1990s flashback - the bodysuit!

[sighbynight]

I know this will probably be greeted with revulsion and contemptuous pity, but can you still get these anywhere? I need something along these lines to fit under a slim fitting skirt. I'm obviously no good at tucking myself in because I usually look like a bag of spuds.

Its a blouse or shirt style I'm after, by the way, not a body con lace number. Those definitely still exist but .

[IHaveBrilloHair]

No, just no, the VPL will be hideous and having to fasten up the babygros things will be terrible.

[Trills]

Blouse or shirt style?

I don't remember that EVER existing, only tight stretchy types.

[MsBojangles]

I saw one!

It was recently online, Zara maybe?

[Pointlessfan]

I can't help but I stupidly wore one to go horse riding once. What an uncomfortable experience that was!

[ManicPixieDream]

Think I may have seen some in H &M. I chuckled and moved on.

[TheImminentGin]

Saw hideously expensive ones in local posh department store by the hosiery company......eh.......it'll come to me.

[sighbynight]

They DID exist for sure. I had one. Cream silk - it was lovely!

I don't think it was Zara - all the bodysuits there are for babies. But thank you!

[FrugalFashionista]

Donna Karan always does them they are her signature, and I think Wolford too. I have always loved them, would not go anywhere near lacy ones though.

[sighbynight]

Wolford perhaps?

[TheImminentGin]

Wolford! www.wolfordshop.com/bodysuits/cp61080/cl1/vt01/

[sighbynight]

Its to go under a full length silk skirt for a ball. I don't want to wear a "ballgown" because I'm too old for the princessy shit - but I want smooth lines. I'll see what I can see at Donna Karan and Wolford...

[sighbynight]

Good Lord, those Wolford models are intimidating.

[Elliptic5]

I used to love mine but I would never pay those prices .

[sassytheFIRST]

Makes me have a flashback to the night I came out of student union bogs having done my poppers up outside my jeans. Mortifying.

[sighbynight]

Donna Karan ones are even more expensive...

[SummersSomewhere]

Next www.next.co.uk/g1z26s1#755717g6z not a shirt style though.

[Mogz]

I had a nice black blouse one from asos last year, like you OP didn't want go down the ball gown route but needed something that would give the right look.

[sighbynight]

I've found this site. American, but they ship to the UK.

//www.tuxebodywear.com

I may well do this.

[MsBojangles]

www.houseoffraser.co.uk/Hallhuber+Bodysuit+blouse+Clarissa/216709347,default,pd.html?cm_mmc=ShopStyle--Women--Tops--Bodysuit+blouse+Clarissa&$ja=tsid%3a45090|kw%3aShopStyle+UK|cgn%3a79682&awinDCS=3100_1434057182_2951130922bf9eda69c204a480cd424b||0||0||0||1504326654&awc=3100_1434057182_2951130922bf9eda69c204a480cd424b&cm_mmc=AWIN--Deeplink--NULL-_-NULL&istCompanyId=17910aed-1bae-4362-9580-b523eb87a91e&istItemId=imrqpqmx&istBid=t

[LookingForDave]

The wasted hours trying drunkenly to do up those poppers when you have foolishly drunkenly unpopped rather than hoiking to the side.

Alternitively the times you houk to the side but drunkenly fall over and pee on the gusset.

Urgh.

[TheImminentGin]

They never worked for me. My body is long so all a body suit did was give me a poppered wedgie. Not comfortable.

[sighbynight]

Well, I reckon I drink much less now than I did in the 1990s . Gusset coordination doesn't worry me.

[burnishedsilver]

I dread to think how you would unfasten a body suit in a toilet cubicle wearing a full length ball skirt.

[NotInGuatemalaNowDrRopata]

A drunk girl asked for help doing hers up at a wedding (in the loos, obviously). Equally drunk, I complied, completely unaware she wasn't wearing any knickers until someone kindly told me the next day.

[IHaveBrilloHair]

Cheezus crikey mcfucker, £300 for an adult babygro that you will struggle to do up in the loos so you'll take it off and shove it in the tampax bin.