SubscribeVintage Dieting: Fatsuits
This photo from the 1960s shows French women sitting in "slim-down coveralls" while being served low-calorie meals.
From flickr / donnalethal
The attached text reads:
"10 May 1961, Paris, France --- Weighting Game. Paris: Shedding pounds while getting new hairdos, Parisian girls relax in slim-down coveralls underneath the hair driers at a local beauty parlor. In addition to the coveralls, customers get low-calorie meals to help with their slenderizing. Idea was originated by Parisian hairdressers Roger Pasquier".
More like this in Weird · Feb 27, 2008
slenderizing.... oh my....
Replyyeah the might sweat out a half a pound of water. whoopee
Replythey do something similar to this now- they call it a mineral wrap- squeezes all the water from you- but that isn't slenderizing, that is de-bloating, really...
ReplyNow there's a good look....
ReplyI thought that in the 60s weight loss was simply a matter of popping enough amphetamines?
ReplyThe bad old days... Thank god we know so much more then those primitives.
ReplyAs if they wouldn't sell today.
ReplyThey DO sell those today. I saw them at Walmart...they're called "sauna suits" and they're supposed to make you sweat a lot so you shed more weight faster. They're not quite the same color, but the concept's pretty similar I think.
ReplyHa! And I thought French women didn't get fat. There's even a book that says that they don't!
I feel cheated!
*cheeky grin*
ReplyI was just going to say that! :-)
Funny, for a country with no fat women, they sell a lot of cellulite cream in their pharmacies.
ReplyThese devices are indeed live and well! By strange coincidence I posted about them a day earlier - http://www.dietgirl.org/dietgirl/2008/02/one-size-fits-a.html
They were covered in dust and cobwebs at TK Maxx :)
ReplyWonders will never cease. Those suits should have stayed in the sixties.
ReplyHow do the coveralls help them lose weight?
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