While I understand that, if it weren't for the ACLU Brooks Brothers wouldn't feature any models of color at all, I have to ask: What self-respecting black person (outside of Carlton Banks and Elvin Tibideaux) would wear this crap?

@foree: I got a little weepy.

Cabo? CABO? Is it Spring Break already? Better reserve my suite at the Days Inn!

Why do we do this to ourselves?

@ineffable.me: Admitting it is the first step toward recovery...and opening weekend of S&TC movie!

I'll take one in every color.

J'adore.

@Reluctant Financier: Totally.

@bowlingfordollars: I adore it and I'm not even an exurban housewife!

@foree: I'm in! How do we do this? Shaving cream? A sub-zero freez-o-nomiter a la Batman?

I LOVE this guy! Except his lashes are a bit much.

@MsKenney: Perhpas there's a way to get a doc to prescribe the reduction for you...sounds to me like the loss of that much weight (congrats!) would require some sort of surgical intervention up top.

@BiscuitDoughJones: Ha! What really burns me is that she's complaining about boobs. Boobs! From what I gather, she's not in ill health, she's not trying to outrun 3 creditors, she's not unemployed...she's got big knockers and, as you rightly pointed out, she can get a medically necessitated reductions (should she have…

Based on that snippet of detail, if Tracie does have to sit thru this thing, I vote she gets a raise.

@rednrowdy: Fat Ass here. Short and hippy. That's me. Would I take the alternative? Perhaps but, then again, my large trunk doesn't hinder me from swimming, jogging, wearing sweaters or tank tops. Ce la vie.

@Reluctant Financier: Seconded.

@foree: I'll see your fuzzy sweetness and raise you a bubbiewubbie widdal fluffernutter!

I've seen this guy's show - 9pm @ The Baton. He comes on after Chili Peppa and before the "Drags On Parade" disco medley.

@notaclevername: @Mollyboo: And even though I know absolutely everything in Lucky (and every other ladymag) is fakery served up at less than $2 an issue (for subscribers, natch), I simply cannot stop!

PS - none of the scamps I've worked with @ Razorfish EVER looked like this. I must not have been working on a trendy enough account b/c all my Razorfish contacts looked like AE salespeople.