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jmbottles07
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Shapewear and bathroom worries?
I just started thinking about what to wear under my dress being that my first fitting is in about a month and a half. Initially I had planned on spanx that went mid thigh and had a shaping effect on my lower stomach, but then I thought of trying to go to the bathroom with those on.
Does anybody have any input or suggestions on something that could help with lower stomach/chafing but won't be ridiculously hard to manage when I have to go to the bathroom?
Thanks 
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Re: Shapewear and bathroom worries?
If you're talking about the kind that come way up, they normally have an opening in the crotch to pee through.
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This is going to sound crazy, sit on the toilet backwards and face the wall. This way you don't have to deal with the back of your dress with all the extra fabric of the train. You only have to worry about holding up the front of the dress. I know, it sounds crazy, but it works.
Also if shapewear has no opening or one so small that you might get it messy and smelly YUK , It is very easy for a seamstress to cut a large opening just above your pub is and down through your crotch. Like something from an obscene underwear catalog. A short flap is sewn down from the abdomen, and a second is sewn to the back long enough to reach the front piece and overlap it by at least one inch, best two. Either sturdy gripper snaps or large flat hook and eyes (like on pants waistbands above zipper) are sewn on both pieces.
Now you have a body suit that opens up to three inches wide and up to five inches front to back.
If you have never worn a snap crotch body suit, note that the front piece would be very short, the back piece very long. If equal length it is almost impossible to fasten fasteners with your hands inside down around your a****le. You want to be able to reach down and pull the long back strap up between your legs to several inches below your naval, then fasten. You can easily reach and see what you are doing mid abdomen.
Maybe difficult to visualize.
Google BODY SUIT.
Lots of costumed dancers and actors or actresses have two flap pieces added to the bottom of blouses so the pieces snap together just about front crotch , and keep the blouse or shirt tails smoothly tucked in during movement. They even sell kits, though a good seamstress cane make one in less time than it takes to go to a store. And cheap kits have front and back pieces the same length, which only works if you want to lay back like a baby with your legs up and spread so someone else can do it
I wore a huge tulle dress. And I peed twice (didnt wear any shape wear, just a thong) BUt I was that cliche bride that made my BMs help me pee. Sorrynotsorry.