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Where Have All the Girdles Gone?

Daphne Merkin hunts for anti-gym fix

By Victoria Floethe, Newser User

Posted Dec 6, 2008 6:03 PM CST

(Newser) – In these belt-tightening times, Daphne Merkin wonders why she can't find a decent girdle. Spanx abound and corsets have been re-conceived as fetish objects or ironic fashion statements, but the real body armor has become taboo, she writes in the New York Times T ... Read full story »

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