Bracers (and possibly gloves) are often made from the sleeve artwork in this situation, but they haven't been here. There actually isn't any art for a headpiece, bracers or gloves in this set. ![]() Fortunately the boots would be mostly hidden anyway. If they existed they'd resemble Quicksand Waders (from the black and white variant) in style, but have light grey uppers (like the top half of the robe) instead of black. Sadly I can't find any boots that use the same artwork set and colour. Gina Barreca is an English professor at the University of Connecticut, a feminist scholar who has written eight books, and a columnist for the Hartford Courant.Comment by NiawThis set uses the White variant of the "C3 Robe" artwork and forms three pieces of a four- (of five- if you consider leggings) piece set of the art. Women don’t need to bring back the whalebone in our corsets what we need is to develop enough backbone to be comfortable in our various shapes and sizes. So you’ll not be surprised that I decided to skip the equation that beauty equals bondage, even when it’s trying to pass itself off as a textile buttress. Surely at some point they, and their self-esteem, deflate and return to earth? Given that the fabric is virtually airtight, I picture ladies - smooth ladies, every one - wafting toward the ceiling at the end of a gala evening and bobbing up there like so many balloons. Researchers argue that these arcane garments will cut off the circulation of blood to several of your favourite major organs - especially those having to do with digestion - and cause reflux, heartburn and flatulence. ![]() Today’s advertising rhetoric says they will “smooth” your silhouette, which sounds rather comforting and benign, but with a little research (reading another 48,000 articles) a person can start to believe in conspiracy theories concerning the deviousness of underwear manufacturers that rival those put forth by UFO abductees. That’s why smart broads were eager to shed them. As the old joke goes, “How do(es) it know?”īut so-called “shapewear?” It turns out they’re not so intelligent. You put in a hot beverage, it keeps it hot you put in a cold beverage, it keeps it cold. I’ve always been fond of thermoses, which are the cleverest of appliances. This realization did not prevent me from wondering whether I might not be wise to purchase one. The premise behind Spanx is this: if you put Jell-O into a thermos, it won’t remember it’s Jell-O. ![]() In some cases, of course, that would be appropriate.īut what might start out as playful could become deadly and we should all remember that, especially before wearing an item of clothing that resembles a lace-edged iron maiden. Name aside, I don’t believe this product has anything to do with the act of spanking because, as far as I can tell, the hand of the person attempting such an act would ricochet off the taut trampoline-like surface of the fabric and in all probability cause the spanker to put out an eye or cause severe damage to his (or her, but you know would be his) wrist. I started looking at various other links for women’s foundation garments - there are more than 28 million entries - so I narrowed my search to the first 75,000 - and it seems as if the most popular brand at the moment is a product called Spanx. Turns out you don’t just have to flatten your stomach anymore. These new products differ from the girdles worn by women of my mother’s generation only insofar as there are now girdles for the legs, girdles for the arms and girdles for an adult’s entire body. They’re supposed to support the whole structure, from the bottom up and the inside out. That’s why they’re called foundation garments - they’re made of metal and concrete. Now times have changed and women are putting their undergarments into the flames for a different reason: They’re doing it to forge the steel infrastructure more thoroughly by placing them in the refiner’s fire. I grew up watching early women’s-rights activists burn their bras and girdles. They didn’t call them that, but that’s what they were. What I saw made me gasp, then wince, then toss my head and offer the hollow laughter of film sirens who’ve discovered their boyfriends were no-good, gun-slinging liars. Casting my integrity to the winds, I clicked on the link. It offered me a product that would, through cunning and science, give me a better figure. This is why I ask: There’s been a pop-up (rarely has the term been so grievously misused) ad appearing in the lower right-hand screen of my computer, which at first seemed only persistent it turns out, however, to have been irresistible. This article was published (3453 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.Ĭould you be talked into purchasing a foundation undergarment so restrictive, so unyielding and so draconian it makes a wetsuit look like a nightgown? ![]() Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.
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