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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 09:54 AM
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White Jumpsuite for Eating Beignets?

Which designer makes the perfect white jumpsuit for eating beignets? That powdered sugar gets everywhere!! Every time I eat breakfast, I must rush back to the hotel and change clothes.

If I carry a backpack, I could remove the jumpsuit after breakfast and carry it with me, so I save time without returning to my hotel to change clothes.

But, who makes the finest white jumpsuits?

Thanx for your help, everyone!
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 10:01 AM
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La Maison de la Blanche Vetements de Sautee; rue de la Boulangerie, Paris 19em!
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 10:21 AM
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If you wear a crispy pink running suit, the sugar just brushes right off. That's why crispy pink is so popular among American tourists.
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 10:32 AM
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We live in a town with a Naval Air Station, and those young men wear some nice jumpsuits.
Although the ones I have seen are not white, they have plenty of pockets for your extra beignets, and zippers to keep them safe from the Ever Present Beignet PickPockets in Europe.
I hope this helps.~S
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 10:44 AM
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I think you should be more concerned with the lingerie you'll be exposing once you remove the jumpsuit. Basic black, with a lot of lace, perhaps?
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Elvis? Is that you? Where've you been?
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 12:51 PM
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Pink is the new brown!
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 01:42 PM
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What IS a "jumpsuite" ?
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 01:56 PM
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A jumpsuite might be a small room that allows you to jump from the bed to the tub without having to step on the floor..They are usually found in pensions in Spain and in budget hotels in Paris.
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 02:29 PM
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Omigosh, LOL Scarlett!
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 02:53 PM
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China cat, does this crispy running "suite" make a sqeaking sound when you walk? Or only when you eat?
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Crispy running suite sounds like a new dish at the Chinese Take-out!
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 04:17 PM
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All I could think of was Mary Pierce at Wimbleton a few years back...somehow I don't think she eats beignets...
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 04:23 PM
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Hi uhoh, have you moved already?
If so, are you loving it?
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Diana Rigg, who played Mrs. Peel in The Avengers TV series in the 60s, had a white vinyl jumpsuit costume that (according to Hello! magazine) she was allowed to keep after the series folded in 1969.

She has it still.

Unfortunately, after 35 years of eating beignets and their UK equivalent, ham butties, she weighs (despite what you might imagine from her many 1990s Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! roles) about 275 pounds.

So the jumpsuit stays in her closet -- or fitted wardrobe, as the English say....
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Diana Rigg weighs almost 300 lbs!!
I don't know what to say.
I loved her as a controlling killer mother on some PBS movie but I cannot imagine her so .....large.
How are you & yours tedgale? (not as large, I am sure ) LOL
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A little larger than I want to be but far from 300 pounds -- or 130.08 Kg, as we say here in Canada.

Hot and humid weather has finally arrived and I am finding this white vinyl jumpsuit just a tad sweaty and confining.
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LOL, that is exactly what Elvis said!!
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 05:26 PM
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When I think of a white jumpsuit, I think of Stephanie Powers from A WOMAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

I saw Diana Rigg three years ago in a London club (Groucho). She was wearing a cape and a back turtleneck sweater. She looked enormous, but the cape hid a lot. I think she had four puddings and a whole bottle of Champagne. Paul Simon was also having lunch at the Groucho that afternoon. He had food all down the front of his shirt. Between the two of them, I was going to make a pool of sick.
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Old Jun 7th, 2005, 05:56 PM
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Paul Simon -- what a slob! At least the sainted Stephanie Powers would never drop food on her clothes!

Always a lady, never a star, as her agent once said of her.
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