At the moment, Spanx are in the news like never before. Spanx, for the men out there who aren’t aware (or the ladies who are yet to be enlightened) are a body shaping, butt lifting, cellulite masking, curve creating piece of underwear genius and I live in them. I wear then under dresses 4 days a week and I have every variation going. Remember the big knickers from Bridget Jones? These are about twice the size and trim thighs and hips too.
Gwyneth Paltrow admitted wearing them post baby birth when she was under paparazzi scrutiny about her weight. Kelly Osbourne, the newly slimmed Kelly Osbourne, is rumoured to be wearing them to trim her already fantastically slim frame.
The point? Ladies, if you don’t wear these, get some. Even if you are trim of figure, it does things other underwear can’t. It makes your silhouette absolutely flawless. For me, the muffin tops are my big problem. Spanx smoothes out the contour from my waist to my thighs and makes it one beautiful curvy line. When I want to wear a dress that is of more flimsy fabric it makes sure there would never be a dimple of cellulite on sight – it basically means that you look absolutely as good as you can effortlessly. You will NEVER have an underwear line.
I don’t want to hear that they are unsexy. I don’t care if you do what all my friends do and take them off in the bathroom and stuff them in your handbag before heading home so that your boyfriend doesn’t see them. That is fine. Spanx is making the world a place where curves are rightly celebrated and you will never doubt your ability to carry off a certain look.
I have tried about 10 different brands of ‘control pants’ and I can report that Spanx are the best. They are made of a fabric which is the same as tights and stocking fabric, layered over layer. They are also the most sympathetic fit for your waistline...They do the most variations of cut too – if your waist fat spills over the top of regular Spanx of you are an Apple shaped women who need help with ribs and tummy as well as hips they do a pair that go right up to the bottom of your bra, they also do long length spanx for wearing under dresses where your entire silhouette could be on show. They have thought up every eventuality of dress and do nude, black and brown variations. You can machine wash them, I have Spanx that are over 3 years old in my wardrobe so they are more expensive but they last. They are stocked in all good department stores (John Lewis and Selfridges in the UK, Nordstrom and Macy’s in the US).
The key – the fit. They have to be tight. Spanx should be an ordeal to put on. They should be so tight that when you have had a manicure you can’t go to the loo for about 4 hours after as the rigour of pulling up spanx will ruin your varnish. Their sizing is really simple, just know your measurements and if you are near the top of a sizing bracket, get the smaller size.
Marks and Spencer and John Lewis all do good variations of Spanx. Control underwear is all the rage for a reason – it works!! Just make sure it fits and go out and ROCK that bootie!!
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