Sweater dresses have come a long way since corsets. Thanks in part to celebrity fans like the Kardashians, a range of innovative options have cropped up in the past few years to help you look and feel your best. Designed to hold you in and accentuate your figure, good shapewear will support you without any discomfort. Whether you’re looking to smooth your stomach, enhance your waist or lift your bust, there’s no shortage of bodysuits, knickers, slips and tights to choose from.
To leave you comfortable throughout the Christmas party season and beyond, a few things need to be considered before choosing your cheap sweater dresses. Support ranges from light to intense, with the latter leaving you more uncomfortable by the end of the night (especially after a few drinks). You also want to make sure that the material is strong but not so thick that it leaves a visible line through your clothing.
Best cheap bodysuits
First came the white Keds. Then came the mom jeans. Sometime in the last couple of years, many of my peers and I had started dressing like women from the 1990s from the bottom down. But what to wear on top? That was the question. I am not big on crop tops, and tucking anything into pants that stop above your navel causes bunching, which makes you look like you have a FUPA. For fashion guidance, I looked to an icon of the era that birthed the look and asked, “What would Cindy Crawford do?” Easy: She’d wear a bodysuit.
I’ve now had my cheap bodysuits for three months, and I was curious about how my positive feelings would evolve during the swassy summer days. I seemed to be alone in my concerns though. “This is a great, casual bodysuit that I’m looking forward to wearing as the weather warms up,” a user named JBlondies wrote in a review of the Gap bodysuit. I didn’t understand the enthusiasm until I wore it during a recent trip to Georgia and felt nicely ventilated even on a high-80s day. Right you were, JBlondies.
Another reviewer had yet to see the light. “This is a nice style bodysuit but I found it didn’t fit quite right on me,” wrote apal3. “It was loose around the bum/legs.” I thought about writing this user a response, explaining that the looseness around the butt, the fact that it left you a little room without looking saggy, was a benefit. “Your bum will thank you in June!” I wanted to say. But I did not. The journey to the bodysuit is a personal one, and there are some lessons, apal3, you must learn yourself.
If you find full body shapewear daunting, these briefs do all the work with none of the discomfort. Our tester was sceptical at first over how effective underwear could be as shapewear – particularly when the material is so thick – but thankfully they are seamfree and so high-waisted that they gently sculpt the body into an hourglass silhouette. They’re also available in HexinFashion.