So now that it is just us here is the press release that will go out tomorrow for the show:
STACY LONDON PRODUCES NEW TLC FASHION SERIES ON ONE-OF-A-KIND BROOKLYN CLOTHING BOUTIQUE
New series follows husband and wife team as they set out to conquer the plus-size fashion world
(NEW YORK, NY) – It’s plus-size fashion without the minuses of mainstream retail traditions in TLC’s newest series. Executive produced by WHAT NOT TO WEAR’s fashion authority, Stacy London, with BBC Worldwide Productions, this eight-part series set to premiere in May 2012 will follow husband and wife business owners Lisa and Jim Dolan, as they revise and revolutionize the norms of plus-size shopping experiences in their clothing store, Lee Lee’s Valise. Each episode will focus on three different customers as their intimate shopping experience at the store, combined with Lisa’s distinctive clothing line, helps transform their lives.
The average size of an American woman is 14, but no average-sized American woman experiences a normal shopping experience at a typical fashion retailer as only 18% of clothes are a size 14 or over. At Lee Lee’s Valise, women of all shapes and sizes feel confident, fashionable and sexy through Lisa’s custom-made designs, tailored business approach and bold NY personality. Through drama, laughs and a few tears, Lisa and her team will transform their customers’ wardrobe from shab to fab -- all through the simple and personalized accommodations to fit and flaunt each unique body type.
Running a successful business with a unique focus may seem like a walk in Central Park, but for this outspoken duo, drama is inevitable. While Lisa and Jim have a strong opinion about each and every item in Lee Lee’s Valise, they always put the customer first. Often times the customer’s feedback and personal shopping experience plays a vital role in how Lisa designs her line and stocks her shop.
The series is produced by BBC Worldwide Productions for TLC. Executive Producers are Scott Shatsky with Stacy London and Julie Merson executive producing for Super Long Play . Elli Hakami and Jane Tranter are executive producers for BBC Worldwide Productions.
I have to say...this looks like it's going to be awesome, Trooper!
ReplyDeleteWe're all proud of you!
I'm so gonna watch this. When's the premier again?
ReplyDeleteI've already told all my friends about your show, you know Troop, before I lost that 30 pounds I was wearing a 14, Damn, I should gain it back! It would be soooo fun doing it.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great release, I can't wait to watch it!
First Tuesday in May.
ReplyDeleteLisa is gorgeous, love the dress!
ReplyDeleteStacy will be doing a few cameos where I tell her to eat a fucking meatball.
ReplyDeleteAnd by that I don't mean Snookie or Dena.
ReplyDeleteas they revise and revolutionize the norms
ReplyDeleteWho better? I recall two episodes of WNTW where participants experienced their "aha" moment of awareness in your shop. It was the high point of the show both times.
Hey, Mr.&Mrs., all best wishes for the success of this long worked-for opportunity. Good for you, after all that work; good on you, for taking the leap.
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Congratulations. Well-deserved. When is the party? I've got the first round.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
ReplyDeleteI want to be a Lisa groipie. Where do I sign up for that?
I am so pleased for you! But what will they call the show???
ReplyDeleteThat is still up in the air.
ReplyDeleteFirst it was supposed to be called "Danger Curves Ahead." But then they changed it.
One lame name they came up with is
"On the Plus Side." Which we sort of vetoed.
So they still have to come up with a name.
I made it. Be afraid.
ReplyDeleteRuth Anne Adams said...
ReplyDeleteI am so pleased for you! But what will they call the show???
How about "Trouble and Strife" or "That Brooklyn Show"
I'm sure we could all suggest something better.
"The Court Street Jester"
ReplyDelete"Order in the Court St"
"Court Street Blues"
"Full Court St. Press"
The idea of 8 shows is smart. Enough to establish a following and then who knows? the sky's the limit.
ReplyDeleteDanger Curves Ahead is awful. Beg them, if you have to, to not give the show a ditzy title.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the 8 shows a very British way of approaching it? They only have 7 or 8 shows of Downton each 'series' which we call 'seasons.'
ReplyDeleteHere's my suggestion: Valise Navidad.
Dolan Out
ReplyDeleteKeep the Girls Happy
Who's the focus? Lisa? The customer? The store? Is Jim relegated to the Archie Bunker sit-in-his-chair-and-watch-the-world-go-by role?
Dolan: The Family
Why not just Lee Lee's Valise: The Show?
Poll time for the name for the show. Good call on nixing "On the Plus Side."
ReplyDeletePossibilities:
Tits.
Allie is a fucking commie
Problems of a Shopkeeper
Whose that girl
Hey, Problems of a Shopkeeper ain't half bad.
ReplyDeleteBut Lee Lee's Valise is the way to go.
I'm going to wheel in this summer and ask for autographs.
