regarding keeping tube tops up...
 

uhm - so since I'm fairly new here, I'm really hoping this isn't an idiotic question and you all won't hate me for it, and also that this is even the right forum for this question (Mods, move this thing if it's wrong sorry sorry...) but this is the only forum I'm a member of that has a large enough female population that I'd get enough decent answers this question that I'd have options on one to consider...heh:

What simple modifications could help keep up a tube top up that doesn't really like to by itself? It's already the smallest size possible shirt, so no, it's not a problem with the size, but the top elastic band seems to have some trouble staying in place i.e. it slips a lot so I'm constantly pulling it up to avoid public embarrassment. Anyone have any suggestions on how to remedy this (the slipping, that is)?

...sorry the question's so dumb, but it's kinda bothering me that I can't wear this shirt heh *blush*

Get a boob job.


Uhm, I wouldn't really know. Sorry.

I think it's trying to tell you "tits or gtfo"

Staples.

Well, er, I'm not a womans, so I can't really speak for them, but the majority of girls I've ever seen wear a tube top, no matter how large- or small-chested, have to keep pulling them up repeatedly when they wear 'em. I do know of one easy, and cheap, modification though.

Costume tape. Also sometimes referred to as Hollywood Tape, it's a "special kind of adhesive" that you stick to your clothes, and then to your skin, and voila, magically it stays. An ex of mine had to do that with her prom dress because she was afraid she would fall out of it, and it worked.

Oh, so that is why they are alway pulling up their shirts. I wondered what that was all about. Tape probably is the best way to go then. There has to be something out there that would solve the problem of having to pull your shirt up every ten minutes. I guess I can see how that would be annoying if you were moving around a lot.

You should wear something else. Or use a glue stick.

Or, say, a water-based adhesive like the sock glue used to hold up those crazy japanese schoolgirl socks.

Just stick with it the way it is. Seeing a woman constantly pulling on her tube top has a certain charm. You know, the whore variety.

Double-sided tape is the normal answer.

The answer for those of you who don't have the figure to wear boob tubes is, don't wear boob tubes. They make you look 9 years old unless you have tits like Pamela Anderson. They look shit & make you look like a slut anyway. Buy better clothes.

This is exactly my story, and my solution to the prom. Ex GF's prom dress any everything.

Whore charm is still charm.

Maybe you could add elastic to the top?

Add straps and then...

oh wait. Nevermind.

Swear I thought I read 'cock glue' the first time I quickly read that. Read again and was sadly mistaken. :(

Sew on straps? Elastic straps.....

Well, I don't know why you'd want to wear a tube top in the winter. If you insist though, just buy one that you can tie. If you tie it tight enough it won't budge and it'll make your breasts look more perky.

You mean, a corset?

To sum it up the only options are really some sort of tape, or glue. Girls I know use plain gluestick or even scotch tape, preferably double-sided.

I think Blah was referring to this.

Gee, I'm sorry I don't wear women's clothing and don't know everything about them! >8U

Apparently it got the job done!

yeah, apparently, tube tops are being dropped from the fashion world cause they're too bug, now if you want to be hip, you just wear a thin, pencil wide piece of clothing

I know I just woke up, so I'm half-confused (and dizzy) while typing this, but you gotta use costume tape, double-sided tape, some kind of tape and things magically stay on unless a wardrobe malfunction occurs.



Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either. It's almost Thanksgiving, topic maker apparently lives in the US...wouldn't you be cold? It's cold outside where I'm at, even with a jacket.

It could just be that the elastic has gone. Or you could try body tape maybe?

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8083/ff1bco9.jpg

But do you really want to be wearing a tube top in winter? It's getting cold out.

Hehe...you both must've missed the words "simple modifications" in the initial post...
I live in the state furthest south in the USA that you can get so it's pretty much year-round summer (though there are the occasional colds as in recently) and I hate it. However, the question was more of a "for future reference" thing. Though maybe bare shoulders and cold would be something of a nice feeling...for the three seconds before I contract hypothermia...

On the other hand, tube tops with the proper layering can make for some pretty decent outfits. And no one said this was going to be worn entirely outdoors, either. ^_~ Plenty of winter evening gowns are still strapless, and they're mostly for the indoor activities anyway, right?
Ever think that tube top + skirt == dress? hehehe Funny that you say this, though, really, because I have only 1 tube top and only bought it-meh-about two months ago for dirt cheap (Two months ago, the temperature here was still hitting the nineties...) after years of decrying the particular clothing after realizing that the particular cut on the top was pretty specific to tube tops only, at least in the town that I live in (college town therefore 90% of all clothing is purely trendbased therefore unappealing to me). And the thing is only plain black, so theoretically, the straps idea is very manageable and I can think of some pretty stylish (in my mind) ways that the idea can be applied.

