Sunday, September 25th 2005
**This is an replay post that was first published on February 25th, 2005**
In this week’s TIME magazine there is an article about Intellifit , a new walk-in glass booth coming soon to your favorite clothing store, that measures your body with radio waves. At first glance, this seems like a nifty concept- the idea of finally getting the right size for all of your many parts. It could make shopping for a bra easier, I guess.
But I wonder this… I wonder how many women it will instantly reduce to tears when they read their printout and see the cold hard proof that they are not actually a size 6. No more excuses like Gap jeans run small, Bebe is only for women with a tiny frame, or my butt never fits in anything from Abercrombie & Fitch… ( of course I made these up just now)
The many explanations we have for why something does not fit us will be gone like the size we thought we were forever. All that will remain is the God’s honest truth - and it will suck holy handbags.
If you received a free pass to use one of these machines, would you?
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I would use it and keep my results to myself!!
YES, it is so true about the sizes…I can wear anything from a size 6 to 12!!
I wonder what my REAL size is? Somewhere in between that, I guess!
Yes, I would use it. Why? I’m not sure. Could be any number of reasons, (1)I’m glutton for punishment (2)I lack self-esteem and/or (3)I’m masochistic.
P.S. One of the girls at Victoria’s Secret measured me after my (boob job) and told me what my new size is. I thanked her for her help and went and bought the size I WANTED to be. It fits. So there.
In a heartbeat! I find reality to be the best motivator.
Ugh…I don’t think I would use it. There are enough depressing things in the world. I like thinking that Gap Jeans run small. Makes me feel soooo much better.
I don’t know. I think it’s a ruse to read your PIN numbers that you got stored in your brain.
I don’t exactly think it would be relevant for me.
wow
I would use it so that I would know, but I wouldn’t tell anyone!
HELL NO! Especially if it is glass for all to see and a small little 17 year old is helping me!!!
If I were sure I had remembered to take my hormones so that there would be no embarassing emotional outburts, and after checking to make sure there were no hidden cameras, interviewing the teenagers that work in the retail stores about just how the data is stored and who has access to it, then I think I am strong enough in my own skin to handle the results…
I never know what size I wear. I think it could actually be very helpful.
Heck no! I can range three different sizes depending on the store, the cut, and whether it’s pants or a skirt. I don’t need some machine to tell me what my ‘real’ size is. There’s no such thing. Different manufacturers even cut their sizes to different measurements. The more money you pay for the clothes, the smaller number you can wear.
Hey..I was born a size 14 and moved up from there. That kinda stuff ain’t even in my vocabulary except for the bra sizing!
Hahahaha….this is ridiculous. It will make every woman crumble. Well, it doens’t take much to make me crumble these days but personally, I don’t need a machine to tell me what my real size is, because there’s no such thing! Everything varies from retailer to retailer. I find nothing fits me properly anyway because they don’t take into account post-baby bodies when they make jeans or most pants for that matter. And I ain’t gonna run around in my maternity pants 7 years later just to have a pair of pants that fit properly. We just do what we can……GREAT POST!
I’m a guy. I walk in, buy a pair of jeans in my size, and I leave. Ba da bing, shopping done. No need for a machine.
i’d use it. i know i don’t wear the right bra size, but we don’t have any proper stores here to get fitted right. i’d give anything to find out what size i should actually be wearing, instead of trying different sizes and styles, none of which are quite right.
Why does it have to glass? Whats up with that! But I’d use it-i think…
Only if it made me look skinnier! Hey, I bought new running shoes this weekend…with the intention of course, of maybe motivating myself to use them…LOL!
HELL NO!!!! I’d rather guess my size, rather than have it spit out at me.
No. But we should invent a machine that determines what kind of bottom you have and then responds with things like, “nice ass’ and “hot hot hot.” I’d do that.
This machine is like that silly website that popped up a few years back, which was called something like “Hot or Not.” People could post a picture of themselves and let random people off the internet rate and comment on their appearance.
My morbid curiousity wondered about it, even if it was a stupid site. But, my own insecurities and fear prevented me from ever doing that. The same with the machine. I don’t WANT to hear that I’m a size that my mind cannot accept! I prefer living in denial.
No, I wouldn’t want to hear that… it would be painfull….
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OK, back again to say, how cool that you got the site of the day at Michele’s. OK, here’s the token, “Michele sent me.” HA!
Hi, Michele sent me.
I have zero interest in being measured by radio waves.
Michele sent me. AGAIN!
Congrats!