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"I don&amp;amp;#8217;t care if you&amp;amp;#8217;re the bride in a big white gown, a &amp;amp;#8217;maid trying not to look lumpy in two miles of teal satin, or just a run-of-the-mill wedding guest&amp;amp;#8212;chances are, if you&amp;amp;#8217;re a girl at a wedding, you&amp;amp;#8217;re packing shapewear underneath your dress.No, I will not test-drive the lucite heels. Sorry. The problem with shapewear, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve found, is that despite its many, many merits, it&amp;amp;#8217;s really hard to shop for. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve always bought my shapewear online&amp;amp;#8212;with my luck, if I went to a store, I&amp;amp;#8217;d run into an ex while pawing through bins of full-body control suits. But after a hundred or so clicks (I&amp;amp;#8217;m nothing, if not thorough), it all starts to look like a blurry, nude-colored mess. So I usually end up ordering whatever&amp;amp;#8217;s on my screen at the time and hoping it won&amp;amp;#8217;t give me the dreaded sausage-casing thighs. Unfortunately that method tends to result in ill-fitting shapewear and money wasted. So here&amp;amp;#8217;s my solution: Along the lines of Petra&amp;amp;#8217;s Best. Blushes. Ever. post, where she test-drove your favorite blushes, or The Big Wipe-Off, where she tried the eye-makeup removers you guys swear by, I&amp;amp;#8217;d like to take your favorite brands and styles of shapewear for a few spins around the dance floor and report back. I&amp;amp;#8217;m wondering which are best for smoothing or slimming, which work best with an ultra-fitted dress and which give your butt a nice boost? Plus, which styles you can only stand in, and which are so comfy you could wear them every day. So tell me: What brands and styles of shapewear should I try? Which do you swear by? Which do you feel your most sexy in? What are you planning to wear (or what did you wear) under your wedding dress? Which made you the hottest bridesmaid on the block? And which brands and styles are you curious about? More stuff on shapewear: * Control-Top Arm Hosiery: Would You Wear It? * A Shapewear Thong: Would You Wear It? * 10 Easy Ways to Make Your Boobs Look Amazing (No Plastic Surgery Required) More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. Photo: Spanx "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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