Functional Fashion Tip
One thing I love about summer is how we get to experiment with fashion. It's a time of year to wear anything that we feel like. Our wardrobe includes anything and everything like skirts, dresses, shorts, jeans/pants, tank tops, and t-shirts. You don't have to worry about being too cold in an outfit.
Although with some of the fashion choices that many girls today make is the risk of the dreaded bra strap hanging out from the shirt or dress. I don't care if your 15 or 90, that look is not attractive on anyone. Especially if you are trying to make an impression. Think about it! Would you want your bra strap slipping out at a job interview or meeting, being introduced to your significant others' family for the first time, or even just having a night on the town with a group of friends? My answer is no, and my guess is you're thinking the same thing.
Now over the years, there have been a few ideas about how to avoid this. Some work, but only with specific shirts:
Many bras have the capability to remove the strap and go strapless. This is convenient but for me, this sometimes can also be a pain. Sometimes I don't mind having a strapless bra, and other times I feel like I have to keep pulling it up.
For those bras with removable straps, you don't necessarily have to make it strapless. With a racer back tank top, can criss cross the straps. Then for a one shoulder top you can take one of the straps, have it hooked to the front on one side and carry it behind your head to hook it in the back of the opposite side.
This is also very convenient, but if you get home late from an occasion then you just want the simplest getting ready for bed routine you can have and with this taking the bra off has an addition step or two.
So while we have always had these options to keep our bra straps from showing, they may not be suitable for everyone. I recently came across a company called Strappy's Designer Bra Straps. I have been testing them out for a couple weeks now and I must say I love them.
They are meant for those bras with removable straps, but for those of you who don't want to go strapless or criss cross then it makes letting the bra straps show acceptable (within reason, of course). When I say you're bra straps can show, I'm thinking instead of a strapless bra with a one shoulder shirt then you can let the Strappy's show. It will look like the strap is actually a part of the top you are wearing.
Strappy's Designer Bra Straps comes in many different patterns and can be dressed up as fancy as the occasion you want it for. The kind that I have is a very basic model with a cute pattern and a couple pearl-looking stones embellished on it. Their website is www.strappys.com, and if you go there you will see beaded and jeweled bra straps for fancier events and fabric straps for something a little more casual.
And I will let you know not to worry about the straps being made of a something other than fabric because they are very comfortable. One occasion that I enjoy wearing my Strappy's Designer Bra Straps is actually salsa dancing. Getting into the salsa spirit I love to wear racer back tanks or the types of tees that fall off of one shoulder. Well, when you're salsa dancing the last thing you want is a strapless bra, but you also want to avoid letting that plain, ugly, normal strap show.
It's definitely a fashion staple worth keeping in the closet, because you get the benefits of being functional and fashionable. It's takes some of those semi-convenient tricks we all knew and offers up a simpler, practical idea.
