Maidenform Cool Comfort Slimmer Review: Mid-Thigh, a Beige, Seventeen Dollars
We already did a Bali ultra-firm thigh slimmer (a name, a smoother) and a SPANX Power mid-thigh (thirty-one dollars). We just wrote the Maidenform boyshort (short inseam). This SKU is the longer drugstore one: nude, a waist at the natural waist, a hem at mid-thigh, a knit they sell as Cool Comfort. Seventeen dollars. Thirty-eight hundred reviews. A 4.2. It is not Bali. It is not Power. It is not the boyshort. It is the slimmer you put under a dress that actually needs a thigh.
If you wanted a short inseam, the boyshort. If you wanted the name that lasts, SPANX. If you wanted seventeen dollars and a mid-thigh, stay. Size the hip. Cool Comfort is a slogan. Heat still exists.
Mid-thigh is the product. Cool is marketing.
The front still is a smooth beige tube: no lace speech, no Power slogan, a waist that sits lower than the boyshort’s tank. That is a feature if you hated an underbust roll. It is a bug if you wanted the waist hidden under a bra. The three-quarter still is the same job at an angle. Believe a knit. It is not a Rago lace slimmer. The Size Guide is a panty chart that runs firm. Between, up.
Nude is a beige. Match it or the slimmer is a headline under white. Compared with Bali you save money and you lose ultra-firm. Compared with Power you save fifteen dollars and you buy Maidenform. Compared with the boyshort you buy an inseam. Pick the inseam on purpose.
Same beige. Mid-thigh, not a boyshort. Cool Comfort is a tag.
Why 4.2, vs Bali, skip
Thirty-eight hundred reviews is a smaller room than the boyshort’s twelve thousand, and kinder than Power’s 3.8. People who wanted a faja still bounce. People who wanted a thigh under a dress more often stay. Wash cold, hang, no fabric softener. A mid-thigh that is too short on you is a boyshort you already could have bought.
Who it's for
A dress, a mid-thigh, seventeen dollars. Not Bali ultra-firm, not SPANX Power, not the Maidenform boyshort. Size the hip, match the beige, hang the knit.
Pros
- A real Maidenform mid-thigh — distinct from the boyshort
- Seventeen dollars next to Bali and SPANX
- A waist that sits lower than the tank-waist brief
- Thirty-eight hundred reviews is enough of a room
- A drugstore name you can replace
Cons
- Not Bali ultra-firm
- Not SPANX Power
- Cool Comfort will not air-condition a knit
- Beige nude is a beige
- Inseam length is torso-and-thigh picky
A $17 Maidenform Cool Comfort slimmer. Size the hip, pick mid-thigh on purpose, and do not buy it as Bali, SPANX, or the boyshort.
