Comments on: Linksplosion

By: MutantSupermodel

MutantSupermodel — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:26:44 +0000

I don’t blame you! I would have trumpeted the Italian thing too. I personally emailed it and posted it to everyone and everywhere I could. It’s fantastic.

By: MutantSupermodel

MutantSupermodel — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:26:04 +0000

Eh I have issues with the education thing. I know it’s got the research backing it up but it kind of applies and kind of doesn’t to me personally. Technically, I’m educated. I got my bachelor’s when I was prego with kiddo 2. I have a feeling wealth is probably a better indicator of divorce probabilities but they mask it with “education” because it’s less likely to stir the pot. Can’t anger the peasants, you know!

By: that betch

that betch — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:47:12 +0000

I thought I had posted on here but it appears my brain failed me. Such a simple post but so wonderful, thanks for the linkage! My son’s 8th birthday is this Saturday and the MSN Money link you shared will help us greatly. I also shared the Vogue article on my Facebook because I was just drooling over it. I felt proud(er) of my Italian roots from that spread, even if it sounds silly to say!

By: LAL

LAL — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:33:38 +0000

Love the links. Thanks. Will probably be raising a lazy nerd myself. I can already tell, smart but always thinking of ways to get helped along. Sigh.

I hate to say this but my husband told me this a long time ago about divorce, the more educated you are the less likely you are to get divorced. Not only wealth, but consider that people take longer to get educated, find the right person, so they get married later and have kids later. People who marry younger rush into marriage typically, college educated and later take more time to date and don’t usually marry the first person they are with.

Going to use the executive pay thing on my blog.

By: Spanish Prof

Spanish Prof — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:54:42 +0000

In the U.S, I read somewhere that when Marilyn Monroe was alive, she was a size 14, but in today’s sizes, she would be a size 8. I also hope it gains traction in Italy. It’s one of the fashion capitals of the world, so it would be imitated elsewhere. IT’s interesting that Italian most beautiful and iconic women (Sophia Loren, Monica Bellucci) are anything but stick thin.

Glad you liked Buenos Aires! I always go back once a year, can’t really live in it but also without it!

By: MutantSupermodel

MutantSupermodel — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:56:02 +0000

I went to Buenos Aires for my honeymoon! Beautiful, gorgeous, wonderful city. I actually didn’t do much clothes shopping. I’ve heard the European sizes are different than US but still that limit is baffling. My guess is Monica has her clothes tailored I think the magazine is trying to make a push for change but this isn’t something happens overnight. Even her in the USA, I’m seeing sizes shrink. Now you can find size 00 and XXS! Vogue Italia apparently has a part of the website devoted entirely to curvy women. I hope it gains traction, really.

By: Spanish Prof

Spanish Prof — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:12:06 +0000

The spread in Vogue is amazing. However, it’s interesting that it doesn’t correspond with the message send to women in other ways. I recently had a post in my blog about Buenos Aires clothing stores. Buenos Aires is my hometown, which I adore, and I am currently visiting, but one thing I hate is the clothing stores, where the biggest size you’ll find is a size 8 if you are very lucky. I added that one of the things that moving to the US did for me was improving my self-esteem, because I could find cool, sexy clothes in regular stores. One of my readers left a comment saying that she understood completely, because the same happened to her in Southern Europe (ITaly), and how it completely changed when she moved to Northern Europe, where they have sizes for “regular” women. I often wonder where does Monica Bellucci buy her clothes.