ReplyDeleteAnd you know your friends are going to tweet about every episode while it's being aired, right?
Damn Windbag, that Allie is a Commie title sounds great, especially if Obama wins reelection! Or The Bra Fitters of Court Street.
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I go with Lee Lee's Valise.
Wow.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right about size-ism in retail. There's not even much variety in the 10-12 end of the rack (real sizes not the "new" sizes)...everything is aimed at the 0's and wannbees.
There's also little regard for us taller gals...which is why Lands End gets most of my jeans and pants bidness...or I buy men's Levi's.
Anyhoo...enough about me...I'm so amped to watch your show.
If you served your customers Earl Grey and cakes you could call the show "Teacups and D Cups".
ReplyDeleteChip S suggetsed: Teacups and D Cups
ReplyDeleteOff The Rack
The Rack Pack
Forget "The Rack Pack"
ReplyDeleteTha would be fitting if garage were involved.
note to self: dyslexic much?
ReplyDeleteI'll bet the cross-dressers are larger than a 14.
ReplyDeleteWe should have a gang symbol Trooper can flash in each episode. Here's sign language for tits.
Allie, those are all Trooper's tags, so they're all inspired.
ReplyDeleteRiffing off Allie:
ReplyDeleteLook here, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a bra fit.
(Gospel according to Jim 4:13)
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ReplyDeleteHe could flash the boobie sign at the end of each episode, to let us know he loves us, just like Carol Burnet tugging at her ear!
ReplyDeleteBurnett!
ReplyDeleteStaying Abreast!
ReplyDeleteOr, in keeping with the locale, F*ck You, Buy Your F*ckin' Clothes Here, You F*ck!
Maybe that's more Joisey...
We should have a gang symbol Trooper can flash in each episode. Here's sign language for tits.
ReplyDeleteLOL, a sign of bounty
The word Boob underneath as he stands there gesturing is fun.
If TY can pull that off with a straight face, anything goes.
I will be putting up a post as to why it will not be called "Lee Lee's Valise" the show.
ReplyDeleteNow that we are a limited group I can share a lot more of what is going on day by day.
Of course you guys should tweet.
ReplyDeleteIt is going to be two half hour shows back to back on Tuesday right after "What Not to Wear."
They are putting us on in the sweeps month instead of "Say Yes to the Dress."
That tells you something.
I wanted to call it "Say Yes to more than one fucking Dress" but they wouldn't go for it.
ReplyDeleteWhoa. Heard thru the grapevine that someone did something that Troop predicted they might.
ReplyDeleteHow ridiculously 5th grade.
I hear that, Darce. Wait, you weren't talkin' about me, right?
ReplyDeleteNopes, not you, Sixty. You're adorbs, anyway.
ReplyDeleteAw, now it's my turn to blush. Okay, maybe I was just standing too close to the fire. Back to it...
ReplyDeleteOK, I'm intrigued, who what where how? Come on spill the beans.
ReplyDeleteHeard thru the grapevine that someone did something that Troop predicted they might.
ReplyDeleteTitus pinched a loaf?
How about this logo Troop:
ReplyDeletebuttons, t-shirts and hats for the club?
Found it Darcy, interesting, I wonder how many have come knocking on the stage door?
ReplyDeleteDarcy I left you a comment in the You know You Are Living, thread about low carbing.
ReplyDeleteOooooooo! Nothing makes a club more fun than gossip and speculation. Love the new avatar Allie!
ReplyDeleteI'll share what I know via email, Allie. tennistari@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteOop. Didn't know you saw it, Allie. Will check the other thread for the low carb stuff.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I can ever go without pasta for good. But I do avoid it for the most part.
It's soooo good when I cheat, though. ;-)
Zaftig! <--mandatory exclamation point
ReplyDeleteHips Ahoy! <--another one
Baby Got Back: The Series
MamaM, it's an illustration from a vintage children's book, Lazy Tinka, written and illustrated by Hungarian born Kate Seredy. I collect vintage children's books, she is one of my favorite author / illustrators.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think the old witch is whispering in Tinka's ear?
I added a lengthy comment on carbs over in the living thread. Hope you don't mind if I butt in.
ReplyDeleteNot at all Windbag, will go look.
ReplyDeleteCurve quotes for inspiration, anyone? (Seriously, Trooper, some of them might provoke an idea that would work for everyone.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, a number of them are very cool, just for the reading.)
Separately, I am so totally out of it these days that I'm entirely clueless as to what a good chunk of these comments are about (apart from the "name this new reality show" ones).
ReplyDeleteOy.
"Big Splendor"
ReplyDeleteMan, Mae West was such a dame: I love her way with words.
ReplyDeleteChristina Hendricks' quote makes me think of "Curvy to the Bone," but that's really more an album sorta name than a reality show one.
