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I really liked Nicole Bobek's outfits from 1995-1998, particularly her ones from 1995. They were glittery yet sophisticated.
I was not aware that the color blue had been copyrighted by Yuna Kim (Akiko must have gotten the memo as she switched to lavender by 2012 Skate Canada), or that wearing it was a form of psychological terror! Thank you for enlightening me. Poor ladies, being terrorized by Akiko. She's a scary one.IMO, Kostner's costumes over the last TWO quads were as good as anybody's, on par with Sasha Cohen's, generally speaking. Criticizing Kostner's costumes and praising Suzuki's? Give me a break. Her dress, image linked to as Akiko by Buttercup, was a psychological terror directed to Asada, the way I see it. Remember Arakawa and Ando dressed themselves in Kim's Gershwin-esque blue dresses in a same Japanese domestic exhibition event right after Vancouver? Same kind of thing. Well, I guess it worked for Suzuki, since she won WC bronze that year while Asada finished 6th. I won't further comment on her other dresses referred in the Buttercup's post, though I liked her programs in some of those.
I was not aware that the color blue had been copyrighted by Yuna Kim (Akiko must have gotten the memo as she switched to lavender by 2012 Skate Canada), or that wearing it was a form of psychological terror! Thank you for enlightening me. Poor ladies, being terrorized by Akiko. She's a scary one.I do wonder, though, why didn't she wear it all season, if that was her goal?
But wait, didn't Arakawa wear a blue dress first? Perhaps everyone has been copying her! Or maybe it was the Kween whom everyone was trying to emulate? It couldn't have been Nadine Ahmed's dress; she wasn't well-known enough, and anyway the skirt is too long.
No, they're all copying Nadine Ahmed. They are probably jealous because even though she's really not much of an ice dancer, she is the future Mrs. Kerr. And Murakami could actually be trying to psych out Carolina Kostner by reminding her that she's not as young as she once was. Yes, that is clearly it.^^ No, it's not about Yuna Kim having a monopoly on anything. Yes, anybody can wear any color. Usually, I couldn't care less even if somebody is dressed exactly like someone else. My comments were about what I see in the particular costume you picked as your favorite, and in the costume choice Suzuki made. Is the resemblance only in color, really? With the Arakawa's exhibilition costume I mentioned, similarity to Kim's Gershwin dress was even more striking. It's about the choices made by the Japanese ladies, not about others'. Interesting is that, Murakami's new FS this year is to Papa, Can You Hear Me, the same Yentl OST track Kim skated to in another case of her crushing win over Asada at JWC. All coincidence? Possibly. Hint of intention or design? Yes, the way I see this kind of things in skating. Am I saying it's wrong if it's true? No. You don't agree? Fine, but please don't change or distort what I said.
It's bullpen - one word. Bullpen the location is the place where relievers throw before entering a game, but bullpen also refers to a team's relief pitchers (source, another source, another source). When someone claims that, say, "the Dodgers have a good bullpen", it does not mean that they have a pretty bullpen with lovely amenities. While starters sometimes throw there as well, the term is not generally associated with them. Or with weak pitching. So, to repeat: baseball terminology, you're doing it wrong.About the baseball thing, I believe you would be aware that bull pen means a warm up area for the pitchers, primarily; and relievers/closers, secondarily.
Actually, the lavender dress was made first. Suzuki had two new dresses made for 2012 Worlds, a pale blue one for FS and the lavender for EX. The pale blue dress looked nice in a fitting room but not so on the ice. So they decided to make a royal blue dress using the lavender's pattern in the last minutes.
The lavender dress may have been made before the royal blue one, and the blue may have been patterned on the lavender, but both have an extremely uncanny resemblance to Yu-Na Kim's 2010 Olympics FS dress in terms of design.
Akiko Suzuki, 2012 Worlds: http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Akiko+Suzuki+2012+ISU+World+Figure+Skating+G-25nnf0KJvl.jpg
Yu-Na Kim, 2010 Olympics: http://media.npr.org/assets/news/20...4d35ae6e66ef53aa1b350134ef7e3e3e81-s3-c85.jpg
Personally, I loved Akiko Suzuki's first costume that season the best: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GCE_6QnBybc/TrC4k0PJ1II/AAAAAAAASb8/7hryGsEfmb0/s1600/Akiko1.jpg There was no need for her to change it or look to other dresses for inspiration.
Well, Kim better bring her patent lawyer to Sochi to sue everyone in a halter-neck dress, claiming the design as her intellectual property.