But let's start at the very beginning. My friends My Mom-Friday and Mommy Fleur and I were invited to the Wacoal workshop and found it quite amusing that we were surrounded by very young fashion bloggers (more on them at the end of this post!). I mean, seriously, with such lovely skinny bodies, what do they need shapewear for? Well, we were all (yes, even those fabulously perfect girls) in for a surprise!
Since 99.9% of my blog readers are girls, I’ll share with you what
I learned because I’m so helpful that way. Trust me, after this post, you’ll
want to ditch all your bras and panties and get proper ones!
Yes, they defy gravity. It’s not just muscle tone that makes your
boobs and butt perky, it’s also your super elastic skin. But if you aren’t
careful (you get fat, you abuse your body with a bad lifestyle, you’re lazy,
you’re exposed to the sun, etc), you’ll start to see some sagging in your 30s,
like so:
When I hit my 30s, I still had the body of a young girl. Mostly
because I rarely ever went to the beach (no sun exposure!) and I remained slim.
But then I got pregnant and I breastfed. The resulting rapid expansion of my
chest, tummy, hips, butt and thighs was a shock to the system. I’ve never quite
gone back to my pre-preggy body. My boobs have definitely started to go south,
my tummy bulge is there to stay, and my thighs are thicker. I am glad to report
that my butt has remained perky!
At the Wacoal workshop, we learned that exercise and a healthy
lifestyle will delay aging but it won’t stop it. So no matter how healthy you
are, your boobs and butt will sag. Like this:
What’s a girl to do? Turn to great underwear! And that’s when
Wacoal showed us the importance of not just cup size but also how different
body shapes need different structured underwear.
