This here is the Hip-T. It's marketed as a "layering accessory for your hips", and is basically a $20.00 band of fabric that you put around your hips - over your jeans and under your too-short shirt - to camouflage your muffin top and/or prevent the embarrassment of butt/thong exposure when you sit or bend over. Why not just wear a cami under your shirt like normal people? Well, say the Hip-T creators, whole shirts under other shirts cause an annoying "t-shirt tangle" that simply must be avoided.
However, whole shirts, with their arm and neck holes, are guaranteed to stay put on your frame. I have a feeling these Hip-Ts would roll down or shimmy up - especially on those of us who have those unfortunate muffin tops or tummy rolls - causing us to be smoothing or tugging at it all day long. And really, I find it hard to believe that it does anything about corralling in the muffin top anyway; it just looks too thin.
Plus, I have fears about other ways people might use this item. Tube top? Headband? Skirt? Good God, I can see the Paris Hilton wannabe now.
While I will admit the layering effect is cute, I just don't see the point of spending $20.00 on a band of fabric when I could have a whole shirt for the same price. And actually, I think most of the gals rocking the super-low jeans are kind of wanting that extra exposure, so there goes half of Hip-T's target audience.
I did enjoy checking out their Press section, though, in which the celebrities posing with the Hip-T include various D-listers such as Karina and Lacey from "Dancing with the Stars", Bobby Brown, and "celebs" we haven't seen in 20 years. Note to MyHip-T.com editors: It's ANSON Williams from "Happy Days", not Ansel. Poor Potsie gets no respect.
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