Login

Vintage Dieting: Fatsuits

This photo from the 1960s shows French women sitting in "slim-down coveralls" while being served low-calorie meals.

vintagefrench.jpg
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
Print
Email Bookmark and Share

13 Comments

Kata

slenderizing.... oh my....

Reply
Missy

yeah the might sweat out a half a pound of water. whoopee

Reply
staci

they 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...

Reply
soozeequeue

Now there's a good look....

Reply
Never teh Bride

I thought that in the 60s weight loss was simply a matter of popping enough amphetamines?

Reply
Fitness_Fanatic

The bad old days... Thank god we know so much more then those primitives.

Reply
Heather

As if they wouldn't sell today.

Reply
Spectra

They 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.

Reply
Natalie

Ha! 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*

Reply
E.

I was just going to say that! :-)

Funny, for a country with no fat women, they sell a lot of cellulite cream in their pharmacies.

Reply
dietgirl

These 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 :)

Reply
Jim

Wonders will never cease. Those suits should have stayed in the sixties.

Reply
Supplements Canada

How do the coveralls help them lose weight?

Reply

Add Your Comment

Required
Required (never displayed)
Comments may be held for moderation.

©2003-2009 Diet-Blog - All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Disclaimer