Talk:Spanx/Archives/2013

youtube link
This is not exactly encyclopedic background information, isn't it? It's commentary, and so the relevance of the commentator need not be discussed at length. --Pjacobi 22:12, 8 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I tried to make it sound less like company propaganda and added citations. I removed the puffery about the founder on the grounds that she has her own entry. I corrected market information that mistakenly applied an estimate of the size of the entire "bodyshaper" market to Spanx itself. dweinberger 02:20, 5 July 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dweinberger (talk • contribs)

Criticism
I wish someone who knows how to edit Wikipedia properly would create a "criticism" section (Spanx as a throwback to the 50's and girdles, etc.). But perhaps there are not (yet) enough acceptable sources.--24.251.17.123 (talk) 15:55, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Sara Blakely attends the Time magazine 100 influential people awards
There is a great picture of Sara Blakely here: "Tuesday’s event to celebrate Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World issue was packed with moguls, leaders and newsmakers including Jeremy Lin, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Harvey Weinstein, and Rihanna — but it was Blakely whom Abedin, wife of Anthony Weiner, most wanted to meet before she and Clinton left the Time Warner Center. An event organizer was dispatched to Blakely’s table to ask her to come over, and the Spanx sensation was soon seen in deep conversation with Clinton." — FYI, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 12:07, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

I don't know where this would fit in, but have a look at this article from Rush Limbaugh about Spanx, I don't see a controversy exactly, but I wonder if some of this information can go in criticism without stirring up something?

Link is here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/04/26/hillary_and_huma_do_the_time_100_bash_hold_meeting_with_the_inventor_of_spanx

JasonHockeyGuy (talk) 05:34, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

HockeyGuy Jason, thanks for the heads-up. What Rush Limbaugh was doing was giving the highest of praise to Sara Blakely. She shows how The American Dream works, to work hard in America and exceed all expectations of building a successful company. Here is his quote from your referenced article (I remember it well). "Now, the Blakely story is a great story. I think it is.  Very American.  She invents a product. People wanted to buy it. There were no government handouts or no slush funds. There were no subsidies.  Hillary actually could learn a lot from Sara Blakely." Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 14:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Another interesting article title: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/10/the-spanx-woman-is-worth-a-billion-my-key-takeaways/ — Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 23:29, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Huge gap in History section
In the second paragraph of the History section, the first sentence is her unsuccessfully trying to find pantyhose. Then, in the second sentence she's securing production run deals with manufacturers. There is a huge gap in what happened here? Why would she be securing production run deals when the last thing we were told is she was trying find pantyhose at stores to buy for her own use? I am assuming she came up with her own product somewhere in that gap, but that's an assumption that comes from the disrupting thought "wait, what the heck is going on?" not from a naturally implying text that allows you to continue reading without disrupting thoughts. (That is an ungraceful explanation, but I am going with it.) The history gap needs to be filled in, especially since the rest of the section is anchored on what happened during that gap. — al-Shimoni  (talk) 01:35, 20 December 2012 (UTC)