve never been shunned like extra abdomen flab…I sure wish it’d come in style, but I just don’t see it happening.
(sigh)
And thunder thighs? I’m rockin’ that trend like nobody’s business.
Twitter: countryfried
July 29, 2010 at 2:28 pm
We’re all on the cutting edge of fashion! We should pitch the WSJ.
Why is it that the Booty Pop made her boobies pop too??
i told cfd my idea to sell papers……refer to Pop singer Prince.
I’ll be the supermodel rep for the exhaustion look.
I haven’t slept since my first baby in 1995.
that’s why I stay away from the red lipstick…not a good look for the physically fatigued…
Haha… I like how the wind mahine was magically turned on for the second shot.
Twitter: noreturnmom
July 30, 2010 at 6:35 am
I really needed that laugh this morning. Thank you!
P.S. There’s gotta be a way to glamorize adult acne, while we’re at it.
Twitter: sarahviz
August 2, 2010 at 1:39 pm
*raising hand to volunteer*