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?

Comments

[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.