Pre-Sex and the City, MARY TYLER MOORE: A CELEBRATION, tomorrow. Tuesday on PBS at 8pm.

By Laura Medina

There have been a few "Sex and the City" pioneers, Helen Gurley-Brown, Marlo Thomas, and Mary Tyler Moore.

Mary Tyler Moore was an original outliner, a nice girl who never had the drive or the intention to get married, but seeks personal satisfaction through career and work.

As a pioneering "career gal/Sex and the City" woman, she pretty much set a standard for young women entering the world, living in a cute studio apartment while building a step for their career ladders.

That fact she was a nice girl striving in television news and journalism, she influenced real-life women who aspired to be in television journalism who are now charging today's social media.


Not only did Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared, she also influenced a generation of women to become more independent and to pursue successful and fulfilling careers.  “I think Mary Tyler Moore has had more influence on my career than any other single person or force,” says Oprah Winfrey in the documentary.  She reminisces about the time Moore surprised her during a taping of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” bringing her to tears. 

Gavin MacLeod, who played her WJM-TV colleague Murray Slaughter, refers to Moore as “a national treasure” in an emotional interview...

“Mary Tyler Moore was both inspirational and aspirational for many women who came of age in the 1970s. Her demeanor, style and beauty, along with her fierce loyalty to friends, was evidenced throughout her long and successful career, and radiated both on screen and off,” said Donald Thoms, Vice President of Programming for PBS. 

As a tribute to Mary Tyler Moore, PBS is running a special on her tomorrow night at 8pm.

With aspirations to become a dancer, Moore overcame a tumultuous childhood to land early TV and film roles that showcased her varied talents and brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. Discovered by Danny Thomas when she auditioned for the role of his daughter on “The Danny Thomas Show,” Moore catapulted to fame as Laura Petrie, the wife of TV writer Rob Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” from 1961-1966. Her character’s popularity and her appearance in films including Change of Habit with Elvis Presley and on variety shows with Van Dyke landed Moore a starring role as Mary Richards, the single and career-orientated TV news producer on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which debuted on September 19, 1970, and anchored American viewers’ Saturday night viewing habits for many years to come.

“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” ran for seven years and established the careers of MacLeod and most of the show’s other cast members. It won 29 Emmy Awards from 67 nominations and generated three spin-off series – “Rhoda,” “Phyllis” and “Lou Grant” – that were each successful in their own right. After the show ended, Moore starred on Broadway and received an Academy Award nomination for her role in the motion picture Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford. Moore’s television co-star Betty White says Ordinary People gave Moore the chance to “show the other side of this comedienne. I thought she was magnificent.”

Donald Thomas, Vice President of Programming for PBS. “PBS has a long history of documenting the lives and accomplishments of America’s great cultural icons. This salute to Ms. Moore is a tribute to her successful career and her place in American entertainment.”

For you Millennials, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" casually and humorously chatted about sex and relationships while on the job for those over 30 and divorced.  Topics that are surging strong as story lines, thirty years later, on "Sex and the City" and other shows where the central character is a strong, accomplished woman.

Tomorrow night is also the eve of the 45^th anniversary of the premiere of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” 

In addition to the special, you can catch the original Mary Tyler Moore Show episodes-for free-without commercials-on youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RH7prAIqw

 

 

Real Bras & Lingerie for Real Bodies from Lane Bryant, Eveden, & Jenette Bras.

By Laura Medina

 Jenette Goldstein of Jenette Bras, left.  Sales Associate, right.

Jenette Bras, The Alphabet Starts at the Letter "D."

 http://www.jenettebras.com/

The public in general have been let down by Victoria's Secret's heavy reliance on photoshopping.  Real women with real bodies have been disappointed in Victoria's Secret's very tiny and severly restricted sizing on bras and panties that they need.

Fed up, women are taking charge of the lingerie industry, from entrepreneurs such as Jenette Bras to brands like Eveden to chain stores, Lane Bryant's Cacique Intimates.

She went from battling "Aliens" to battling the very limiting sizing and fittings in "mall brand bras, Jenette Goldstein took charge.

Disappointed by generalized American bras, Jenette was taken back by the wide range of fit, sizes, and styles she discover shopping in Britain and Europe.

Surprisingly, the gorgeous, sexily constructed lingerie were and are meant for women with curves that are real body parts, not implants.

