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*

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Get a boob job.


Uhm, I wouldn't really know. Sorry.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Staples.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Colonel Skills

Staples.

How ya doing, buddy?

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Ayos

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.

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

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by OctoberOmicron

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.

Whore charm is still charm.

Maybe you could add elastic to the top?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Add straps and then...

oh wait. Nevermind.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Kesubei

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

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

Most amazing jew boots

Sew on straps? Elastic straps.....

FELIPE NO

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.

How ya doing, buddy?

You mean, a corset?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Iris

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.

I think Blah was referring to this.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Devoxy

To be honest I didn't know they existed until some girl wore one to our Senior Boat Cruise event, it was pink and extremely trampy.

Apparently it got the job done!

I was speaking idiomatically.

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

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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.

Originally Posted by Iris

Well, I don't know why you'd want to wear a tube top in the winter.

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.

FELIPE NO

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



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

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by neus

Get a boob job.

Originally Posted by Colonel Skills

Staples.

Hehe...you both must've missed the words "simple modifications" in the initial post...

Originally Posted by Iris

Well, I don't know why you'd want to wear a tube top in the winter.

Originally Posted by Ryuu

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.

Originally Posted by Domino

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

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?

Originally Posted by Devoxy

Also tube tops (unless they're a top to a dress) are dumb, wear a real shirt.

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...

Originally Posted by Domino

It could just be that the elastic has gone.

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.