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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Swimsuit Madness Friday, July 29, 2005 Swimsuit Madness I tripped over a link to a page full of images from the new Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue (more here, or just go to the SI site if you for some reason actually need to see women in non-revealing swimsuits), and had to comment. I'll save my rant about these stupid, cheesy, poorly-photoshopped images for another day, since I just wanted to comment on swimsuit prices. Malaya tells me that wearable women's bikinis and swimsuits are in the $20-$30 range at discount stores, and maybe up to $50 at department stores. Those are ridiculous prices if you're going by the amount of material and difficulty of construction, compared to other clothing, but since that's never an issue with "fashion," I won't beat that drum. I do find it funny when they have prices all open to comparison in the same photo, though. Like the one you see here, for instance. (Yes, you can click it to see the whole image.) Terrible photo, not a great model, and not a great suit. But hey, at least it's (slightly) cheaper than a high-end all-weather, waterproof sleeping bag, or a pair of heavy-duty snowboarding boots. Both of which are things that require 50x the manufacturing time, expense, and expertise, and can be used repeatedly, while most of these overpriced designer swimsuits are covered in sparkles or dangly things that will fall off immediately, or even sooner if you actually wear the into the water. This one doesn't even hold a candle to the most expensive suits they showcase, of course. I clicked this one for the butt shot and coughed at the $350 price for a suit that's only partially seen as it vanishes into this woman's ass. Used to be women paid good money for clothing that didn't bind up like that, and this one's designed to! (Not that I'm complaining about the view, mind you.) I'm sure there are more expensive suits to be found, if you dare take the challenge of looking through every shot to find one. I'd recommend that instead you 1) get a girlfriend, 2) go look at actual porn, or 3) go look at actual sexy bikinis, but hey, it's a free Internet. (Some of it, anyway.) I did like some of the shots in the new SI swimsuit issue; this one, for instance. Click it to see the full shot. It's one of the body painting images, and while the model and the photo are mediocre, I love the realism of the copy. I don't know how they do it, but I think we can safely rule out someone spending fifty hours painting in every single little dot of the mesh-looking material. They must have some sort of pre-printed thing that goes on like a big sticker, but isn't plastic? Or maybe they just print it right on the girls, like they're newspapers or Silly Putty? There must be a lot of touch up required to fill in the paint in every nook and cranny, and no, that wouldn't be too bad a job. Posted by: Flux # 1:24 AM Comments: That photo is hilariously photoshopped. Even ignoring the 'underwater' part, if you just look at all the highlighting they did all over her body (knees particulary shine out amonsgst the barren white of her legs) it just looks so so fake. As for the painting - it takes them up to 8-9 hours, depending on the complexity of the design and it's all done by hand. Originally anyway, I guess it is possible they have faster/cheaper ways of doing it now (like air-brushing the paint onto them, rather than using brushes), and for photo shoots it wouldn't really matter, but when they're out in public the hand-done ones would really be above the rest in quality. #: 1:50 AM posted by Anonymous Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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