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"By now we know that you dolls are devoted fans of your shapewear--you gave the slip to the slip long ago and rely on your favorite foundation garments to smooth, suck, and sleek-ify your look. But with all of those fabulous benefits came a few less-than-pleasant side effects...We&amp;#x27;ve heard it all before--you love the look your shapewear gives you, but it&amp;#x27;s too uncomfortable. Or too hard to use the loo in. Or, worst of all, too embarrassing to get busy in! (Remember this reader&amp;#x27;s hookup dilemma?). Designer Annemarie Scotto-Dinan, who creates cute cocktail frocks for the line Chloe &amp;amp; Reese, felt your pain, and she came right back at it with a brilliant new dress line called Sleek Collection that has the shapewear built right in! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! When Annemarie was traveling to showrooms and department store trunk shows showing her Chloe &amp;amp; Reese dresses, she heard the same thing from women over and over again: &amp;quot;I love that dress, but I&amp;#x27;d have to wear Spanx with it.&amp;quot; So she decided to eliminate the extra step and create Sleek Collection. &amp;quot;I thought it was really a simple idea to take shapewear and put it into a nice dress--a designer dress. Because a few people are doing it right now, but this comes down to the design. It has to be on par with the quality of the concept.&amp;quot; So she applied everything she knew about flattering, chic dresses to this line, with svelte-ifying shapewear built into the garment&amp;#x27;s innermost layer. &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s comfortable, but it really holds you in there,&amp;quot; Annemarie told me. I&amp;#x27;m all for intrepid reporting, so I asked if I could try one on and see if she was right. I had just spent the weekend indulging in BBQ ribs and ice cream and hadn&amp;#x27;t been to the gym in a few days, so I was in a prime place to see if my muffin top could, in fact, be tamed. I slipped into a cobalt blue cap sleeve dress that had a very Victoria Beckham Collection-like feel to it, and while I could feel some pressure on my midsection, it was nothing compared to the suffocating feeling of Spanx--and if I do say so myself, I looked damn good! &amp;quot;Everybody feels like they need that little extra confidence boost,&amp;quot; Annemarie said, and I totally felt like I had it. &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve heard women call shapewear their &amp;#x27;secret weapon,&amp;#x27; and it&amp;#x27;s totally true. The name of the line conveys exactly what it&amp;#x27;s about--sexy, fitted, I mean it&amp;#x27;s just sleek.&amp;quot; The collection--which runs from size 0 to 16--will hit Lord &amp;amp; Taylor stores this fall, with prices ranging from $248 to $298. And if it does well, you can expect expansion in the near future. &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;d expand into pants for sure, and probably swimwear. People are already doing it, but not with the look and feel of designer clothes,&amp;quot; she says. What do you ladies think of the Sleek Collection concept? Would you wear a dress with the shapewear built right in? What&amp;#x27;s your biggest hangup about wearing Spanx? And do you think this would solve it? Discuss! PLUS: - Does shapewear suck (yay!) or suck (boo!)? Let&amp;#x27;s discuss - Control top arm hosiery: Would you wear it? - The world&amp;#x27;s greatest dress your body tricks Glamour stylists answer your fashion questions at WhatToWear.com. Ask away! You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Photos: courtesy of Sleek Collection"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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