1. Wonderful news: you can now enter a talent show such as Australian Idol, secure in the knowledge that a rude judge won’t have a go at your ‘tuckshop lady’ arms (are you listening Dicko?). Introducing: Arm Spanx.
That’s right, your arms can now join the Spanx party and rock out with your belly, your thighs and your hips. UK department store Marks & Spencer have come up with the “Flatter Me Armwear” range so that everyone can wave goodbye to their cover-up cardigans. Without anything, you know, wobbling. Sigh.
This from the Daily Mail:
Available as a body or a crop top – and following on from the Flatter Me bra and knicker – Flatter Me Armwear is a long- or three-quarter-sleeved solution to strappy party dresses.
Worn beneath the outfit but over the bra, the light-control fabric promises to gently sculpt arms and ‘give a smooth and firm silhouette while the intricate lace adds a touch of glamour’.
3. It’s time to get your perve on and take a look inside Johnny Depp’s house. The place is worth a casual $17.5 million and we can imagine that Scarlett O’Hara from Gone With The Wind would have been very much at home here… Edward Scissorhands not so much……

Johnny Depp's house
Thanks Hurricane Vanessa for that gallery.
Frankly, we’re more interested in looking at Sarah Jessica Parker’s kitchen which you can do (along with other celebrity homes) if you …….click here.
5. Would you wear it? Anne Hathaway turned up at the world premiere of Les Miserables wearing a Givenchy gown that PEOPLE magazine called “debatable”. We’re calling for volunteers to lead the teams for the Affirmative and the Negative. What do you think?

Anti-pervert hairy leggings. Uh-huh.







Comments
19 Comments so far
Arm spanx? Let’s find yet another way for people who are overweight to avoid addressing the issue……
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It was actually Kyle Sandilands who used the term tuck shop lady arms on Idol, not Dicko.
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Actually as someone who has lost a lot of weight the ‘arm spanx’ are a better alternative that plastic surgery for a self confidence boost
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Arm Spanx? So the ‘problem areas’ that have to modified before we dare step out in public can now be our thighs, our bottoms, our tummies, our boobs and our arms? Crazy world!
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I think arms are genetic! As in, their shape and tone and whether or not you carry fat there. Sometimes there is nothing you can do about it.
Even when I was fit and a skinny 52kilos (I’m 172cm) I still had jelly upper arms. My best friend, even when she has put on a bit of weight still has fabulous lean upper arms and can still wear sleeveless dresses. Her mum is in her 70′s and still has great upper arms too.
Just do your best and a good fake tan always helps too
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I had spanx for arms before they were fashionable ,called compression bandages for lymphoedema.Some people need something to worry about!
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i actually tried a pair of those arm spanx things on in m&s (I’m in Ireland at the mo)…. they didn’t do much, and the material was a reeeally scratchy, cheap ass nasty lace material… which was far more aggravating than the fact that they exist at all!
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I need a Spanx one-sie.
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brilliant idea! But I have enough trouble getting out of the sucky in slip that I have, can’t imagine how I would look peeling off a onsie!
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Spanx for arms hey? I wore spanx for my tummy once when I wore a very figure hugging dress to an awards dinner. So bloody uncomfortable and then I found whenever I tried to eat or drink they squeezed the food back up my throat and nearly made me vomit. Horrible. Never again. I prefer to eat and drink and be merry. I can’t imagine I’d appreciate having my arms smooshed into anything either although genetics seem to dictate that I have permanently muscular arms anyway.
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Armspanx sound ridiculous and uncomfortable. Just start working those arms! Tricep dips and push ups tone your arms really quickly and surely that is easier than buying and wriggling into uncomfortable underwear.
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I’ve tried everything to get rid of my arm fat. I work out regularly, can lift more than most guys at my gym, I’m otherwise lean and my arms are quite ‘ripped’ looking, but nothing shifts or ‘tones’ that big wibbly wobbly fat deposit on the back of them. Last year I was extremely ill, lost 25kg and was practically skeletal, but my upper arm area remained exactly the same. Lipo and removal of the excess skin is the only thing that would actually get rid of it, and I have no interest in that. But I would like to be able to wear a pretty dress without feeling self-conscious, and these sleeves would help with that.
Some people just have areas where the weight just won’t shift. For a lot of women it’s their lower belly or saddlebags. My personal trainer is insanely fit, eats like a saint and is a body builder (so has achieved an extremely low body fat percentage many times for comps) but she can’t shift her lower belly fat, even though she has the most amazingly defined abs right above that area.
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Thanks Kate. I guess that’s the point where you say “this is how it is” and either wear those clothes anyway or choose to keep that part of you covered. I tried ‘tummy control’ undies once and I’d rather look a bit podgy than be in such discomfort.
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Yay to Anne’s dress, love it but then she can do no wrong in my eyes.
As to the armspanx – where can I get some?
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Ditto- I love Anne. She could wear a potato sack and I’d still think she was beautiful.
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Spanx for arms.
This is taken from the caption under the model with a toned body that cannot even show what the product even does.
“M&S’s new Flatter Me Armwear uses ‘light control’ lace to ‘smooth, shape and sculpt’ disobedient arm wobble”
Disobdedient arm wobble? Are you kidding me?
Personally, i find it super unhelpful that such derisive language is used to undermine women’s confidence in their bodies to sell them stuff they don’t need.
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Yes! I’ve been hoping someone would come up with some kind of Spanx for arms forever!
You can sigh all you want, but as someone who carries all her extra weight in her upper body ‘tuckshop arms’ are a nightmare to work around. I’m not comfortable going sleeveless (just as someone who carries all their weight in their middle isn’t looking to rock a crop top) but to wear a nice dress with sleeves I either have to go up a size or two, effectively hiding my otherwise quite nice shape, or resign myself to the fact that it will look like my arms are about to rip my outfit to shreds Hulk style. Otherwise I just have to wear a cardigan, which is fine when I want to be casual but not so great when I want a more glamorous nighttime look.
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I think you’ll find that House of Fraser, via Mary Portas had these arm cover-ups years ago.
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I have a few of those, and I’m not sure if they were advertised as such but they certainly don’t act as any kind of Spanx like material. They’re basically just add on sleeves. I just did a little on research on the M&S ones and reading early reviews it seems they actually do shave a centimeter or two off.
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