Many of us have spent hours upon hours worrying about finding the right shapewear to wear under an outfit. Maybe you struggled with a low-back dress that showed every bodysuit you tried on. Or perhaps you could never find shorts that would work with a dress that had a slit, leaving you forced to roll yours up on one side (only to realize that will cut off all your circulation because it’s only bearable for all of two minutes).
If only you could nip and tuck your shapewear into exactly what you needed…Well, Knix is here to do just that, with a new shapewear collection that’s fully customizable to give you the coverage you want depending on your outfit needs.
After years of altering store-bought shapewear and cutting bodysuits to remove straps, Knix founder and president Joanna Griffiths had a lightbulb moment: What if your underpinnings were made to be altered? This idea gave birth to Knix’s line of PerfectCut shapewear, a line that can easily be chopped and trimmed with a pair of scissors (fabric scissors, ideally) to suit your needs.
Using patented technology of built-in cut lines, each shapewear piece can be cut along velvety strips to personalize the fit, length, or depth of cut based on your exact needs. Because everything is bonded together, the cuts don’t disturb the garment’s integrity (or the level of shaping), and it won’t fray or roll up either. And at the end of the day, it empowers you, the wearer, to be in charge of how you want to look and feel — exactly what shapewear is supposed to do.
The brand’s PerfectCut line is offered in four silhouettes (a scoop neck thong bodysuit, a scoop neck brief bodysuit, an open-bust shaper bodysuit, and high-waisted mid-thigh shaping shorts) in sizes XXXXL+ to XS, with prices starting at $55. If it sounds too good to be true, take a look at the line yourself, and you’ll see how the magic happens.
