Oct 20th, 2008 · Before the fashion police were everywhere, there was only one: Mr. Blackwell. He began his annual worst-dressed list back in 1960 — targeting the fashion faux pas of the famous. Mr. Blackwell castigated Britney Spears for her "bra-topped collection of Madonna rejects." And for Bjork: "She dances in the dark — and dresses there, too." Still, he said he admired the celebrities on his list. Richard Blackwell was 86, when he died Sunday in Los Angeles.
Keywords: Fashion · Los Angeles · celebration · 1960 · original · famous · PA · bras · Madonna · faux · admiring · Britney Spears
Sep 5th, 2008 · Think the feminists who protested the 1968 Miss America pageant in the name of women's liberation burned their bras? Think again. No bras were set aflame that September day. But the idea that they were helped launch the movement onto the national stage.
Keywords: protests · national · burned · movement · Feminist · liberals · Myth · bras · pageant · 1968 Miss America
Jul 10th, 2008 · A hotel receptionist in England felt a vibration that she thought was her cell phone in the upper pocket of her jacket. It was not. At lunch, 19-year-old Abbie Hawkins investigated. From her bra, she plucked out a sleeping baby bat. She figures it snuggled into the bra as it hung on the clothesline.
Keywords: cell · Hotel · england · Receptionist · bras · investigators · vibrations · Snuggles · Clothesline · Abbie Hawkins
Jun 27th, 2008 · As a young woman, Betty Jenkins received a gift from her mother that was meant to attract the attention of young men. But as Jenkins tells her niece, the attention she got wasn't the kind she was expecting. The gift was an inflatable bra designed to enhance its wearer's figure. It worked well — until she got on a plane.
Keywords: daughter · bras · Niece · Jenkins · trip · Inflation · wearer · Betty Jenkins
Oct 5th, 2007 · You've heard of taking your shoes off to go through security. Here's a new one: a woman in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho had to take her bra off when it triggered a courthouse metal detector. She asked to use the bathroom but says security refused. She wants an apology.
Keywords: security · shoe · Idaho · bathroom · bras · detector · courthouse · Apology · d'Alene · Braless · Coeur
Jul 21st, 2007 · In Louisiana, the president of Lafourche Parish signed an ordinance banning saggy pants, revealing bra straps, partial nudity and clothing that is "not becoming" to one's sex -- and she acknowledged that it might be unconstitutional.
Keywords: Sex · president · parish · Louisiana · unconstitutional · clothes · ordinance · bras · nudity · Baggy · Lafourche Parish · saggy
Jul 8th, 2007 · In the on-air puzzle, clues are given to two words. If you add "C-O" in front of the first word, you'll get a new word that is completely unrelated to the first one. For example, if the clues are a woman's undergarment and a venomous snake, the response would be "bra" and "cobra."
Keywords: Cobras · bras · unrelated · Copious · undergarment
Feb 4th, 2006 · A Japanese boutique on Fifth Avenue in New York specializes in customized bras. The owner feels American women don't pay enough attention to the bra as a supportive device.
Keywords: Americans · New York · supporters · Japan · customer · specials · Avenue · bras · boutique · Fifth Avenue
