Susie TaaffeChief of Staff, RAMMP · Chief of Staff & Strategic Operator | AI-First | RAMMP | Building What Doesn’t Exist Yet

Enough is enough! The day I started an Anti-Shapewear Movement #skanties

13 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, Susie Taaffe recounts the moment she coined the term "scanties" and launched an anti‑shapewear movement. While watching a video by Sarah Blakely, founder of Spanx, Taaffe saw Blakely demonstrate a look achieved by layering two pairs of Spanx garments. The visual of multiple layers of body‑shrinking apparel triggered Taaffe’s frustration, leading her to question how far the industry will go in promoting the idea that bodies need to be compressed. She declares that enough is enough, urging a cultural shift away from encouraging people to shrink their bodies with excessive shapewear.

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That's how scanties evolved into an anti-shapewear movement. It evolved because it actually— I actually coined the phrase the day I saw Sarah Blakely from Spanx, and she did a video showing how she achieved this particular look. And you had to watch it as a video because no one would believe she could achieve it if she didn't show you the proof in a video. And then she proceeded to put not one pair of Spanx on, but layer it. 2 pairs of Spanx on to achieve this set look. And that's when I just threw down the towel and I was like, oh my God, when is enough going to be enough? Like, when? When is enough? When is it enough? 2 pairs of shapewear. Like, 2. Like— I was just like, we need to stop this. We need to stop telling people, like, the message out there that your bodies need to be shrunk to