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2. I like Spanx (or, off-brand shapers) under certain garments or types of fabrics. They aren't supposed to change your body shape or make you a smaller size - if they do, you're buying them too small and no wonder you can't eat or get them off to go to the bathroom. What they do do is create a smooth line under clingy fabrics, covering any cellulite or bulges and making a dress hang correctly. The longer ones have the added bonus of preventing one's thighs from rubbing together.
3. I take my Spanx off to pee, pee-hole or no. I actually wondered why they had that opening there, but I figured it was for ease in getting them on or off. The thought that people try to pee through it is disgusting. If you buy them in your size, ladies, you can pull them off and on just fine.
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Lucy Ricardo also. They just seemed so neat, crisp and together.
And they did not have Crunch, Equinox, spin class, botox, Spanx, hair weaves or 100 billion dollar cosmetics industries.
They seemed to focus on their kids, families, homes and community.
Hokey, you say? Give me the hokey platter and pass it around please!!!
11/05/09
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They also had make-up artists who slathered their faces with thick-greasy pancake makeup and powder. Oh, and they wore false eyelashes, thick layers of eye shadow, and thick cakey lipstick (not nearly as nice as the sheer stuff we have now).
Imagine how sweaty and fishy everything got under all those layers of rubber and padding. Imagine kissing their faces and having your lips sink into the half inch of goo covering them.
Neat and crisp, indeed. #women
11/05/09
Do you even know what mid-century undergarments looked like? Let me give you a hint: lots of painful ribbing and lacing. Somewhat akin to the fetish photography you might see in Dita Von Teese's portfolio.
Oh yeah, and lots more cigarette smoking in 1950s sitcom America too. And pills. Since your "all you can think of" seems to exist only within the confines of pop culture, you might want to read/watch Valley of the Dolls . That could teach you volumes about how women stayed so "neat and trim" as well.
God, why hasn't this troll been muzzled already? Nothing to be heard except blithering, drooling nonsense. S/he's been a existing as a half-dead mouth-breathing zombie for months. #women
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Why do I feel like many guys who hate on Spanx would also be the type to tell their girlfriends/wives/dates that she should do whatever makes her feel good?
Many women make such an effort to be physically attractive to men that it can be exhausting. And yet some men will wear their socks with sandals, old t-shirts, boxers with holes in them, wrinkled clothes, etc etc etc and think "eff off" if anyone criticized him for it.
(And I know this doesn't characterize all men, and I would also never criticize someone's fashion choices unless they tried to knock on mine.)
Even the most fit, healthy and confident woman might get an image boost from getting dressed up with Spanx underneath, so I say: good for her. BUY THOSE AWESOME ZEBRA-PRINT SPANX. #women
11/05/09
Men are obsessed with women (straight men that is), and will always comment on the "too much makeup", fake hair, etc.
It's just the way it is. I think the larger issue is how much time we all spend (and not to mention the money) curating our looks. I always go with a freshly pressed shirt, well fitting pants and a nice pair of shoes, etc. Plus a healthy skin regimen, and good grooming.
Works like a charm!! Anyway, I always wonder if the heavily botoxed and plastic surgeried folk realize how weird they look? Or do they think they are so beautiful, hence all the stares? I guess these people are starved for attention, so any attention is welcome. How you doin' Jocelyn W.???
11/07/09