Lol for dudes out there…
What it is: RipTFusion, $58.00
What it claims to do: A T-shirt on steroids, RipTFusion claims to be a “body-sculpting undershirt designed to support your core, shave inches off your belly and enhance your posture.”
The first clue that you’re in for something different is the instructions on the box. That would be the instructions for how to put on, and take off, a T-shirt. (“How to put shirt on: Pull on all the way to your underarm, then pull over your head.”) Men have celebrated the T-shirt for generations, from the brilliance of Brando to the hipster uniforms of Threadless, and now we’re being told that we’ve been doing it wrong? You almost have to admire the chutzpah.
And what of the shirt once it’s on? The best description I could give is that it’s what I imagine wearing a girdle must have felt like, only less so. Or, as my pal Briana, the one who first turned me on to RipTFusion, so brilliantly put it, “It’s like Spanx for men who are trying to pretend they don’t have body shame.”
The shirt itself is made of two different materials that make up three different zones. The top and bottom are traditional cotton, while the middle core is an elastic, synthetic material that compresses your abdomen. It’s this core component that’s supposed to give you that physique you’re willing to pay, if not necessarily work, for.
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