The Infamous Stofie

Lerato wrote us an interesting and funny article on the body contouring garments we ladies use to hide our lumps and bumps! Enjoy:

Heeee, ladies…let’s be frank about matters. Whatever your size is, you and I both know the secret to all those lovely contained numbers we wear.

Call it what you want, somnganga, composer, corset, vemba, stof-pipe…whatever it be called in your lingo, fact is, the bigger you are, the more likely you are wearing it as you read this.
It’s the most uncomfortable thing to wear a dress/skirt and feel like your thighs are burning off rubbing on each other! Yerrr, it feels like a rash waiting to happen, and thus most ladies have the under garment…the stofie.

I’m recalling one episode of our popular soapie Generations where u-Queen couldn’t undress next to Lungile coz of the stofie. It happens to most of us. I will not expose the names of my girls who do these, but I know of a lot..One friend mentioned that she “conveniently needs the bathroom” before she sleeps over at the fiancé’s place…
Let’s just accept, and teach our partners that these undergarments are a way of life. Composure is essential , and looking good is a must…and we all know that the extra roll on your stomach disappears faster with a corset, and “Triumph” help than with gym.

Please don’t get me wrong ladies, it is good to go to gym, but we all know that we are not all going to look small even after gym…So, for the most of us, we rely on the famous stofie, or corset to hold what needs to be held. FACT! But in all the truth we are saying, we must still remember that under garments belong under clothes, please don’t be that chick whose stofie is peeping out. It’s not appetising, and makes you look sub-standard, and we are not going for that mos???