ReplyDelete"Curved"
ReplyDelete"Curved Beauty"
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A one letter change from cursed to curved. The crooked made straight.
Thanks r,c for the link. This one is a personal keeper.
Apologies rcommal, not R,C--again the difference of a letter.
ReplyDeleteI know I predicted the Giants were going to be in the Super Bowl.
ReplyDeleteParaphrasing Einstein: "Space curves when it matters"
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking about the new show and how much we've been a part of the development of the show themes and everything else Lee Lee and Trooper related.
ReplyDeleteWe all should get co-producer mentions in the credits. And frankly, when you win an Emmy, we're all coming on stage. There are things we need to say.
How about, Danger Curves Ahead?
ReplyDeleteLike this?
ReplyDeleteCaution, I like Danger, it's sounds sexier.
ReplyDeleteHow about, "Into Fitting Couture"? or some other word rearrangement that would imply finding clothing that fits you rather than trying to change your body so that it will fit into outfits.
ReplyDeleteI think dbp is on to something with that.
ReplyDeleteThat's really what you guys do: Provide clothes that fit versus forcing women into ones that don't.
Valise Caprice? Capiche? how the heck do you spell that word?
ReplyDeleteI just got into Trooper secret blog.
ReplyDeleteI am so excited.
My nipples are hard and I am hoping for large tits.
tits.
MamaM we have been deliberating about whether you are a womyn so why don't you show us your tits?
ReplyDeleteI want them large, milky, with erect yet supple nips.
Now show em whore.
Hey now it's a party!
ReplyDeleteI am the token fag here and I want to thank all of you for excepting me as a big fucking fag.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard out there being a fag.
You never know what you are going to get.
I am hated because I am fag and that hurts.
But here I can be a big mo and you guys are ok with me, kinda, and that makes my cry a little.
tits.
How about "Hawt Couture"?
ReplyDeleteHey Titus--good to see you finally made it!
But be nice to MamaM.
Trooper-I'm sad that you didn't even notice the avatar I handmade for you. It took me close to an hour. :(
ReplyDeleteTitus! You finally get in and start thrusting; and the first words out of your mouth are a call for MamaM and her bounty to help you complete the job???
ReplyDeleteThis is almost as good as getting my own show.
Woo hoo!
ReplyDeleteI can hardly wait. I'm making my husband watch with me!
Probably have to bribe him with scotch. LOL
I just know you guys will be a big success! Try to remember the little people who ....oh wait...plus sized.....try to remember us zoftig types.
Thanks chickenlittle...I don't know that Titus can contain himself. The excitement of finding the secret passageway and shoehorning himself into something besides the mouth of a stuffed animal seems to have him and the mouse in his pocket all worked up tonight.
ReplyDeleteRuth Anne said: Capiche? how the heck do you spell that word?
ReplyDeleteCapire (to understand)
Present indicative:
io capisco
tu capisci
lui/lei capisce
noi capiamo
voi capite
loro capiscono
TMI, I know.
Are you kidding chickie. Can I use that on the blog?
ReplyDeleteI would love to do that.
@Trooper:
ReplyDeleteOf course you can use it! There's a bigger version at my profile. I want to make you a badge from the TY logo and send it to you. Anybody else too.
I made a different badge for Meade: link. I could also retool that one to read: "Tread On Meade" if you like.
My dad left me a "Badge-A-Minit"
ReplyDeleteProvide clothes that fit versus forcing women into ones that don't.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like the making of an effective mission statement, to me anyway, and a pointed one with no bullshit about it. It also sounds like a decent basis for brainstorming approaches to marketing/PR/media presentations. Again, to me, any way
Shorter: I agree with Blake, and, by extension, dbp, in terms of a solid direction worth considering of pursuit.
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ReplyDeleteI love my logo chickie.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I think you should ask Meade's permission to use his wife's likeness on his button. Just sayn'
I can say shit like that now that it is just us chickens. Just sayn'
ReplyDeleteI am going to talk about the theory behind the store and our mission statement in some posts as we go along.
ReplyDeleteHow about naming the show:
ReplyDeleteFashion Plus
By the way if anyone has AllenS or RogerJ's email please ask them to email me at trooperkirbyyork@live.com so I can send an invite to the festivities.
ReplyDeleteWe really are adamant about not using plus in the title if we can avoid it DBQ.
ReplyDeleteYou see we don't like to be categorized as a "plus" store. If everyone else is a minus then we are a plus. We are just a boutique with different sizes.
I'm pretty sure that garage has Roger J's email addy. I don't. I have garage's phone # if you me to call him ask.
ReplyDeleteI suspect my contributions here are tending toward the too-serious. Upon reflection, I realize that no one actually asked for my opinion, and that is an important thing, that realization. On that basis, bowing out of this thread I am, best wishes and regards strewn in my wake.
