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Get Your Girdle, Myrtle!

Get Your Girdle, Myrtle!

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E. Jean Carroll
Oct 24, 2023
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Shrewd and Sylph-like Reader!

Do you remember garter belts, my darling? Girdles? Cross-Your-Heart bras? What’s the history of your lingerie?

What pushed you out in your twenties? Held you up in your thirties? Pulled you in, in your forties?

Now, of course, we can be ANY shape we desire—thanks to Spanx, Skimms, Uniglo Heattech tights (What????? You haven’t discovered the Uniglo Heattech miracles?? All I can say is they’re totally worth the two-and-half hour, full-body workout trying to get them on!) What shapers are you wearing now?

Bonus Question:

Have you ever found a comfortable bra?

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The Ask E. Jean Reader has more ooomph than a push-up brassiere and more snap than a garter belt. If you’d like to join me and the Mighty Conflab, help solve the problems of our correspondents, and give the world a tiny tiny tiny bit of a lift, slip into this!

Got a question? (We’re getting some good ones lately!) Write to ejeancarroll at gmail dot com. If you’d like to remain anonymous, just let me know a…

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