Do you feel like a chain store? Practically floored.

[venta]

Funniest thing on the news today: M&S anti-cellulite knicker claims 'misleading'

...contains the wonderful paragraph:

"The £29.50 Anti-Cellulite Firm Control Waist and Thigh Clincher pants contain vitamin E, aloe vera and caffeine."

Caffeinated pants?

I appreciate that cellulite blights some people's lives but really... who thought caffeinated pants would help?

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[lnr]

They sell those pants from size 10 to size 22. And while I can vaguely understand wanting to wear such a garment in order to look better in one particular dress for one particular event (although I wouldn't do so myself) I simply can't fathom the mindset that thinks a bit of crinkly skin on an otherwise slim body is so horrible it's worth squeezing yourself into such a constricting garment 8-10 hours a day, 6 days a week for a whole month. It's heartbreaking, never mind the caffeine nonsense.

[metame.livejournal.com]

People do crazy thing for teh body-image fashionz, don't they. have been for a while...
See corsets, bodices, girdles etc for when it's worth squeezing yourself into such a constricting garment 8-10 hours a day, 6 days a week for ever.

[lnr]

You may have noticed that those sort of garments have been very much out of fashion for a long time. I don't think it's a good step if they're coming back in!

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

so horrible it's worth squeezing yourself into such a constricting garment 8-10 hours a day, 6 days a week for a whole month.

Hear hear. Also when *I* wear garments that are constricting (e.g. flight socks on a plane), they leave nasty big red indentations, and leaves a big visible line with bulges either side and I really can't work out how that is supposed to be *more* attractive than cellulite.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I have observed strange bulgy effects which I believe are the result of compression underwear (or "shapewear" as M&S has it). It is a risk.

I think the trick is to buy the more expensive varieties, where the garmet extends considerably past the area you wish to compress, with lessening tightness as it goes. So if you want squeezy pants to shape just your bum, they should go well down your thighs, and not be squeezy right up to the edges.

If you look at M&S' range online, lots of pants don't do this, but the effect is not obvious since in the pictures they're modelled by people who patently have little requirement for compression.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Hope is finally in sight for all those people with huge unsightly size 10 bums!

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think that's a very damaging comment.

In particular, it just damaged my keyboard when I in advertently spat soup at it due to laughing :(

[lnr]

:)

[venta.livejournal.com]

I can vaguely understand wanting to wear such a garment in order to look better in one particular dress for one particular event

Yes. I have done this exactly once. It went something like this:

Need evening dress for wedding -> do not own evening dress -> buy evening dress -> put on weight -> discover two days before wedding that dress does not do up any more -> invest in compression hosiery.

My normal response to such an event would be to wear something different, but since the whole reason for shopping was that I didn't own anything else appropriate, I was a bit stuck for ideas :)

What I bought was basically a pair of tights whose top went up to under-bust level. They weren't actually uncomfortable at all, and had the desired effect. They were, however, only effective when on and didn't claim any lasting properties. And they weren't so much as tea-flavoured, never mind caffeinated.