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[Mmmme...]

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An ad that will take you back.... I think this company ended up facing charges. I imagine many gals were duped & disappointed.









The Fabulous Mark Eden
Bust Developer
Plastic, metal, and leather
Accompanying booklet, dated 1965, featuring actress June Wilkinson "Famous star of stage and screen, the girl with the world's loveliest bustline"

With six of these fabulous items in my possession, I think I can safely say that I now have the World's Largest Collection of Mark Eden Bust Developers. If there is someone out there who owns more, I sure would like to hear from them.
I bought my first one nearly thirty years ago, long before I conceived of Julie's Tacky Treasures. Something about the audacious claims of breast enlargement appealed to me. I had to laugh at the brazen exploitation of manufacturing hundreds of these useless pink clamshells, equipping them with a heavy-duty spring, and promising buyers that using one would "subtly transform them as a woman."
The Mark Eden Bust Developer was sold in two different versions, the only difference being the wording on the accompanying booklet. The earlier book was so much more effusive in its claims, something it later had to tone down under threat of mail fraud.

"So many women who have been literally 'flat as boards' have achieved higher, fuller, lovelier bustlines in a remarkably short time with the Mark Eden method. And a woman whose bustline is suddenly transformed from the average or below average to a richer fuller development receives more for her efforts than just a larger reading on the tape measure. She is subtly transformed as a woman. There is an incomparable difference in the entire feminine line, shape, and grace of her whole figure. Her very presence takes on a new and subtle glow of womanliness, of sex-appeal, and yes, of glamour that is undeniable and unmistakable."

If you weren't convinced by this florid prose, or by the celebrity endorsement of the forgettable June Wilkinson, then by golly, once you read the directions for the eight different exercises with the bust developer, you knew it HAD to be real. After all, why would there be an Exercise no. 8 if it didn't really work? That was the one you were instructed to do to develop the individual breast, in case one of yours was "lagging behind."

Indeed, the Fabulous Mark Eden Bust Developer is an example of a complete lack of taste with the goal of exploiting women's vanity and insecurity in order to make heaps of money. Before the U.S. Postal Service shut Mark Eden down with a fraud order in 1966, about 18,000 of them sold at $9.95 a piece. Without any research, Mark Eden claimed a "scientific breakthrough," although he had no medical background, and had never contacted medical experts until after the fraud case was filed.

The second version of the exercise booklet no longer featured June Wilkinson, perhaps in response the revelation that she was already known for prominent breasts as a young girl. She and her breasts went back to Hollywood to act in "B" movies.

In April of 2004, People magazine published a photograph of one of my Mark Eden Bust Developers (People, ISSN 0093-7673, April 12, 2004, vol. 61 no. 14, p. 265). In addition, one of the exercise manuals appeared in the Canadian documentary Flatly Stacked, which examines whether a flat-chested woman can find happiness in a breast-obsessed world. Life becomes a little weird when the things I own are more famous than I am, but I'm getting used to it.

borrowed from http://www.tackytreasures.com/top/markeden.html

thought perhaps a photo of june would be a good idea




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Wilkinson

I worked for a company when I lived in Ottawa and my boss had a different woman every month. One woman he dated had tried everything to increase her bust line... until one day she became pregnant....
You mentioned some women's vanity.... This person breast fed her kid until he was 9 or 10...........
Just kidding....
However the kid must have been close to 5 when she was forced to stop as she couldn't get time off to feed him at school
Had I not been there and saw all this for myself I would not believe it.
The sad thing is that this woman was quite intelligent... or so I thought. She headed up a team who worked on/wrote the free trade agreement...

[fuimus1]

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However the kid must have been close to 5 when she was forced to stop as she couldn't get time off to feed him at school
Had I not been there and saw all this for myself I would not believe it.
The sad thing is that this woman was quite intelligent... or so I thought. She headed up a team who worked on/wrote the free trade agreement...

