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China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese Beat Us to Another Technological Breakthru
2007-07-24
Posted by:Bottle Baby 34B

#8  Oh, come on. The classic research on this matter was done by Charles Seim in his 1956 paper, A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2007-07-24 22:51  

#7  I have a natural talent for this work.
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Mooses,

"They forgot perkiness, bounciness, nummyness, squeezability, armpit drift, equanimity, parity and fwappality."

ROTFLMAO! fwappality & nummyness references the nursing periods!
Posted by: RD   2007-07-24 22:46  

#6  half of the "curvy" women around here don't care about size anyway. they just don't wear one now i will go vomit
Posted by: sinse   2007-07-24 21:20  

#5  This is not news to any woman who has every gone shopping for undergarments. That's why it's important to work with a trained fitter, instead of popping by WalMart to pick up the cheapest thing in the size one fondly imagines oneself to be... or was twenty years ago. That is why 70% of British women are wearing the wrong size, not because the brassieres are poorly designed. American women, ditto, by the way.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-07-24 19:54  

#4  The researchers' 100 measurements have been honed down to just eight factors to describe the breast shape - overall build, breast volume, inner, outer and lower breast shape, height, and gradient and orientation.

They forgot perkiness, bounciness, nummyness, squeezability, armpit drift, equanimity, parity and fwappality.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-07-24 19:09  

#3  Writing in the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University team says that a "woman's breast is a very complex 3D geometry"

I found that to be true when I pursued several years of independent study into the matter while at college. Unfortunately I was unable to obtain post-graduate funding for research that could have saved the country from falling behind in this critical technology. I still have my design notebooks on quick release mechanisms. Perhaps the Chinese will pay for that.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-07-24 19:03  

#2  I'd like to volunteer my services for in situ QA inspection.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-07-24 18:51  

#1  Probably required a lot of hands-on experimentation.
Posted by: lotp   2007-07-24 18:50  

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