- This is the shortest skirt I own.
Oh, hello!
Okay.
Hello, I'm Chloe, and welcome to Bizarre Beauty,
the show where I try weird Internet products,
so you don't have to. (shimmery bells ring)
(guitar music)
(cat meows)
So, have you ever been wearing a cute dress
and walking down the street, and suddenly a random gust
of wind blows it up, and you're exposed to everyone?
Well, it's happened to me quite a lot of times
in this exact dress,
(ding) so today, we are trying out
a product that says it will stop any blowing up of dresses,
so these
are called DressWeights. (shimmery bells ring)
"How do they work?" you ask.
I will tell you.
These are weighted little
tabs
that you stick on the inside of the bottom of your dress,
and they weight down you dress, so that if you get a gust,
it stays put, which I think is a great idea.
This is such a nifty little gadget,
so I really, really, really hope these work.
So, any kind of flouncy dress obviously tends
to blow up, like, not even with a big gust of wind,
but just any wind whatsoever, so these I feel like are gonna
be kind of a godsend.
Okay, so they come in packs of four.
They're re, whoop!
They're resusable.
Oh, and they use 3M sticky stuff, which is high quality.
Oh wow, they're pretty heavy.
I mean, not heavy enough that they're gonna weigh you down,
but they're fairly hefty, so they probably would help.
Let's look at the instructions
'cause I'm not entirely sure what to do.
The one thing I am wondering is
if it's gonna make the dress sit different
because if you think about flowing skirts,
they are supposed to look floaty,
and if you hang weights off them, it might drag it down
and make it not as cute.
Each weight is nought point five ounces,
which is about the same as two and half quarters
or 13 jellybeans, that's cute.
I guess you can choose how many you wear,
so you just kinda like decide if it's a really windy day
or a semi-windy day.
I guess I'll do all of them, and then we'll just
put it to the test.
We're gonna test them out by going outside.
(weights fall on floor)
Good. (beep)
We'll go test them out by going outside.
It is a little windy today, so I'm hoping that is enough
for it to have a fair test,
but then, just to really, really put it to a test,
I keep saying the word test.
(beep)
But then to really put it through its paces.
(ding)
I'm gonna stand in front of a giant fan.
(fan blows)
So, before we put these on, I'm gonna go outside,
and we're gonna see how the weather is with this dress
without the weights on.
Follow me.
(air whooshes) (quirky music)
It's a little windy.
Oh, there you go.
(quirky music)
See this?
Look at this.
I'm gonna do a twirl
because that's, like, a big test.
(quirky music)
All right, (claps hands)
back to the studio.
Okay, so now I'm gonna stick the little DressWeights on.
I'll do two in the front, two in the back,
or like, maybe not, maybe just around, four around?
That should be evenly spread out, I assume.
They have I metal, I think.
(taps weights together)
I wonder if they show through
'cause this is quite a see-through dress.
They seem to be putting it around there in the picture.
I wonder if they're just gonna fall
off as I walk. (chuckles)
They're definitely reusable.
They come off really easily,
but I'm worried they're not sticky enough.
Once they're on you, you do feel them.
(makes weird noises with tongue)
It is weird that they just now, like,
it flops (laughs) down.
It's just like, bleh. (chuckles)
So, it is sitting a little differently.
I mean, if it's gonna stop me flashing,
I'm happy to have this little difference,
but let's take it outside.
Okay, initial thoughts, you can't really feel the weight,
which is good.
It's not making the dress hang differently
when you stand up, so that's really nice.
It's still raising up a little bit,
but it's not as bad as it was, I don't think,
so let's have a little walk.
(quirky music)
(air whooshes)
(quirky music)
(hums)
Yeah, this feels all right!
I don't feel as self-conscious as I did the first time.
(air whooshes) See this?
Look at this.
(air whooshes) Yeah, it's definitely
holding it down,
but not in like a dragging-it-down way,
and you can put more on too if you wanted, I guess.
You don't have to just have four,
but it's just in packs of four.
Okay, I'm gonna do a twirl.
(quirky music)
(air whooshes) (liquid drops)
Wow, they work!
And they're only 15 bucks with a pack,
like, that's not bad.
Let's go in front of a fan!
(air whooshes) So, we're back in the studio
for one final test.
I'm joined by Jada, who will simulate a strong gust
of wind coming from below.
(intense music)
Yup,
okay.
Oh, look at that! (fan blows)
If this was without the DressWeights,
my skirt would be up here.
Fly, my pretties, fly!
(fan blows) It's great!
It seriously works!
Oh hello!
(buzzer sounds) Okay.
Simulated too much, cut it!
(air whooshes) Well obviously if you get
a Marilyn Monroe situation happening
with an air vent coming from below,
maybe it wouldn't work 100%, but other than that,
they really work, and yeah, it's still sticky.
I mean, it probably wouldn't last forever obviously,
but like, definitely for a while.
What do you think of these things?
Have you tried them out?
Do have problems with gusts of wind?
I feel like most people do.
So, join me next time where I try something else weird,
but until then, good bye!
(upbeat music)