sausage-casing girls

Sally Donlon sod at LOUISIANA.EDU
Fri Jul 7 14:43:55 UTC 2006


Forget the currency of the term (which does have legs here in
Louisiana), I'm wondering who in the world believes that the fashion
industry creates clothing for the "classic hour-glass figure."
AFAICT, clothing for young women is ALL cut as if they were young
men: no hips, no waist, and practically no breasts. It's no wonder
many are hanging out!

sally


On Jul 7, 2006, at 4:41 AM, Lynne Murphy wrote:

> Has this term any currency outside the LA Times article:
>
> <http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-et-
> tightclothes4jul04,0,368397.story?coll=la-home-headlines>
>
> ?
>
>
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> Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language
> Arts B133
> University of Sussex
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>
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