spanx pants

[pollypeachum]

just fabulous but can anyone really pee through the hole in the crotch...??? (for those who don't know what they are and in case this question sounds a bit dubious, they are bum and tum shapers in the vein of trinny and sussanah's magic knickers!)

Do they make your plumper bits bulge out over top and on tops of legs? Oh yes and can you breath?

Oh, I heard All Saints talking about these on Jonathan Ross last week -they swear by them apparently. I imagined them to be like cycling shorts that held everything in but didn't realise they had a hole to pee through -ugh!

fgs, do any of them look like they need them though?

Yes, they are like Michelin men underneath but the Spanx make them all svelte and lovely!

i wore a pair for the first time yesterday, wanted to look damn smart for posh awards lunch with husband and having had twins 10 months ago needed all the help i could get. wore them under a slinkyish wrap type dress and they did the business on my bum and tum. no bulge at top of leg. they are supposed to go right up to just under your bra but but they slipped down a bit. wasn't conscious of too much bulge though and much less than had i gone au naturel. yes i could breathe.
a nice lady in john lewis bra dept advised me on the right size to buy. the crotch thing did make me blink but vanity got the better of me. rolled them down when i went to the loo, couldn't face the alternative... have decided to regard the hole as healthy ventilation!

what dress size would you say you are? just to get this in perspective

14
oh the shame of it

oh thats alright, average size, means they might work for me

Since when was size 14 shameful?!

Unless you're 3ft tall, of course, in which case, sympathy

am not too bothered about the size 14, despite the fact that in my mind i'm 6' and size 10 meaning that i get fright each time i catch sight of myself in a shop window....
have recently been enormously cheered by a friend who has lost about a stone and now weighs 8 and a half stone - she still has that flabby bit round her stomach that you get from pregnancy. and she has a personal trainer so its not that she's not toned.
now that i know there's nothing to be done about flabbyness i'm not even going to try!!!

These are brill but I also didn't notice that they had a hole in the crotch!

I get nice comments about how much weight I have lost when I wear these and I'm a size 18! The best thing I find is that they stay put and don't roll down IYKWIM

Rights that's it - grocery budget goes on spanx this week - we will have to do without organic veg for once...