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

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I've just been reading the highlights out loud to my colleagues :)

I thought the title was fairly hilarious too, especially as in the Most Read Stories box it just says 'M&S knicker claims 'misleading''.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Also, what happens when you wash them? Doesn't all the caffeine etc get washed out? Are these actually incredibly expensive single-wear disposable pants?

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Does that mean people's bottoms will never sleep again? If so, what does that even mean?

[rosenkavalier.livejournal.com]

And I notice from the article that cellulite is apparently caused by that favourite of the health/diet/cosmetics industry - unspecified, mysterious 'toxins'...

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I feel I must defend M&S here. Nowhere on the product page does it say that any of the measures are effective.

For example, when they say "caffeine to slim and tone" they're describing the reason why it was included, not making a claim that it will actually accomplish this goal.

(I are srs blogger. This is srs comment.)

[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.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Do they come in a decaf version? They really need to be thinking of all their clincher-worthy customers, not just caffeine-tolerant ones.

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

I think the caffeine is included solely to stimulate the pants, rather than the wearer. One wouldn't want to get up in the morning & pull on one's pants, expecting cinchage, but find that they hadn't woken up yet and one's arse was still a ginormous Size 10.

M&S pants

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

I read the Which? report days ago and thought "Knickers to the whole thing."

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Hello! I have just connected you with yourself, as it were. I'm Clare, you connected me with myself at Whitby.

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I love both you and this thread.

Am wondering if a tea-flavoured varient might be a good idea in case of emergencies. They could have 10,000 perforations in the gusset Just In Case.