Just been to the loo in my spanx and...

[Fillybuster]

At a posh work do, in a very very tight fitting dress. After a few —many— glasses of fizzy stuff and wine, and a 3 course meal, I just popped to the Ladies and oh my god, had completely forgotten I was wearing M&S scary control underwear.
I could barely get it down! Thought I was going to have to ask a total stranger for help And the pain, as it ripped out my skin...ouch!
Simply cannot face pulling it back up. I know this isn’t AIBU but WIBU to go commando the rest of the evening?
Am I alone in an underwear disaster? I’m meant to be on the dance floor not hiding in the loo contemplating the pants of doom...

I have a pair of Spanx and they don't have a wee hole. I even got them out of the drawer just now to check and definitely no hole (did get a "WTF are you doing!?" from DH though when I climbed over him in bed because it was quicker than going around the floor )

Thank you, one and all, and once again I thank god for Mumsnet during those long, dark moments of the soul, when I think I’ve really cocked up & you lovely lot reassure me I’m not alone

After much pant-wrangling I got the damn things back up but then had to enlist dh’s help in getting them off when we got home. And not in a good way He reckons that me demanding he assist in removing my knickers then minute we got through the front door may have been a first

I think the slippery incident means that if OP removes her knickers and goes commando then sods' law says there'll be a slippery patch on the dance floor, she'll slip and fall and flash her bits.

Was it a man who designed this new way to torture women? Do men have an equivalent or is it just women who yet again are expected to wear something ridiculous to ‘look good’?

Spanx with a wee hole sounds revolting

I don't think they're supposed to sound particularly seductive. They're pants you piss through.

Try pulling them back up with a broken arm...that's interesting!

Was it a man who designed this new way to torture women? Do men have an equivalent or is it just women who yet again are expected to wear something ridiculous to ‘look good’?

I wear mine because I have C-section overhang and diastasis recti so the side profile of my abdomen goes normal-pointy-normal-overhang. I'm very self-conscious about it and the Spanx streamline things so I feel more confident. I don't wear them everyday, only when I want to wear something that might accentuate the areas of rather not have accentuated.

No male equivalent that I know if those and I do refer to them as "those stupid bastarding knickers".

After I broke lower vertebrae I wore a back support thingy for a while

Would that help anyone with c section overhang? It was just a cheap one from a pharmacy. I was mostly stuck at home so can’t recall what it looked like under clothes but I don’t think there was a visible line.

Ummm! are you sure you didn't buy crotch-less knickers? More fun in the bedroom not to wee through