While researching and learning bra and lingerie construction, Aaron Noble (Jenette's husband) said that women with breast implants don't the support and the lift because the hardness of silicone implants makes the breasts stiff and hard to lift up...and immobile; and most women with implants tend to be on the skinny size, the target market for Victoria's Secret.  Manufacturing and designing bras for undersized women with implants or not isn't much of a thought, less of a challenge...for quicker profits.  Unfortunately, this leaves out women with real bodies and parts out of the margin but it is a very large and very profit margin that is being neglected.

Jenette Bras, Eveden, and Lane Bryant are more than happy to jump in and fill in the gap, while bringing society back to reality, proving real is sensual.

"Corsetry is comparable to shoemaking in the complexity of the product and the finesse required to produce exceptional results. Fine brassieres require more handwork than any other item of standard apparel in order to properly exploit the technical properties of various materials. Modern bras are a remarkable structural achievement. This seems to have become clear around the middle of the twentieth century."

 

Jenette Bras at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Sawtelle Avenue, at 11300 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90025, is a throwback to the last hurrah in "boudoir boutique," the "Mad Men" era of Late Fifties to Mid-Sixties.  The last era that really designed and engineered bras...

 

While sitting in the front waiting area, usually meant for men, you might be flipping through a vintage men's magazine when fully-formed breasts on mature women were desired.  Desired so much that a men's magazine went into details on bra engineering...

In the January, 1959 issue of CAPER, a second-string men’s magazine,...

"Says Henry Plehn, president of Peter Pan brassieres and one of the best silhouette engineers in the business, “More engineering time, skill, and effort goes into a brassiere than into a major steel and concrete bridge because of the unique stresses and strains involved. Among the sections to be harmoniously united: cups, stitching, hooks, eyes, wires, straps, gores, bones, bands, trimming and lining. Among the structural materials: cotton, nylon, silk, plush, batiste, rubber, plastic, iron and steel.” 

"In many respects, the challenge of enclosing and supporting a semi-solid mass of variable volume and shape involves a design effort comparable to that of building a bridge or a cantilevered skyscraper."

"Bra designers must solve the problem of providing an uplift against vertical (downward) and sometimes tangential forces. They have borrowed from the design of suspension bridges, supplying vertical supports of wire or bone that are similar to a bridge’s piers. Wire cages for the cups duplicate wire ropes supporting the bridge’s roadway."

 "The object of the designer then is to keep the bosom at a pleasing equilibrium in the face of gravity."

There's a reason why Jenette Bras' slogan, "The Alphabet Starts at the Letter "D," is because they cater to the fully-formed woman, not little girls who need training bras (today's bra industry is aiming on) but fully-formed women who actually need it but educated to spot quality when they see it.

 After wasting her adult years been fitted for "teen-bopper training bras" meant for minus-size zeroes, Jenette Goldstein took matters into her own hands, literally...

"Well, I come from a long line of women who are big on bosom and short on patience. So, enough already. Quality products, expert service, chic store."

  

"Let’s get the facts straight.  The band size, the measurement tight around your rib cage just under your breasts, is written as a number. The cup size represents the volume of your generous bosom. This is written as a letter. Cup size is relative to band size."

"So, again, being properly fitted is the key to wearing the perfect bra that will make you look and feel gorgeous. Choosing the right bra size and style for you can totally transform your figure. It can put curves back in all the right places, while giving you more comfort and confidence than ever."

This chutzpah spawns a mini-chain of three boutiques that educate and style a legion of die-hard Jenette Bra fans.

Some of the bras that Jenette Bras discovers and sells are so beautifully crafted that some women are wearing them as naughty but hip outerwear.

 

Eveden Bras isn't a chain store but an umbrella of Wacoal Europe representing the best in bra engineering in fast-forward fashion.

They represent:   

Bo Stanley for Lane Bryant

If you live in Middle America, not Manhattan or Los Angeles, have no fear.  Lane Bryant comes to the rescue with it's sexy Cacique Intimates modeled by the sensual Ashley Greene and swimwear and contemporary wear by ex-pro surfer/athlete and natural model, Bo Stanley.

They prove that curvy isn't only sexy but it is the natural muscle that is fit, healthy, and naturally normal.

http://www.lanebryant.com/cacique-plus-size-sexy-bras-intimate-apparel/4043/index.cat

Cacique Intimates at Lane Bryant is sexy and naughty as it is reasonably priced.  The bras are not just naughty but functional for challenging eveningwear necklines and straps from halter necks to one-shoulder to strapless.  The lingerie matches the gown and the cocktail dress.

As Jenette Goldstein of Jenette Bras mentioned, we fit the bra to the body, not fit the body to the bra.  That's real empowerment.