Girdle Hurdle
…It’s been years since we’ve seen Magic Mirror.
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Sounds like an old punchline to an even older joke, to paraphrase: “Look skinny, look younger, breathe: choose two.”
I’ve tried one of those body shapers. They are teh MOST uncomfortable thing on the face of the planet and at the end of the day you look no thinner than before you just can’t breath. Perhaps you should try this great bra I buy that supports and slims. Here’s the Link.
*chuckle* at Dale’s old joke.
Cemalidor: Aren’t all mirrors heartless?
Actually, the body-shapers of today are not the kinds of torture devices they were in our mom’s day. Nowadays, we know they don’t make you skinnier…they just make your clothes fit better.
Overweight people always look more rumpled in their clothes than in-shape people. This is because a soft body moves and shifts more than a firm one, creating more folds and creases in the fabric where it was not intended to crease. Just tightening up that flesh a bit with thin nylon/spandex helps a lot and keeps fabric from bunching.
(Solutions for Women and Men. They won’t make you skinnier, but you can wear a dress or suit much better.)
Glad to see the male contingent doesn’t mind a curvy girl. <3
PattiT: LOL! I wasn’t expecting to give one. *grin*
Speaking of which:
@Erin: that bra looks great. That looks like it would really do the job of blocking those creases/rolls under the bra from grabbing your shirt. (I hate it when that happens.) I’m definitely going to order one and see if I like it.
LOL, great visual. I’m gonna be squeezed toothpaste tube myself, got my wedding coming up and gotta find a way to cinch it all in.
Bearman: ROFLMAO! That was a hilarious scene!
Warlock: We do. By telling the men folk to get turning or else!
Hey, Dawn! and HOORAY! You’ll be a BEAUTIFUL bride and nothing will be out of place. I just know it. (And HUSBAND will know it too. *hugs*) How close are you to the big day?
This reminds of what Dolly Parton’s father told her after she had a “wardrobe malfunction”: “It’s like trying to put 40 pounds of mud into a 20 pound sack.” ROTFL! Being slightly zoftig myself, I can relate to this issue. I don’t have a problem with clothes fitting, thankfully, and I’m working on losing weight.
Attending our local RenFair last October, I wore my bodice dress as a surprise for my boyfriend. The last time I wore it, I had sore ribs afterwards. This time, I laced it as tight as possible, and I could still breath easily. When I informed my boyfriend of this, he said, “That’s not right!” LOL!
For all us curvy women out there, listen to Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls” for a real esteem boost. Real women have curves! Woo Hoo!
It’s not a matter of “real women have curves” or anything like that. I think the real problem lies with society trying to enforce an idealistic beauty upon all women in this world. Sadly that “ideallistic beauty” can sometimes be unhealthy because a woman can be too thin. The reason bigger women tend to be insecure is because every magazine on the shelf of our markets promotes being under 110lbs. And while this isn’t true for all thin women, those girls that do manage to be that ideal beauty tend to be stuck up. Not all, just all the ones I’VE ever met. I guess not eating made them unhappy or something. Not only that, curvier women tend to be more laid back and happier with things in life other than their weight. But trying so hard and forcing yourself into a smaller size jeans should be for health reasons and your own happiness. Not anyone else’s. Sorry for such a log post. ^_^
@JoanH: I’m working on losing weight too. Darn weight keeps finding me tho! Loved the story of the surprised boyfriend and the bodice dress.
Erin: Lots of people in the world think less of me for being overweight and don’t mind letting me know. It does get hard to ignore some days. But let me say something about one of THEIR vices and boy, I’m just a busybody! Oh well. On my good days, I don’t care what other people think because I know I’m doing something about it. On my bad days, it hurts and I just go hide and give up. Being overweight has lots of mental baggage, just like any other life-problem folks can have.
I need to lose weight too. I don’t stress out about it too much, to be honest, but I would like to get some of my wardrobe back! My whole family is the same shape so I think I’m stuck with it. 
I wear those body shapers all the time. They work… for awhile. Until they tear/run/fall apart/ride and scrunch up horribly. And the other awful thing is if they go half-way down my leg.. they make a goofy lump where they end. XD
@JoanH: My wife had the same problem when she went to RenFair. Her bestest best friend helped her get into her gypsy costume, and as she was tightening the bodice on her, my wife kept telling her “Tighter, I can still *breathe*”.
BTW, my wife was the most beautiful BBW gypsy at the fair.
we aint fat, we’re fluffy! Hubz says he likes wide curves, easier to manage…come to think of it, he may have been talking about the mountain roads…LOL
*sighs* Well, Sam – you got that right. I just *wish* I could look like my avatars (you should see me on Gaia Online {http://www.gaiaonline.com/ }–but once I move, I’ll work on that as there’s a gym in the community “area”. Now if only my endocrinologist will *not* put me on a diet after this next test (which includes the one for diabetes – ugh), ’cause I know that diets don’t work with me. Been there, done that, shredded the T-shirt! But in stores… they either try to get me out the door quickly or just plain ignore me. *sighs*
@Ketira Oh I can’t look like my avatar ‘for real’ – I would look dead if I had long black hair. [Er yeah, not that I bothered to color in my avatar. But it's black in theory.]
Maybe….. but as for those “body shapers” – I will *never* have one near my middle. Learned how to sing/breathe like an Opera singer back in college, and I won’t interfere with *that*!