Posted on 06/28/2002 5:48:00 PM PDT by Pokey78
AFTER eight decades of fumbling with hooks on brassieres, French women are being offered a technical breakthrough — a soutien-gorge that fastens with magnets and undoes with a twist. The gesture is so easy that it should transform the lives of the 80 per cent of women who put their bras on back to front and then pull them around, the makers say. The makers, Bolero, also see advantages for the Gallic male: no more struggling with le crochet récalcitrant. “Men have always found the fastening system to be barbaric,” a spokeswoman said. Georges Chetochine, a behavioural consultant who advised Bolero, said that Frenchmen felt a loss of virility if they stumbled while performing l’art du decrochage. “Our study showed that the bra fastener posed a problem. It takes time,” he said. “The man gets annoyed and embarrassed. Then the women gets irritated too, so she takes it off herself. The man is no longer the conquering male.” The small magnets, which form a flat gold rectangle, have been tested to ensure that they posed no threat to health or mobile telephones. The flimsy black construction, which will cost about £35 when it reaches the shops in the autumn, elicited mixed reactions from men and women when road-tested in the Place de l’Opéra, near The Times’s office. “This is wonderful for women. It’s incredibly easy compared to hooks and I’m going to start putting my bra on the right way round,” Sophie, 27, a secretary, said. But 22-year-old Frédérique said she feared that magnets would take away the charm for men. “There will no longer be the desire that comes with patience. The gift wrapping is too easily undone.” Sandrine, a sales assistant, said: “Sometimes it’s fun to see a man panic over a bra.”
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...Including the dynamics of bra-unhooking.
From the looks of your profile you'll fit in quite nicely where CGEB left off...
Cheers!
Yes it was! When I read the article and came across the name "Sandrine" I immediately thought of that camgirl as I'd never heard that name other than her.
Turns out that after a google search on that name it seems as if every other girl in France is named "Sandrine."
FWIW, she gives her year of birth as 1976.
Best post so far.
WWCGEBD????
I've heard rumors saying she was booted for threatening JimRob. I really don't know.
That sucks! Chat is where threads go to die.
Where threads go to die, PING
It would surprise me if that were true, it just didn't seem like threats were her personality.
Whatever the case was, how could we ever forget the woman who brought us Color Fazer Technology
You should see her new page. She's posing in her underwear.
BTW, how do you do that "Color Fazer Technology" thing? I've never been able to figure it out.
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