The Shapewear Dichotomy: Striking a Balance Between Sales and Self-Love

Melissa Sirois
2 min readMay 23, 2021

Shapewear is particularly popular today, as cultural and societal influences (ah-em, Kim Kardashian) drive desires for the average woman to have more of a well-defined, “hourglass” figure. When shapewear was first introduced in the form of girdles and corsets, it was marketed to women in a way that made them feel like they were not beautiful or “physically worthy”…

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Melissa Sirois

Marketing and journalism grad working in corporate communications. Funny person. Connector of dots. I write about life as I see it.