ReplyDeleteThat would be cool. And extend an invite to garage too. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHey we need to leaven the folly with a little seriousness now and then.
ReplyDeleteJust don't delete it whatever it is. We want to hear it.
Nothing is considered "clutter"
here.
We are like "Hoarders" for comments. Just sayn'
I hate when she bows out like that.
ReplyDeleteCome back, r,l
And how come you never told me what cool chemistry set you got for your son a couple weeks ago?
I'd call garage right now but it's late back there and he's probably hunched over his laptop in the dark watching last year's superbowl.
ReplyDeleteHe is most likely watching a replay of the State of the Union and is hunched over his penis. Just sayn'
ReplyDeleteI hate when she bows out like that.
ReplyDeleteCome back, r,l
Pulling a thread back on track and setting synapses to snapping with Cool Curve Quotes was no mean feat.
Tits R Us has not yet been suggested.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the invite to the private club, and congratulations on the forthcoming show!
ReplyDeleteSo will LeeLee's be the first boutique to sell our curvaceous perfumes?
Yeah, I'm a desperate man.
Anyway, you guys are naturals for television.
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ReplyDeleteI love the diversity of the commenters here, from the serious to the hilarious to the profane, that's what makes visiting at Troopers hose so interesting!
ReplyDeleteMy iPad spelled house, hose, no it wasn't me. How's that for a title, Troopers Hose? No that might be suggestive.
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ReplyDeleteBelated Congratulations. BTW, every "reality show"* needs a villain. Wonder who you could get?
ReplyDeleteHmm...
* assuming the label applies.
SCORE!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI got chickenlittle to keyboard the letters "h-a-t-e": nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah! ; )
For those of us whose sense of humor, and lord knows whose meanings, appear to have settled into some sort of permanent mystery, this is quite the achievement, and so I'll settle for that.
Sincerely, chick, XXOO.
R,
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@r,l:
ReplyDeleteI hate to admit it but you tricked me. You didn't flounce away last night, did you?
Save the last flounce for me.
I will, chickenlittle.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, I'll be taking care of business (including that of which almost none of you are aware and vanishingly fewer from what I can tell).
Hey, have any of you taken in neighborhood kids lately? I'd bet not.
So it goes.
[A reminder, yet again: It's not just what folks say, it's what they do.]
Excuse me for being busy, please.
ReplyDeleteHey, have any of you taken in neighborhood kids lately? I'd bet not.
ReplyDeleteOh R,L, it's so wise of you to be wary of strangers. Especially ones engendering h.a.t.e!!!
MamaM was ALMOST taken in by the Whispering Witch in Allie's lovely new avatar. Good thing she knows how to read lips and signs.
What is the Sainted Woman pictured really whispering in Lazy Trinket's Ear???
The Seredy Prayer, of course.
Hmmm. I'm thinking I need to start a second pot of coffee. My brain is apparently in a fog of not understanding.
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R,L MamaM speaks in code.:)
ReplyDeleteMamaM, the Hungarian witch can cook up some good goulash, I bet. Everyone has some redeeming qualities.
ReplyDelete"Splendor in the Glass"
ReplyDelete"Diff'rent Splendors"
I'm hooked on the splendor.
"Splenda without the Headache" would work too.
Wish there was a way to convey something about a "Diff'rent Reality", or "Another View" as the focus of the show appears to be about enhancement, encouragement and affirmation of something real, going on within the women, the store, the neighborhood and the fashion industry.
"Real Splendor"
Everyone has some redeeming qualities.
ReplyDeleteSo true Allie. Which is I have not yet told you to Fuck Off and fly away on your broomstick.
MamaM, sheesh. Give it a rest.
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ReplyDeleteI posted a comment about kindness and the kindness of an extraordinary human , my husband. Your comment directly after that warranted what I said to you.
ReplyDeleteBUT there comes a time when one does just have to give it a rest.
"Real Splendor"
ReplyDeleteI like that name because it has the double entendre which I use in "El Pollo Real."
One of Jimi Hendrix's last recordings was Dolly Dagger. It was supposed go on the posthumously-released "Cry of Love" but was delayed for contractual reasons (people are still fighting over rights to Hendrix's works).
ReplyDeleteAnyways all this talk about witches and broomsticks reminded me of the lyrics:
Been ridin' broomsticks since she was fifteen
Blowin' out all the other witches on the scene
She got a bullwhip just as long as your life
Her tongue can even scratch the soul out of the devil's wife
Well, I seen her in action at the Player's Choice
Turn all the lover men into donor boys
Hey red hot mama, you better step aside
This chick's gonna turn you to a block of ice
Look out!
Some awesome pickin' going on in that piece, CL! Same with the Dick Dale solo posted in Jan, only there the music outdid the words.
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