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Has anyone actually managed to piss through their Spanx then?

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Monkeybird · 23/04/2008 21:59

Without a wetting incident, either of gusset, bestockinged legs or, er, fingers (since presumably one has to utilise them to deal with said gusset)?

Because I got my (spanking new) Spanx today and am mystified.

It all seems a bit unsavoury. Though granted, preferable to taking them off. And on again. If they hadn't have been the right size, I shudder to think what might have happened (I did try them on in the hallway and various delivery men were due this morning).

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jingleyjen · 23/04/2008 22:29

depends where groping is required Zippi

hellymelly · 23/04/2008 22:29

They are a bugger to get on and off-I haven't worn mine for ages but they were good for giving a smoother shape under a clingyish dress about 6m after dd1.I had a wedding to go to and felt too podgy to just do the control top tights thing.I had the high waisted ones with little legs-high waisted is better for post-natal as they don't give you that roll at the top.I think I held the "gusset doors" open with two hands to wee!It was fine,no urine spillage.Preferable to wrestling them off anyway.The other makes that have poppers are even more annoying as they pop undone or worse partially undone leaving you astride a string like section of gusset . not pleasant.

wilbur · 23/04/2008 22:29

I have the ones that go from under bra to just above knee - they are v impressive and there is no flub over the top that I got with regular control pants (where the flub goes, I know not). Have not attempted using wee hole, I just thrash about in the loo cubicle until I get them off. If I am drunk, the thrashing progresses to whirling and cannoning off the walls, but it is still worth it to be flub-free and not smelling of urine.

DumbledoresGirl · 23/04/2008 22:30

Bozza - clever aren't I?

jingleyjen · 23/04/2008 22:30

pmsl@wilbur

islingtonponce · 23/04/2008 22:31

indeed wilbur, who could ask for more from life?

wilbur · 23/04/2008 22:37

There have been a couple of occasions when getting them off at the end of a big night has reduced me to pathetic weeping, though.

zippitippitoes · 23/04/2008 22:38

of course i dont get asked to swank spanx type parties as every fule on mn kno

pph hasnt yet invited me tho she is on the brink

pofaced · 23/04/2008 22:46

OK- let me get this right: there's NO over flow above the waistband or below the thigh with Spanx? Any other control-type knicks I've worn jut redistribute flab so i get fat back instead of wobbly tummy... I'm a size 12-14 bottom but 16-18 on top and really need to push the flab down!

bozza · 23/04/2008 22:49

I guess so DG. Have you not been around much recently?

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 23/04/2008 22:54

zippi - are you more of a Vollers corset girl?

I don't think I'd want to own something called 'Spanx'. Even without the curious weeing arrangement.

Cappuccino · 23/04/2008 22:55

do they make you throw up?

I remember when I was 18 my mother loaning me a girdle [ew] for the evening

I went out for a meal and then threw it all up when I got home as there was no room for it

jingleyjen · 23/04/2008 22:56

Po faced, the top of mine is the same height as my brastrap so no over flow there, and the texture on the thigh is just a little thicker than tights.

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Monkeybird · 23/04/2008 22:57

pofaced, thing is, they're kind of head to toe stylee... well bra strap to knee

where the flab goes? As I said before, all kind of squashed back in between your separated stomach muscles and in on itself and all kinds of horrid armed robber faces appear in your stretchmarks.

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zippitippitoes · 23/04/2008 22:57

they are lovely sadly tits not up for being corsetted

jingleyjen · 23/04/2008 22:57

If they did Capp I would be alot thinner than I am

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Monkeybird · 23/04/2008 22:58

No Cappucino, that will have been the vodka

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zippitippitoes · 23/04/2008 22:58

i bet yoiu look an d feel a complete shambles after you take these spanx off

jingleyjen · 23/04/2008 22:58

yup

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Monkeybird · 23/04/2008 22:59

Oh yes zippi, a positive avalanche of stretchmarks.

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suwoo · 23/04/2008 22:59

I tried the pissing whilst wearing spanx this weekend. I was sober and the piss still splashed everywhere. I had to hold the openings and then use my hands as protection either side to stop it going down my legs, is that TMI yet? I have WAY more info than that but fear my vodka fuzz may be lulling me into a false sense of what is acceptable to share

RubyRioja · 23/04/2008 23:00

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Monkeybird · 23/04/2008 23:00

Nope suwoo. No shame here. Share, do.

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zippitippitoes · 23/04/2008 23:01

i dont seem to have those

i think i would faint tho

i am still recovering from ahving a joint shower on sat am stasrted feeling really faint was too embarrassed to say and hoped it would pass realised i was going to go got out of the shower and onto the landing and couldnt find my bedroom or work out where i was and saw lots of stars managed somehow to end up on my bed

so extra tight pants would probably not be good

pofaced · 23/04/2008 23:01

I'm off to buy a pair (but will my tits look even bigger?)

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