Big-Bottomed Mannequins Boost Profile in New York

Christine Kearney ^ | Fri, Nov 12, 2004

[presidio9]

.Lo and Beyonce can take another bow. The booty-shaking stars have shaped the newest generation of mannequins, with hundreds of well-rounded plastic backsides appearing in shop windows across New York.

Bootylicious figures clad in tight low-rise jeans have spilled from the city's street fashion stores into more established labels.

"It's absolutely the trend," said Dwight Critchfield, creative director for mannequin firm Goldsmith.

"These mannequins look great, and there is a real sex appeal about them."

The recent pop culture fixation on large bottoms has been around since at least 1992, when rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot scored a hit with "Baby Got Back."

But some credit the recent booty shakin' efforts of shapely stars Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce for the fresh emphasis on bigger and rounder posteriors, coupled with the fashion explosion of the Brazilian-style low-rise jeans.

"J.Lo was the first to stress that women shouldn't be afraid to show their curves, and the popularity of rap made that shape more acceptable," said Critchfield. "And it is about these low-riding jeans looking good on a sexy, tight fit."

The company launched a "Sex" mannequin with "a larger booty and body" tailored for fashion label Express and for stores carrying lower-end trend clothing, said Critchfield.

On the juniors' floor of Macy's in Manhattan, Guess jeans and streetwear label EckoRed display jeans on a fuller rear-end bottom-half mannequin, known as a pants form, opposite a large poster of J.Lo and her clothing label, while a DJ mixes hip hop and reggae to teen and 20-something shoppers.

EckoRed launched the new mannequin -- called the J.Lo butt form -- at the store almost two years ago and sales have since tripled.

"It is a serious sociological trend that is positive for retailers and customers in that the tyranny of the undernourished perfect model is over," said Rich Rollison of Lifestyle Forms and Display, which designed the pants form mannequin.

Other companies also are developing more realistic mannequins with larger posteriors in maternity and plus sizes.

U.S. label Lane Bryant, which caters to plus sizes 14 to 28, is launching a more voluptuous full-body mannequin across its 250 stores after a successful test run in New York.

"It originated from urban ethnic street wear, but it has transcended that," Rollison said. "Now you are going to see it projected in more urban markets and it will get bigger."

[Eddie Haskell]

I don't understand it either but I've seen men in this very forum fawning over photos of Lara Flynn Boyle. She's the actress that looks like a Holocaust victim.

[sully777]

There was a SNL skit with Dan Ackroid, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtain, John Belushi and Milton Burle that featured a family with enormous butts. It was a screaming riot. Your picture reminds me of that skit.

[rdb3]

I don't want no AIDS looking women but I would prefer their folds be in the sheets, not on the belly stomach.

I agree with that. There's a difference between what we call "chunky" and what we lovingly call "thick." Obesity is a non-starter, just like skinniness.

[Jimmyclyde]

Ah yes Greek.

Who says us Bush supporters are uneducated?

Baby got back in three languages, top that!!

[aShepard]

Geez! Looks like they've been eat'in too much wallpaper paste!

[sauropod]

that's "Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen.

It's my favorite Fat Bottomed Girl's theme song (Hillary).

[najida]

The 'thin' fad started in the mid-60's with Twiggy,
when most fashion designers were (and still are) gay.

Womens clothes were designed for the ideal young MALE figure-- hipless, wider shouldered etc. Therefore, women had to go against their natural body type to fit into this unrealist ideal. Anorexia sprang up during this time period.

The fashion continues with the only thing different being the stick figure has fake boobs and silicone lips.

I always get a giggle when I hear a younger guy talkin' about how he likes skinny girls--sighting the classic 'boy figure' ideal.

If only he knew the origin of the fashion trend.

[Delmont]

My Ex wife Velveeta was kind of large in the hind end. I told her to loose some weight but to be honest with you, "The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin'"

[Delmont]

Ern-you beat me to the punch.Could you help me, my new girl friend is really fat. We haven't consumated our relationship yet but I am getting worried. If we are going to be intimate, how do I find the right place?

Please help me Ern, I know you once had a solution to this problem....help me make Velveeta happy.

[AnAmericanMother]

Maybe I'll have a stab at it in Scots Gaelic . . .

. . . nah, I haven't got THAT much time on my hands . . .

[Syncro]

It's all Greek to me...

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[SilentServiceCPOWife]

LOL Obviously, black men know hot women when they see them. ;-)

[AnAmericanMother]

I don't do binary. < g >

[robertpaulsen]

Because their's goes to "11".

[Betis70]

Thanks. Figures it would be the 'queer eye for the straight guy' types that did this. For some reason that actress in "Heat" sticks out, because I just found her so manly and unattractive.

Twiggy. Ick.

[ErnBatavia]

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Samuel Morse is now OFFICIALLY rolling over in his grave.

[TheBigB]

A little Vida Guerra action...

[Constitution Day]

Whoa.

Good thing this thread has already been chat-i-fied.

[TheBigB]

I think that's the only reason I got away with it. ;) If the missus isn't around, Google search. Vida is smokin' hot!