Sentence examples for shapewear from inspiring English sources

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shapewear

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Foundation garments, designed to hold a part of the body in a particular form

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One bride I designed for took a shapewear slip, attached it to a bra with stick on tabs at the side, and had the back of the bra altered and lowered.

If you want support but can't find anything that doesn't leave a visible line, you can always find a pair of seamless shapewear tights and chop off the feet and part of the legs.

Blond and slim, she said that she'd never worn shapewear until she moved to Atlanta, from Florida, and gained fifteen pounds.

We like to think that women have come a long way in the past century, but the obsession with confining shapewear, and with outer beauty at the cost of physical comfort, implies that we have not.

Like magic, shapewear departments began to appear in stores, offering an updated version of my mother's brutal girdle — Lycra had changed everything.

Before Spanx, shapewear was associated with the aging and the piteous (remember Hugh Grant pawing at Renée Zellweger's thickly swaddled nether regions in "Bridget Jones's Diary"?).

It's so subtle and so modern, and so brilliantly implies that the person wearing it is actually already in shape, and that the shapewear is just tidying up — a little pencil edit, nothing drastic.

By the way, whoever came up with the name "shapewear" deserves a MacArthur.

For instance, I would like to forget the excellent… Let us now discuss shapewear.

Let us now discuss shapewear.

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Sales of 'fat pants' (or 'shapewear', the euphemism favoured by those in the industry) are booming in this country - according to industry insiders the sector is worth £135 million.

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