Myrtle Put On Your Girdle, We're Going Out To Have A Beer

It's called Spanx.

More popular (and needed) than ever...rebranded as “shapewear.”

Who doesn't get turned on by beer bellies and muffintops?

Control-top pantyhose provided a more comfortable means of reshaping until the creation of Spanx.

Or, you can let it all hang out in yoga pants. Ah, the rolls.

Do women wear panty hose these days?

[quote] Did women not need them anymore?

*looks around*

No, that can’t be it.

Las Vegas Elvis wore a girdle.

Did Kate and Allie wear girdles? Did they ever talk about such things?

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Do I look like I'm employed?

I don't wear a girdle, but my loins are often girded.

Women haven't worn pantyhose since the 90's. Even Princess Kate finally gave them up. People are so casual anymore. They don't even dress appropriately for the theater. I saw a traveling Broadway show awhile back and was appalled to see leggings, jeans, and hoodies.

Spanx is very popular. Women will always wear shape wear under form fitting clothing.

I need something that zips up the back, no bones, since the quarantine.

The fitness craze that began in the late 70s early 80s also removed the need for a girdle. Look at the women on Mad Men. The director wanted them un-exercised. Without good muscle tone, especially as women got older, they needed something to keep the dresses from looking misshapen. Things like tennis or golf were allowed, but not that many women played them.

They banned whaling so they can't make girdles anymore

My mom asked me to finish closing her girdle when I was a kid. I thought it was horrendous. It was one of those old hook and eye set ups, with about 20 of them. She could do the lower ones herself, but not the ones in the middle of her back. I asked her what it was, but she never told me.

I swear, when I see an old show with a woman struggling to get into or out of a girdle, my blood runs cold was a second.

There’s a short and sweet Ogden Nash poem called “The Husband” that goes:

He tells her when she’s got on too much lipstick,

And he helps her with her girdle when her hips stick.

the president wears a girdle

clothing styles changed and they weren't needed as much anymore. in the clothing of that time, you needed them to smooth out things under clothing that was primarily woven of natural fabrics. even thinner women.

we now wear synthetic knitwear, nearly all over.

lifestyles also changed, and women were supposed to become "more active" after leaving the home and being liberated. we were also supposed to be less ashamed of the things that jiggled under our clothing. granted, not so many things jiggled as they do now because people generally were thinner, for a host of reasons (smoking being just one).

they are still sold, but it's more for the fetish demographic, or those who are doing retro either as an occasional or an everyday style choice.

That’s “The Perfect Husband”....

Lots of women today look like slobs and don't care. Of they are fat, the could at least avoid showing muffin top and plumber crack.

Girdles are uncomfortable.

I was never told about them but found shaping panties by myself. I was very thin but never exercise but I looked amazing in my shaping panties. My friends mocked me but I looked great. Yes, shapers make women look better, but most women think they don't need them or don't know they should wear them. We all look like messes now.

They never went out of style for me!

Would you really have to put on a girdle to got out and have a beer?

Now ladies ride the subway in their blue jeans, talk about trash.

You don't HAVE to wear a girdle to go for beer, but it is more fun to take a pee when the girdle flaps up like a Roman shade...

In the olden days people didn't leave the house dressed as slobs. Lucy had an entire episode devoted to this.