I didn't get the tube top because it's a tube top but more because I liked the way top cut shaped my upper half. I don't think I'd ever wear it (as indeed I never have yet) without layering...
I think the elastic was just never quite there in the first place hehe. I've only worn it twice and both times it was a bit - er - slippery. But the thing was mad cheap, so I wasn't really expecting super Prada quality or anything of it.

Thanks everyone who contributed ideas! ^_^ Looks like the straps and the tape are the way to go.

I was going to say double-sided tape, but a million people beat me to it.

But seriously...a tube top in November? I just wouldn't - even if it is warm where you live. Actually, I just wouldn't - ever.

I'd consider putting money down on the fact that Alice might've worn one or two in her youth.

The last time I wore a tube top I was six. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's illegal in 46 states to wear one after age eight.

Tell that to every chubby black woman in the last 5 years.

Oh no...somehow I'm getting the feeling that perhaps what I've been calling a tube top all along isn't actually a tube top. This happens a lot. Sorry all T_T *bow*

The type of shirt I've been speaking of this entire time is one like [this]. Guess it could just be called a "strapless shirt"... (and no that's not the shirt I bought)

um. oops. *blush* Suggestions still work though.

I'm pretty sure that's called a tube top. The majority of the people here just don't know how to talk to women is all.

Breast implants and a tummy tuck. If you're going to squeeze into a Chinese Finger Trap of a top like that, you'll need to be a 36E and have a size 0 waist.

Seriously though - two-sized tape will do fine or even a strapless bra could help, I'd think.

Women's fashion is so fucking bad, awful and stupid no wonder it changes every couple months.

That's why you just have to make your own fashion! ^_^ Then, you won't have to worry about what "fashion" is the next month when it totally changes because [insert dumb celebrity-who-there-is-nothing-at-all-to-be-celebrated-about's name here] wore whatever and everyone else was too blind to see really how ugly it is but instead heaps praises/lists the positives to justify the ugly thereby creating a trend (deathtoleggings). ick?

The tube top/whatever it's called makes for good layering for how I like to wear my clothes. That's just how it goes heh ^_^

I found a long length of rope this morning.

Now I know why God put it there. He's trying to clue me in. :(

Look.

This sounds terribly impractical. Either you don't have ample enough chest to hold the thing in place or you bought a really shitty tube top (yes, that is a tube top).

I really don't think the body tape or double-sided will work like it should, considering theres a lot more motion involved in the torso than you'd think.

How about you get creative and sew an elastic which is a little more...STRONG into the seam of the top?

Butt Sass, those shirts already are either made entirely of elastic or they already have an elastic strip around the top. They're like strapless bras. They just won't stay up no matter what. Plus, you know, they're tube tops. Ick.

Making the top seam of the shirt have a strong elastic grip totally ruins the point of wearing a tube top. :(

Or you could steal LeHah's length of rope and tie it around the tube top - once above your bouncy-bouncies, and once below. It would be a fashion statement, in addition to saying "look at what's between this rope!"

That's a tube top? I was thinking more along the lines of the ones that reveal just about a woman's entire stomach region. Just the chest is covered, and barely.

You know, I was completely unaware that it was common place for a woman to glue her dress to her tits. The more you know I guess...

Just so you aren't taken by surprise in the future, I should warn you that some women put bandaids over their nipples if they're being especially perky that day. I just put them over mine because I like how it feels.

Oh, I thought you meant a smaller tube top that covers just the chest. I didn't mean a corset either. I was talking about tie tops that cover just the chest. They feel a lot more dependable than elastic.

I dunno, Alice. I'm a FATTIE and I can make a tube top stick. (Yes, sadly they make tube tops for fatties. And no, I don't wear them. The only reason I know is because my fattie friends and I have had good times in Lane Bryant dressing rooms).

They're annoying, they're cheap, and they're slutty. If your clothes can't stay on for more than 10 minutes without gluing it to your tits, I would say its PROBABLY not worth the hassle.

And yea, sewing an elastic under the seam defeats the purpose of the tube top, but if your tits can keep it up as it is, then maybe you should consider another type of top. =/ (Seriously. SO MUCH WORK for a tube top. Women.)

It's understandable how that one stays up. It's too fucking small for the bitch.

Hey, man. I'm not saying it's a GOOD idea, okay? I am sure most men aren't really....attracted to that kind of thing. And if you're fucking FAT, you really shouldn't try the whole "I'M SO AWESOME 'CUZ I'M FAT - LOOK!" routine.

I am a fattie, but I approve of being MODEST about nauseating people in public.

But then again, some men DO enjoy that kind of thing in the same notion that they enjoy extremely anorexic women who look as though they could snap under the weight of a bottle of water. (Thats not directed at you, Devo.)

