To wonder how women wear dresses in the heat

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Please can someone help! How on earth are most people wafting about in dresses in the heat?

I'm a U.K. 12 and if I wear dresses in the summer with normal pants my thighs rub together so badly, it's impossible to walk more than 5 minutes!

I have chub rub pants which are great and I put up with how sweaty they make me, but they are absolutely not suitable for a holiday where I'm wearing little beach dresses etc and it's very hot.

I've tried thigh gel in the past and found it makes no difference, it rubs off right away.

Is this just me? I'm slightly overweight but not a lot and find this happens even when I'm slimmer.

I wear floaty linen-mix jumpsuits, still wafty but zero chub rub.

And they contain the floof poof.

Liquid talc helps

Same! I’m a UK 14 and my thighs are ok and I don’t get thigh rub really. My belly and boobs carry the weight and I could never go bra-less I’d be sore and slightly worried about knocking out the person next to me 😅 Also had big boobs as a size 10 though! Can’t change your basic shape as others have said.

I buy cheap Primark leggings and cut them to the perfect length - works well!

Skimmed the thread but I hate the synthetic material in shapers and anti chafing layers. I kind of get what the OP is asking because it’s a hot layer that will stop the rub.

I don’t wear enough dresses or skirts for me to invest but I’ve thought about some light cotton loose bloomers for this problem.

Like this… they seem far more sensible than a tight hot non breathable layer on a hot day.

https://www.vermontcountrystore.com/classic-cotton-knit-pettipants/product/21292?variantSizeName=size&variantSizeValue=L+%2832-34%29&cq_plac=&cq_net=g&cq_pos=&cq_med=pla_with_promotion&cq_plt=gp&utm_source=google&utm_medium=paid%20search&utm_campaign=Low_NonBrnd_Temp_7RSHP306&sourceid=7RSHP306&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_cv1hE2Gla5YgzyRGJPQiVJL0WI&gclid=Cj0KCQjwwae1BhC_ARIsAK4JfryybDHks1W4AfnoekEMnEbMPfsmn7ynKpKZDwO24Q2YGXm5EQFQGugaAllsEALw_wcB

I spray my thighs with anti-perspirant.

it sounds like she thinks ALL women have the problem which just isn't the case.

She literally asked "Is it just me?"

Anyway, even if she does think all women experience chub rub, why does that offend you? She obviously wouldn't think it was a fat thing if she thought ALL women experienced it. She would think it was a woman thing.

Seems clear from the answers anyway that some thin women get it and some bigger women don't.

Most likely shape as fuck all to do with weight 🙄
I've always had chub rub, even when I was a slim 15 year old-because I have big thighs. Doesn't stop me wearing dresses though, actually prefer them to shorts as I find the rub makes the shorts shift uncomfortably between my legs iygwim.

I want chin rubs from snag or put deodorant there

Dresses are by far the coolest thing to wear in the heat. I have the athletic thighs of a power lifter but I’ve never experienced “chub rub”. What about wearing mens boxer pants as underpants, or “boy shorts” style pants? But if you’re wearing anything other than cotton or linen, you’ll swelter whatever underwear you have

I'm very porky of leg, and I wonder if any of the recommendations would roll up from the bottom, in the way that stockings roll down from the top. Do they stay put?

Wear chub rub shorts underneath. Many do this - not just overweight people. I saw a couple women wearing them yesterday as the wind caught their dresses (saves your modesty too). In fact my teenage DD, a svelte size 10, always wears cycling type shorts under her short skirts (again for modesty rather than thigh rub).

I have to wear dresses as I find most shorts ride up and so I end up with thigh rub anyway! I live in dresses with chub rub shorts. Wouldn’t be able to live without the shorts underneath the dresses, best invention ever

Haven’t RTFT
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lady-Anti-Monkey-Butt-Powder-ounces/dp/B01DMSVY1K

This is me too. I also find shorts really uncomfortable.

I’m currently a size 8/10 but used to be a size 14 and even then I didn’t get chub rub, I just don’t seem to be built that way.

Snag tights chug rub shorts are really good - they keep you significantly cooler than not wearing shorts.

I’m size 14 and find I do get chug rub now I’m this size.

Would really recommend them.

Theyre like tights fabric so you’d think would be hot but they’re not.

Indeed!

I used to be a size 8, and I don’t store my fat at all on my thighs, but due to my body shape my thighs rub together like mad

My thighs always met even when I was young and size 8 too. But they didn’t run as such when that size.

I guess we are all built differently!

But you’re SAYING it isn’t about fat shaming yet in the same post harping on about people being sedentary etc.

And the answer is that Rubenesque ladies in previous generations wore cotton bloomers much like the one posted as a photo.

And so did the skinny ones, because, as we have now established, but you are determined not to acknowledge, this is an issue which affects plenty of women irrespective of weight.

Not always. If I lost 3 stone I would be 5 stone, if I lost one stone I think I would be at my lowest healthy weight according to BMI, I would like to lose another half but I don't need to, it's just to try shed some of the jiggly bits.

I wouldn't be surprised if I still get it even if I lose half a stone or more and I would probably still get it even if my body fat % was in the low 20s.

The things I’ve learned on MN …

Yes, it's to do with hip width. I'm almost underweight but don't have hips so my athletic thighs still touch. I don't think I was even in the queue when they handed out hip bones......

Can't remember the last time I wore a dress, let alone a skirt.

I have very muscular calves which I don't like being on show.

I really hate working in this heat. My uniform is polyester which makes me sweat more

Apologies if it's been mentioned already but Megababe Thigh Rescue is the best £12 I have ever spent! Tried liquid talc which helped for the short term but needed a lot of reapplying, whereas one swipe of this lasts me the whole day - total game changer. Smells nice too.

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