SPANX Power Mid-Thigh Review: The Short, Not the Brief, Thirty-One Dollars

SPANX Power Mid-Thigh Review: The Short, Not the Brief, Thirty-One Dollars

Amazon filed the brand as Generic. The garment is SPANX Power: nude, a waist that climbs the rib, a mid-thigh hem, a smooth face. Thirty-one dollars. Eighty-one hundred reviews. A 3.8. We already did the Power brief (no inseam) and SHAPERMINT shorts (same job, twenty-five dollars, seventy-nine thousand reviews). This is the SPANX short. The bra in the still is not in the box.

If you wanted a brief, Power brief. If you wanted thighs to stop printing under a dress and you already trust the name, stay. Size the hip. SPANX runs a hair small. Between, up.

SPANX Power Series nude high-waisted mid-thigh shapewear shorts, front three-quarter on a body

The inseam is the product. The brief already exists.

High means under the bust on a short torso and a tank you did not order on a long one. Mid-thigh is the argument against a mini and against chafe. Too short and you bought a boyshort that rides. Too long and it peeks. The Size Guide is a panty chart that runs firm. Their own stills sell 360-degree sculpting in a lightweight knit. Believe a knit. It is not a zippered faja.

Nude is a beige. Match it or the short is a headline under white. Black, if the listing has it, is the commute. The Power brief stops at the leg. This one keeps going. That is the only reason to pay thirty-one instead of buying the brief you already read.

SPANX Power mid-thigh shorts rear view showing the high waist and mid-thigh hem on a nude knit

Rear still. The bra is yours. The short is the SKU. Overlay copy is a slogan; the hem is the job.

Why 3.8, vs SHAPERMINT, skip

Eight thousand reviews is a photo that matches more often than Amazon no-names, plus people who wanted a faja and bought a knit. The 3.8 is also heat, a beige that was a beige, and a size that was a 4 feeling like a 2. SHAPERMINT is cheaper and louder. SPANX is the name you can find next year in the same beige. Wash cold, hang, no fabric softener.

Who it's for

A dress, a mid-thigh, a waist you will size. Not the Power brief, not a $31 miracle, not a Colombian zip. Size the hip, hang the knit, and do not buy it as a faja.

Pros

  • The SPANX short — distinct from the Power brief we already reviewed
  • High waist plus mid-thigh in one named knit
  • A step up from a $12 slip short
  • Nude that disappears under the right opaque
  • The brand you can still buy next year

Cons

  • Not a faja — compression is a knit
  • Beige nude is a beige
  • Runs a hair small — between, up
  • Heat is a funeral
  • The 3.8 includes people who believed a slogan
  • The bra in the still is not included
★★★★★★★★★★
3.6 / 5

A $31 SPANX Power mid-thigh. Size the hip, hang the knit, and do not buy it as the Power brief or as a faja.