is there much of a difference between girdles and Spanx?
Yes. Girdles are heavily structured, and well-made ones have all sorts of different powernet and compression fabrics. Spanx are ... dumb.
Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?
Glory ,'Potential'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Atropa - Aug 19, 2011 6:45:47 pm PDT #21234 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
P.M. Marc - Aug 19, 2011 6:46:04 pm PDT #21235 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
There is nothing on God's green earth that could make my boobs look like Christina Hendricks'. I do not have a late-50s-early-60s body.
Trade you!
Signed, would like to look good in a flapper gown, but hasn't the figure for it.
P.M. Marc - Aug 19, 2011 6:46:56 pm PDT #21236 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Spanx have their place, actually. I would do Spanx under a loosely structured dress where I just need some smoothing, where a girdle I reserve for vintage wear.
lisah - Aug 19, 2011 6:48:35 pm PDT #21237 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Those are basically my numbers and I wear a bunch of BR stuff including my Best Jeans Ever.
lisah - Aug 19, 2011 6:50:37 pm PDT #21238 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Spanx tights are great.
I have Christina Hendricks boobs but not her height and she does not have my belly.
Zenkitty - Aug 19, 2011 7:00:34 pm PDT #21239 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I have Christina Hendricks boobs but not her height and she does not have my belly.
This is me; although she might be my height, nothing changes the problem of the belly.
What do you do when you aren't able to let go of something that is probably really nothing and you should have forgotten about it already? Some little thing that hurt probably more than it should have and you feel like a big whiny loser for still being bothered about it?
javachik - Aug 19, 2011 7:07:26 pm PDT #21240 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Zen, good question. I'm in the same place with that one.
Anne W. - Aug 19, 2011 7:14:21 pm PDT #21241 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Zen, I can sympathize all too well.
Connie Neil - Aug 19, 2011 7:19:35 pm PDT #21242 of 30001
brillig
We're going through the various boxes and binders of Magic cards. Hubby is getting more and more angry and despondent as the scale of the pilfering gets bigger. He keeps thinking about the money that's been lost, and I'm thinking of it as a "Well, it's something that could have happened, it's nothing that should have been counted on." Worst is realizing that people he's trusted have betrayed him.
Not a fun night.
Vortex - Aug 19, 2011 8:18:26 pm PDT #21243 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I think one could probably cut down on both the sugar and the butter. If one wanted to.
that's like saying one could cut down on the breathing. If one wanted to.
Zen, I think that you need to own your hurt. You are saying that it wasn't a big deal, and maybe it wasn't, but it's bothering you, and you need to acknowledge it and think through it. At least, that's what helps me.