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size retrictions on costumes? Y?N?
Please explain why/ why not

i ent even too sure what a frontline is... but if it is as it sounds, then I disagree and agree.
I mean, so long as yuh can buy the costume and jump you should be able to wear it. Its discrimination to not be able to because you dont fit the size criteria.

but at the same time, we all know sex sells and look at how yall carry on about the costumes and the models wearin them. Yuh think if they had pics of some obese people in these costumes yall would feel the same way about them? I doubt it. They would NOT look the same due to larger sizes and beads an ting hung differently. So if thats how life goes, why de bands cant want the better lookin costumes representin them in de frontline?

Sheeiiit! at de rate yall outta control, they soon gonna have good lookin requirement, and winin requirement (which I would advocate) too.

I think if a band is trying to look good its reasonable to have some size restrictions espeically when you're talking about bikini and beads costumes. Hopefully bands will keep their restrictions reasonable though and not only look for tall, Tyra Banks types. Don't exclude real women; but they have the right to demand that the women look fit, healthy and appealing.

I totally disagree on restrictions on the size of a masquerader. That is why women do such drastic things to make sure that they are able to get into their costume.

If i had a band my only requirement is green dollars.

good points...........

bwaaaaaaaaaaaah
good looking people sections only
if yuh ugly u need not apply
i could see it now....

i aint a costume desinger, but i highly doubt that
costume pieces only come in certain sizes...
i could be wrong though, its a matter of putting
beads and feathers together on some fabric
a lil extra for the people with more size
but its doable......bra n panties does come in all sizes so
i really doubt that the pieces are the problem

I personally think that its a matter of appearance
and what looks better/ is more appealing to the eyes

nah, im sure that does play an issue. Is not everything you can get in every size.... but the question is, if you arent able to find the piece in all desired sizes, does that costume have to be the frontline?

but then again, like I said before.... I really doh know anything about this whole mas ting, so.....

Pre-ordered peices is one thing...I see no problem with that especially if the band have other frontline sections with no size retrictions.
But What I don't like is if the costume is clearly easy to adjust according to size but when you call up the mas camp they tell you the restrictions or if you and a chubby friend go in person to register and the person at the camp take one look at your pleasingly plump friend and tell you the section is sold out, but give me your number and I'll call if a space is open. A day later later they call you to get your skinny self in the "soldout" section...true story folks and it didn't happen in any of the new crop of bands, this happened way before.

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i don't either, but if the band/section leaders really
wanted to include everybody there would be no restrictions
they would have found an alternative

I agree that there should be size restrictions, been saying so for years. Even though I on the thick side.

Reason: some women treat carnival costumes like everything else in fashion - they doh realise that not every style is for everybody. I will never forget de sights that greeted my eyes in de Queens Park Savannah on carnival Tues for the five years leading up to the time that I left TT. And it seemed to be getting worse every year. I always blame the bandleaders, cause if they not offering the costumes in those sizes then the women cannot wear them.

I am not saying that there shouldn't be any big people in the band. But let's face it, big (and especially the very big) people come with fat, cellulite and all manner of bulges, bumps and shapes. A string bikini with thong that might look like de bomb on a skinny gyal WILL NOT look good on someone weighing in excess of 200 pounds!

Costumes should be tastefully designed to suit bigger people. AND NO TWO PIECE, please, for the love of God! There could be variations of the section just for the bigger gals (I doh see why not cause sections have like 3 variations these days). Give them things to enhance their beauty and make them still feel sexy. Not have them in de same tings de fit body gals wearing, with no consideration for their size and the extra flesh available to expose. Then have them looking ridiculous, and have people laughing at them and your band.

Big people deserve as much time and consideration when designing your band, cause their money just as good as anybody else.

Actually I'm not speaking from speculation, I'm speaking from fact. All those cute little crystal costumes you all have been loving so much... well they only come wholesale in certain sizes – especially the bras: 32A – 36C; panties xsmall, small and medium (we haven’t found them in large yet)… Which is why, at least in Tribe, there are restrictions on our Nylon Pool section. I'm sure it's the same for IP but don't quote me on that since I cannot speak for them.

I'm still getting the in-and-out of TNT mas camps and carnival. Which is so different from Brazil. The Rio camps makes their own costumes and the "frontline" are chosen by the camp. Which reduce the craziness for people to get in a section until close to carnival when sections are sold out.

LSK, I understand your point too, I remember the thread of the camps buying pieces from wholesale. Which only leads them to a limit amount of sizes they can buy ahead of time.

I totally agree.