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From the Ted Talk by Becca McCharen-Tran: Fashion that celebrates all body types -- boldly and unapologetically

Unscramble the Blue Letters


As a fashion designers that do a lot of swim, we wanted to rewrite the rules around having a bikini body. So we cast a team of babe guards to enforce guidelines around icoiulsnn and acceptance at the pool. Instead of "no diving" and "no rnnnuig," how about "celebrate cellulite," "body plciniog piiboetrhd," and "intolerance not tolerated." And this was eocerfnd by babe guards Mama Cax, Denise Bidot, Geena Rocero, Ericka Hart and Emme, all activists in their own right.

I've always felt it was important to show a range of different bodies in our runway shows and campaigns. But it actually wasn't until recently that we were able to expand our size range in a major way. We first launched our cuvre clooitclen five years ago; we were so eciextd. But when it launched, it fell flat. Nobody was interested. None of our department stores stocked above a size lrgae, and if they did, it was somewhere else in the building entirely. In fact, one time our sleas team said, "You know, it's so cool you have trans models and curve models on the runway — I love what you're doing. But when the byures come in to see the collection for market, they want to be sold a daerm, they want to see something that they aspire to be." Implying that our models weren't that.

Open Cloze


As a fashion designers that do a lot of swim, we wanted to rewrite the rules around having a bikini body. So we cast a team of babe guards to enforce guidelines around _________ and acceptance at the pool. Instead of "no diving" and "no _______," how about "celebrate cellulite," "body ________ __________," and "intolerance not tolerated." And this was ________ by babe guards Mama Cax, Denise Bidot, Geena Rocero, Ericka Hart and Emme, all activists in their own right.

I've always felt it was important to show a range of different bodies in our runway shows and campaigns. But it actually wasn't until recently that we were able to expand our size range in a major way. We first launched our _____ __________ five years ago; we were so _______. But when it launched, it fell flat. Nobody was interested. None of our department stores stocked above a size _____, and if they did, it was somewhere else in the building entirely. In fact, one time our _____ team said, "You know, it's so cool you have trans models and curve models on the runway — I love what you're doing. But when the ______ come in to see the collection for market, they want to be sold a _____, they want to see something that they aspire to be." Implying that our models weren't that.

Solution


  1. prohibited
  2. curve
  3. excited
  4. collection
  5. enforced
  6. large
  7. inclusion
  8. buyers
  9. sales
  10. running
  11. dream
  12. policing

Original Text


As a fashion designers that do a lot of swim, we wanted to rewrite the rules around having a bikini body. So we cast a team of babe guards to enforce guidelines around inclusion and acceptance at the pool. Instead of "no diving" and "no running," how about "celebrate cellulite," "body policing prohibited," and "intolerance not tolerated." And this was enforced by babe guards Mama Cax, Denise Bidot, Geena Rocero, Ericka Hart and Emme, all activists in their own right.

I've always felt it was important to show a range of different bodies in our runway shows and campaigns. But it actually wasn't until recently that we were able to expand our size range in a major way. We first launched our curve collection five years ago; we were so excited. But when it launched, it fell flat. Nobody was interested. None of our department stores stocked above a size large, and if they did, it was somewhere else in the building entirely. In fact, one time our sales team said, "You know, it's so cool you have trans models and curve models on the runway — I love what you're doing. But when the buyers come in to see the collection for market, they want to be sold a dream, they want to see something that they aspire to be." Implying that our models weren't that.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. acceptance
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  6. bikini
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  10. buyers
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  19. department
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  21. dream
  22. emme
  23. enforce
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  25. ericka
  26. excited
  27. expand
  28. fact
  29. fashion
  30. fell
  31. felt
  32. flat
  33. geena
  34. guards
  35. guidelines
  36. hart
  37. implying
  38. important
  39. inclusion
  40. interested
  41. large
  42. launched
  43. lot
  44. love
  45. major
  46. mama
  47. market
  48. models
  49. policing
  50. pool
  51. prohibited
  52. range
  53. rewrite
  54. rocero
  55. rules
  56. running
  57. runway
  58. sales
  59. show
  60. shows
  61. size
  62. sold
  63. stocked
  64. stores
  65. swim
  66. team
  67. time
  68. tolerated
  69. trans
  70. wanted
  71. years