Magic knickers - do they really work,???

[MrsBoo]

and which brands are the best - please my tummy is getting beyond a joke

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Ha ha - I have tried them once, and all I seemed to get was a VPL!! that was almost worse than the tummy!

I wanted to start this thread! I wore some tummy control ones from M&S and they were horrible, the most unconfortable thing ever! But I thought maybe good quality ones would work? Also I was wondering if anyone new whether they help pulling your tummy muscles together? Where I come from everyone wears them post birth and swear by them.

The M&S ones work

I have some and they make my stomach look flat and crease free

Did you get them in your normal size oliveoil? I thought they were either to unconfortable or too small.... Also, they weren't high enough so they were cutting my tummy in half iyswim. I just remembered that I wore a pair of tights with tummy control and they were fab, not only holding my tummy in but also smoothing the thighs.

I am a size 12 and fairly slim BUT I have a wobbly stomach (pesky brats) and I got some to wear with a slinky dress for a wedding (hide celulite too, bonus).

Mine to up to my waist and about mid thigh or so

Similar to Oliveoil in figure.. i brought a pair from next.. they were rubbish !!. just squished the bits out.. i ended up with very strange lumpy mid thighs.. i prefer control top tights (they do them in sheer as well m&s do good ones) seems to hold in the wobbles without dissapating the flab elsewhere

you need spanx. the long line ones. they are the business.

mine are like these in a hideous fleshy beige colour BUT THEY WORK

thats the right idea... but the spanx one are longer at top... stop just under bra line... and are made of v lightweight, breathable fabric.... dont made you feel like a sausage encased in sweaty plastic . can you tell i cant reccommend them highly enough??

tried the m&s ones, didnt get on with them. Its a con, all that wobbly flesh has to go somewhere, they just move it, so not magic atall!

that's exactly why you need the longline ones..... it has nowhere to be displced to!

my next ones were longline (ended just by my top rib) but whenever i so much as breathed it rolled down slightly meaning squashed bump of flesh and obvious VPL equivilent ... before you say it was too big it was a size 12 i'm a 10/12 and so tight i could only mildly exhale .. perhaps i shouldn;t be so cheap and invest in the hallowed spanx !

exactly! they are not cheap, but they WORK and you will get good value from them. the next / m and s ones are not cheap either, just cheaper.... and they dont work. they are crap value..... (must leave now before get too evangelical over a pair of pants....)