Is this why the free trade agreement "sucks"

[madchives]

[QUOTE=Mmmme...;3942585]

I worked for a company when I lived in Ottawa and my boss had a different woman every month. One woman he dated had tried everything to increase her bust line... until one day she became pregnant....
You mentioned some women's vanity.... This person breast fed her kid until he was 9 or 10...........
Just kidding....
However the kid must have been close to 5 when she was forced to stop as she couldn't get time off to feed him at school
Had I not been there and saw all this for myself I would not believe it.
The sad thing is that this woman was quite intelligent... or so I thought. She headed up a team who worked on/wrote the free trade agreement...

holy crap - wonder how the boy is now.
never did like the free trade agreement.

found a signed photo of june, lovely penmanship

[Andit]

Nightly Recap
Trivia
btwf - coachbuilder
iwl - scotland
witw - turkish
wsi - tyler durden (fight club)
c.r.c. - alice cooper
Winner:
madchives

http://www.q107.com/Contests/CashGrab/Home.aspx
Cash Grab Words:
10:30pm - born to be wild
Winner:
crazyredneck

1:30am - Black Dog
Winner:
Neon

3:30am - WALKING ON THE MOON
Winner:
mizzsazzyazz

7:30am - Fame
Winner:
mizzsazzyazz

11:30am - Don't Stand So Close To Me
Winner:
Neon
Honourable Mention:
ecat444
Karl Stiel

1:30pm - I was made for lovin' you
Winner:
db band

3:30pm - Higher love
Winner:
db band

5:30pm - comfortably numb
Winner:
db band
Honourable Mention:
Argo53

7:30pm - We can work it out
Winner:
ecat444


Hope everyone enjoyed their day.

I snuck off early (I wasn't in the mood to watch The Odd Couple twice in one day, however good it is).

I'm off to my parents' tomorrow & will likely stay til Monday (lots of pics to look at ). I haven't told the critters yet - I have to keep it secret or they'll be sitting in front of the door all night.

Night all.

[Andit]

Thanks for your well wishes... I feel better already (not really, just kidding).

Lawn is going to have to wait much longer, 'cuz they're calling for rain tomorrow. We're also going to see Chess the musical. According to Andit, there's plenty of eye candy, but I hope not just for women

Here's hoping the eye candy makes you feel better.

The costumes reminded me of Studio 54. & the first song in the second act (One Night in Bangkok) had very talented dancers wearing gold lamme costumes (there was maybe a handkerchief's worth of material to go around) doing interesting acrobatics on a pole. Certainly not a show for those living in a convent.

Have fun! I'll be curious to hear what you think of the show.

[fuimus1]

Here's hoping the eye candy makes you feel better.

Madchives has already added the eye candy to this page!

[Andit]

Madchives has already added the eye candy to this page!

Only for half the viewers. I suppose the rest of us will have to use our imaginations.

[Mmmme...]

and looking out your window or out your front or back door and you see this in the sky...

[psells]

madchives has already added the eye candy to this page!

10, 9, 8, 7, ...

[Mmmme...]

(from my mom's friend)

After a relaxing bath, Monica Lewinsky was looking at herself naked in a mirror...remembering the time with Bill Clinton.

Her frustration over her inability to lose weight was depressing her.

In an act of desperation, she decided to call on God for help...
"God, if you take away my love handles, I'll devote my life to you," she prayed.

And just like that, her ears fell off!

[elmo57]

Off to saun!

Life is GRAND!!!!!

[ecat444]

Off to saun!

Life is GRAND!!!!!

I had one earlier today, usually have mine before my shower every second day! I felt pretty tired, couldn't sleep, kept hearing John Kay singing "God Damn the Pusher Man" etc. in my head!!! Glad I went it was really a good show, great to see him doing well after all these years, some of these guys came through all those psych years doing fine - great to see and hear!

[user-id]

Strange things are happening to me by Randy Newman

http://youtu.be/uRNo1NYiUOg

[user-id]

Happy Psunday!

[Karl Stiel]

Who said it === Frank Booth