Sass, would you willingly please those few and retarded men that enjoy larger women?

I'm not sure what you're getting at. I don't wear tube tops. I am not fucking retarded.

On a side note, I would never wear a tube top, even if I were skinny. It's a matter of personal dignity. I think it's a whorish look. But you know me.

Strange. I must be trying on all the wrong things.

The strapless dresses that I've ever worn have usually had the same slipping problem on me and many that I know. And this particular tube top in question does go all the way down. So it's not that overly skanktastic I don't think. Especially because, again, I wont' wear anything strapless (or strap-py, even) without something over it i.e. a jacket. I was thinking of tube tops that DO go all the way down paired with a skirt equaling a dress when asking the question. Sorry about the misunderstanding. Those examples you posted are a bit...erm...extreme, ne? O_o I've never seen anyone dressed like that in public. Guess I'm going to all the wrong places to see that type of clothing too...

Is this supposed to imply that those who do wear tube tops are retarded? O_o I totally agree that in certain forms and fashions and the way that tube tops are commonly worn aren't particularly modest, but I'm finding it a bit strange that this particular type of top is being so heavily regarded as "for whores only" when I think, when worn with the right accessories or dressings, be you fat or skinny, it can be very stylish, even in a business setting. Just keep your jacket on.

I guess it's just all in how you wear it. I'm not particularly thin myself, but I'm not totally popping out of this top from either end (again, see, "it goes down all the way" up there). It fits me fine. It just slips. Maybe it's the breasts after all. By the next time I'm wearing this top, I'll have since considered the reasonable suggestions previously provided (or to be provided) and taken it. For me, this isn't impractical as I enjoy modifying clothing so I (or whoever I'm modifying it for) look better and can enjoy wearing it. Yes, a weirdo, I know, but it's not really any big deal for me to do something simple that I enjoy so that I can enjoy. ^_^

So, yea, again, thanks all for your suggestions...I guess a mod can close this if they so feel or let the discussion continue (I honestly never forsaw it going into a full out discussion of the apparent controversy of tube tops hehehe) but I've gotten my answer.

I'm fairly certain it's supposed to imply that very large people who wear tube tops are retarded.

Oh. I see. Oopsies...sorry Sassafrass...T_T In that light, I also didn't mean to/wasn't meaning to/don't mean to imply that you're implying that people who wear tube tops are retarded. I was just wondering what exactly the question meant. Thanks, Xardion.

You know, never have I seen someone more deserving of their over all 2 rating. Kudos, Ayos. Way to set the bar, buddy.

Um... where did this come from, and what are you getting at, exactly? Cause you just totally confused me. :eyebrow:

See, there's the clarity I was looking for. You could just say something like "Your attempt at dry humor about this topic failed miserably."

If those were actual attempts at humor, it's a sad time for humanity indeed.

I thought they were attempts at being the creepy internet guy.

Hey, I never claimed I was funny. I'd hate to be thought of as funny by those who currently think I'm not. It would basically shatter my world, and lower my expectations of everyone here.

No no, creepy internet guy would have said something more along the lines of "Hey, your tits would look RAD in a tube top, try it out and take some pictures and send them to me."
I think.

Ummm....

Is the top of the tube top even all the way around? If it's lower in the back, then the front tries to even itself out. And people have a habit of pulling shirts down to straighten them, so without straps, the tube top just keeps going.

Also, add some elastic to the top seam. It's not hard.

Double Post:
So, where's YOUR tube top?

:naughty:

It's sitting in my closet cause it won't stay up - I couldn't get LeHah to let me borrow his length of rope :( Plus if I posted any more pictures of myself... Devo wouldn't be able to have kids. EVAR.

Why don't you try talking her into wearing a corset, hotshot.

Haha tube tops. I have a lot of trouble supressing the automatic "ho" thought reflex that pops up whenever I see someone wearing them.

I wouldn't wear one, but there are lots of things I wouldn't wear just because of my non-skinny build. Maybe God's keeping me slightly overweight on purpose so that I won't become a slut... It's possible! *shifty eyes*
Low self-confidence = # of tramps decreases

Also, I totally thought Ayos was funny. *thumbsup*

I was too busy making it into a noose for you.

Aye, mate. It was a commentary on the humour sort of stalling the thread and not really eliciting much of a chuckle.

kiyo-chan, don't let these guys bother you. I thought the shirt that you linked to looked very lovely. There IS a stigma against tube tops, but I think that's mostly directed at the tops that only cover the thoracic region, I wouldn't even consider the black top you showed a "tube top." I hope you're able to make it work for yourself!

Just use double sided tape. Regular ol' Scotch can do the trick, really. Happens with strapless bras too... my solution is clear straps.