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...size. Warren, can you see what's happening here? Are you going to let Chinese women have better-fitting bras than we do? Where is your sense of patriotism? First it's superior bras, then it's superior weapons, and before long the fat lady in her too-snug undergarment has sung, and it's over...
...upstairs, near the brand-new Armani wing, where a customer or two browsed suits, the fitting rooms, which double as sales associates' offices, were abuzz with personal fittings. Any free time for associates would go to calling clients to inform them of the perfect snug Balenciaga jacket or lavish Nina Ricci ball gown to fill out their holiday wardrobes. Of course, part of this is standard luxury protocol at Neiman Marcus, where you will rarely find a knit that isn't cashmere and where the shoes are Manolo Blahnik but in exclusive styles a customer won't see anywhere else...
...When the material is properly wrapped, according to maps of the wearer's body in motion, it creates a mobile, skeleton-like shell that protects and supports the astronaut. When the new suits roll out, each one will be tailored to the individual astronaut and slipped on like a snug wetsuit - a "second skin," says Newman. One kink she's still trying to work out: figuring out a way for the suits to sustain enough counter pressure. To work, the BioSuit needs to exert close to one-third of the pressure exerted by the Earth's atmosphere, or 30 kilopascals...
...Glasgow, hardly feels like an outpost of terrorist activity. Residents of the quiet street, cut into a wooded hillside in the upper-middle class suburb, can count the Scottish city's rich professional football players among their neighbors. Curving in on itself, the crescent's name speaks to its snug insulation: In the local dialect, "neuk" means "nook...
...brainchild is [an error occurred while processing this directive] the Soho-based Lucky Voice, the British capital's most authentically Japanese karaoke bar featuring nine private rooms that hold up to 12 people. Once you and your fellow croonies have settled onto the semicircular benches in your snug, dimly lit lair, press a glowing button labeled "Thirsty," which summons a smiling server, and you'll be downing cocktails and nibbling on dim sum in minutes. Our test troupe of warblers featured dead ringers for Alanis Morissette alongside nervous off-key newbies who quickly lost their inhibitions and refused to give...