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Is Spanx Sexy? How About ‘Bombshell’ Bras?
Why do women wear Spanx? And pushup bras?
Is the impact of these private deceptions on a woman’s psyche any different than hideously photoshopped Ralph Lauren ads? Is the lie worse because she’s the instigator and collaborator? Is wearing body-altering clothes a lie? If so, haven’t women refined the truth of their physicality for centuries?
Do we have two victims in the body alteration game? The woman and the person seduced by her? Ah … is this topic about sex?
In a PR world that says there’s no such thing as bad press, the Spanx ladies must be orgasmic with all the media attention from yesterday’s WSJ post Shapewear Has Women Bent Out of Shape.
A woman entrepreneur needs all the free publicity she can get? Holiday parties are around the corner, and Spanx is promoted as a better friend to woman than her bijon frisse or golden retriever.
The hillarious WSJ post on shapewear had company. A NYTimes piece on escalating shoe sales as a positive experience not governed by “thin is in” and the week’s earlier intro of Victoria’s Secrets new “wondrous bra”, pumping up a woman’s chest two cup sizes, prompted my sexy reflection: Your Inner Bombshell Is YOU: The Girl In The Mirror.
Googling this morning, I see that even Gawker is on the Spanx case. The topic sounds trivial, except that we’re talking female psychology here, a holistic woman, who is already ambivalent about her sexuality, if she’s American. Anne
