Men's Shapewear Is Here, But Will Men Actually Wear It? We Asked Them.

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Brittany Wong is a senior reporter covering lifestyle topics at HuffPost. She is a graduate of UCLA and a native Angeleno. She can be reached at brittany.wong@huffpost.com

Today, brands like Under Armour, Skims, Leo by Leonisa and Fabletics offer bodysuits, vests and padded tank tops for men looking to smooth out lumps and bumps.

“We are selling them as quickly as Spanx can make them,” Nickelson Wooster, then the men’s fashion director at Neiman Marcus, told the Times. It’s going to be a hard sell to get most men to consider shapewear, said Jennifer Lund Mahoney, a Chicago-based “I never had any apprehensions about wearing it because it just seemed like a good solution to a problem I had,” he said.thinks the demand for shapewear ― or at least curiosity about it ― is growing even outside of gym-goers, at least based on his comments and direct messages.

“There is no hiding them after you get up and have to adjust them,” he said. “My fit advice would be to choose a size smaller than your normal shirt size. I’ve tested a few brands and that seems to be the main takeaway. If you always wear a XXL, get an XL compression shirt.” (Be careful with sizing, though: Too-snug shapewearfit into a tuxedo or a suit for formal events. He likes Skims best.

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