Comments on: Little droid dress

By: marcie w

marcie w — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:55:00 +0000

Yeah, I’m a size 2 and I still wouldn’t feel comfortable in this. Go figure, my body isn’t the shape of a cheese it box. It’s almost as it I’m made out of some strange fleshy material…

By: marilove

marilove — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:41:00 +0000

Really? You don’t think it’s been photo-shopped? Man. No wonder people have such fucked up beauty ideals.

By: redesigned

redesigned — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:59:00 +0000

much sexier then yoda panties!!!

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:21:00 +0000

Sexy Sexy!

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:17:00 +0000

Actually if you compare the sizes given on the site with standard Australian dress sizes, the Waist measurement is larger on the site, implying that this outfit is designed for a person with a more rectangular body shape.

Unless you mean Actual cylindrical people??

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:15:00 +0000

I can’t find those galleries, even after I turned off the ad-blocker I use. Can you be more specific about where they are?

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:11:00 +0000

http://skin-savers.com/cgi-bin/webman/page.cgi?p=sizechart&chart=australia

From the site, a Large is 38.5 bust, 33 waist, 41.5 hips, standard Australian size is apparently 38, 30, 41. So this dress perhaps fits someone with a more rectangular figure than an hourglass, but then it does stretch.

By: Jello

Jello — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Someone else commented saying that this is by an Australian manufacturer, so maybe that means the sizing is different. Large here in Australia tends to be 14, 16, or even 18 in our sizes. A medium is usually 12-14 for us.

By: Jello

Jello — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:48:00 +0000

I was less about the obesity, and more about photoshopping already skinny people into oblivion.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:47:00 +0000

Utinni!

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:23:00 +0000

I glow in the dark.

OK. That one made me LOL. Mostly because I’m pretty much in the same boat. In the spring, I reflect light like a boss.

By: Joshua Bardwell

Joshua Bardwell — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:45:00 +0000

They make it in sizes S through L. L is currently listed as “low stock”. Given that “L” typically maps to size 12-14, and the average American woman is size 18, the choice of available sizes is interesting.

EDIT TO ADD: And, by the way, depending on how you calculate women’s sizes (which are not standardized), the average American woman may be as small as 14. But even given that, it’s interesting that the dress is available for women who are average or smaller (even down to the extreme of XS), but not any larger than average.

By: ChicagoD

ChicagoD — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:22:00 +0000

@boingboing-2f364281f619584f24f63a794a12e354:disqus I get a cookie because you mashed all “light-skinned” people into one? Sweet! We should hang out more often.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:58:00 +0000

Pretty sure there’s no way for them to do it right in your eyes. Ever consider starting a retail costume webstore?

By: EH

EH — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:56:00 +0000

Looks like a thin woman in a 3/4 pose to me.

By: thissortofthing

thissortofthing — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:52:00 +0000

Here’s my take on this story, published six days ago. Lucasfilm jumps the shark with impossibly skinny women born long after the original trilogy.

http://thissortofthing.com/index/2012/10/4/aussie-company-makes-star-wars-clothes-for-very-skinny-women.html

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:41:00 +0000

Someone at BB has been doing a lot of online costume shopping.

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:39:00 +0000

How about for someone only 3 feet high who has wheels for feet?

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:11:00 +0000

She’s not pale. I’m pale. I’m of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent. I glow in the dark. Just because she’s not the color of midnight does not mean she’s pale.

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:03:00 +0000

There’s a sizing chart. It’s polyester and lycra. You could probably shoehorn a rhino in it, but just because you could doesn’t mean you should.

By: Adam Greenfield

Adam Greenfield — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:45:00 +0000

Would this count as a ‘Sexy R2D2′ Halloween costume, same as the sexy hamburger or sexy Ursula costumes?

By: boxer

boxer — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:43:00 +0000

Here is a youtube video about literally every female costume ever possible that might resonate here: http://youtu.be/V4rUiV_Hh74

By: ChicagoD

ChicagoD — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:31:00 +0000

No. I’m fine with Asian.

By: dorkymohr

dorkymohr — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:18:00 +0000

SORRY ROLLER BASED CYLINDRICAL PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO HAVE LEGS AND HIPS TO DRESS UP AS YOUR FAVORITE DROID

By: jayson

jayson — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:17:00 +0000

Click the link. At the bottom of the page are two pages of user-submitted photos.

By: edgore

edgore — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:02:00 +0000

And by “white”, you of course mean asian.

By: Geir Gaseidnes

Geir Gaseidnes — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000

This clearly needs rollerskates.

By: invictus

invictus — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:44:00 +0000

Isn’t it telling, then, that the image boingboing — and the site — chose to display as the first one a visitor sees is that of a young, white, and very thin person?

I’m not hugely sensitive to the issue by default, but a friend had just mentioned that she’s giving up on boingboing because it’s all about the boyz. Looking at the last few days of posts, can you spot one that talks about appearance and *doesn’t* use an image of a young, thin, white female?

By: Takashi Omoto

Takashi Omoto — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:33:00 +0000

Maybe any of these posters arguing about weight could actually click the link to the site and the see the prominently displayed user images of the product that show people of all sizes and figures using it?

By: Ramone

Ramone — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:19:00 +0000

You mean figures actually proportional to Artoo?