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Wall of Fake Breasts
Status: Real Wall, Fake Breasts
Retailers are always coming up with new gimmicks to help their customers. I'm surprised none of them have thought of this before (reported in the Hindustan Times):Men who want to woo their ladies by buying them sexy-scanty upper garments, but don't know their sizes, need not look confused anymore, as a designer in Netherlands has made their job much easier by creating a wall of fake breasts to help male shoppers buy bras that fit their wives or girlfriends. Wendy Rameckers, who works at the Piet Zwart Institute for Retail and Design in Rotterdam, has made a wall consisting of rows of silicon breasts in all sizes. She believes that by look and touch, male shoppers can work out the right size.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to locate a picture of this breast wall. But why stop at a wall? Why not display differently proportioned mannequins to help men find the right size?
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Categories: Body Manipulation Posted by Alex on Thu Nov 03, 2005 |
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I'm surprised nobody thought of this a long time ago.
Posted by Cathy in South Dakota on Thu Nov 03, 2005 at 02:35 PM
Shop full of Real Dolls?
Might actually make men a lot more willing to do some shopping.
Posted by Beasjt in Earth on Thu Nov 03, 2005 at 03:57 PM
Might actually make men a lot more willing to do some shopping.
"I'm surprised nobody thought of this a long time ago."
Ohhh... but I have.
Posted by Peter on Fri Nov 04, 2005 at 04:58 AM
Ohhh... but I have.
I couldn't get to Piet Zwart site listed in the article (cannot find server error) but I do know that Zwart Piet (Black Pete) is the name of Santa Claus' fictional sidekick in Dutch tradition. Makes me suspect a ruse.
Posted by Jerry on Fri Nov 04, 2005 at 06:07 AM
First, the Piet Zwart Institute is real. I guess their website is down because of the peak of attention the Wall gets them.
Second, St. Nicholas is not "Santa Claus' fictional sidekick in Dutch tradition". It's the opposite. Santa Claus is based on St. Nicholas.
http://www.the-north-pole.com/history/
http://www.christmasarchives.com/santa.html
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-34,GGLG:en&q=Santa+Claus+history
Posted by Henri in The Netherlands on Fri Nov 04, 2005 at 05:50 PM
Second, St. Nicholas is not "Santa Claus' fictional sidekick in Dutch tradition". It's the opposite. Santa Claus is based on St. Nicholas.
http://www.the-north-pole.com/history/
http://www.christmasarchives.com/santa.html
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-34,GGLG:en&q=Santa+Claus+history
er...I thought Jerry was saying that "Black Pete" (ake Zwart Piet) was "Santa Claus" (aka St Nicklas)'s sidekick...
Anyways, there really was a Dutch graphic designer named Piet Zwart! Bauhaus. Had a personal logo that was just a letter P and a black square.
Posted by katey on Fri Nov 04, 2005 at 06:46 PM
Anyways, there really was a Dutch graphic designer named Piet Zwart! Bauhaus. Had a personal logo that was just a letter P and a black square.
Here is a picture of this wall:
Maybe not as spectacular as envisioned?
It is a display in a trade show for retail design: Shop!nl.
regards, wim
Posted by wim wiskerke in washington dc on Fri Nov 04, 2005 at 08:42 PM
Maybe not as spectacular as envisioned?
It is a display in a trade show for retail design: Shop!nl.
regards, wim
"er...I thought Jerry was saying that "Black Pete" (ake Zwart Piet) was "Santa Claus" (aka St Nicklas)'s sidekick..."
Right! Sorry for the misinterpretation. English is not my native language.
Posted by Henri in The Netherlands on Sat Nov 05, 2005 at 06:42 AM
Right! Sorry for the misinterpretation. English is not my native language.
Some of my best friends are men -- but my guess is that either they'd break up in giggles trying to maul a grey-blue wall of tits, or else it would be far too real to them, in which case they'd probably not come to any useful conclusions about technical size.
Posted by cvirtue on Sat Nov 05, 2005 at 08:06 PM
Posted by wim wiskerke in washington dc on Sun Nov 06, 2005 at 12:15 AM
So ... the dimples on that wall are supposed to be breasts? The shape doesn't seem the same.
By the way, wim, I think you mean "real silicone." Silicone is that rubber-like substance they use for breast implants. Silicon is that glass-like substance they use for computer chips.
Posted by Big Gary, trying spats on his hamster in Dallas, Texas on Sun Nov 06, 2005 at 07:54 PM
By the way, wim, I think you mean "real silicone." Silicone is that rubber-like substance they use for breast implants. Silicon is that glass-like substance they use for computer chips.
Thanks Big Gary, I meant the soft ware not the hardware 
Real silicon_e_ indeed.
regards, wim
Posted by wim wiskerke in Washington DC on Mon Nov 07, 2005 at 09:45 PM
Real silicon_e_ indeed.regards, wim
never mind the underwear, how much for the wall?
Posted by hunt on Fri Nov 18, 2005 at 03:54 PM
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