How girdles for guys can take off the lockdown pounds
Shapewear may be more commonly worn by women, but shoehorning myself into a flab-restricting girdle made me feel like Superman
4 May 2021 • 6:00am
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Men in Spanx? No thanx. That has always been my reaction to flab-restricting girdles, body-sculpting T-shirts and high-waisted shapewear pants that redistribute your love handles’ fatty bits to other, less obtrusive areas.
But now, after two lockdowns of overdoing it on the Pinot Grigio and the Deliveroo dinners and being a mainly horizontal, gym-phobic type looking for a quick fix, maybe it was time for a rethink. With WFH coming to an end and office and social lives starting up again, I wanted to dress up and abandon my baggy H&M sweatpants in favour of a nicely tailored Brunello Cucinelli suit. No time for cardio or a crash paleo diet: I
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Edward Abel Smith, formerly Ned RocknRoll, has legally changed his name a third time, now to incorporate his wife Kate Winslet’s surname.
I say hurrah for him! It’s cause for celebration, a step towards equality. But I bet he gets some flak for it. Even though he’s married to a Hollywood A-lister, his revolutionary gesture might still cause a stir.
I know, from personal experience, that breaking with tradition does raise eyebrows. On our third wedding anniversary 14 years ago, my husband Jim presented me with a deed poll document.
A combination of romance and logic led him to make this powerful move he had taken my surname.