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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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.