I shouldn’t be passing judgement here, having never worn a body shaper. I remember author, Susan Orleans, describing them as “stuffing a sleeping bag into a sack.” That image alone is enough to turn me off cramming myself into anything.
One of my greatest disappointments was watching The Misfits, a 1961 American neo-western starring Marilyn Monroe. There’s a shot of her running from the water in a bikini, her tummy flopping around like, I mean, it was really flopping.
Now fast forward to Sara Blakely, the inventor of Spanx. In an interview, Sara said the idea came to her when she cut the feet off a pair of control pantyhose. “I looked fabulous,” she said.