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VICTORIA'S GOT ME IN A TIGHT SPOT

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Vincent
Published date22 January 2022
Nor am I talking about your Lycra gym leggings

When was the last time you poured yourself into something slinky, something that could be classified as 'body-conscious'? Something that, to use one of my mum's old sayings, 'fits where it touches'. I am guessing it has been a while.

This issue came up for me on a recent night out. My husband and I were going for dinner somewhere swanky and I decided it was time for a Zara number I bought months ago out of lockdown boredom, to get its moment in the spotlight.

The dress - a black midi with spaghetti straps, a boned bodice and pencil skirt - definitely fell into the 'sexy frock' category. And within minutes of putting it on, I wanted to take it off.

Not because it looked bad, quite the opposite. It fitted perfectly. But I just didn't feel comfortable.

Experience told me that the figure-hugging design would demand constant attention throughout the evening and, after almost two years in sweatpants, I didn't have the capacity to indulge it.

The dress went back in the wardrobe and out came a Nineties-style bias-cut slip.

And now, just as I am considering eBaying the Zara frock, I discover I may need to reconsider because, body-con dresses are back. Or they will be if Victoria Beckham has her way. Speaking ahead of the launch of her VB Body capsule collection for SS22, the former Spice Girl hinted at a return to the tight dresses of her early fashion career. Or "sucky sucky" dresses as she refers to them.

In an interview with The Telegraph, the artist formerly known as Posh, said spending time in Florida - where husband David part owns football team Inter Miami - had inspired the return to form-fitting.

Beckham hugging October "I actually want to wear tight dresses again, I haven't dressed like that for a long, long time" she explained. "It really was about bringing sexy back. I was sick of comfort dressing. I want to celebrate being a woman, I don't want to hide under baggy clothes, I don't want to talk about being in lockdown and wanting to...

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