I only have 3 shirt stays

1/27/2009 8:39:03 PM

que?

1/27/2009 8:39:59 PM

did one shirt stray?

41k

1/27/2009 8:40:56 PM

they keep your shirt from coming untucked

1/27/2009 8:41:24 PM

Uhm, since when is your shirt coming untucked a major problem?

1/27/2009 8:42:13 PM

is for me

[Edited on January 27, 2009 at 8:42 PM. Reason : but i dont' use these things]

1/27/2009 8:42:39 PM

re-read the topic

1/27/2009 8:42:51 PM

They hold your socks up.

1/27/2009 8:44:28 PM

I'm assuming the back shirt stay is the lost one and you showed crack?

1/27/2009 8:44:34 PM

Quote :

"We were thumbing through a police supply catalog the other day and came across these guys. They're like those garters old men wear, but instead of anchoring your socks to your calves they use the power of your socks falling down to keep your shirt tails from constantly blousing out like Seinfeld. And if your socks aren't bugging you or you're not wearing them, they've got another model where the bottom ends in a little stirup for your heel (two of our editors got in a really big argument about which one was probably developed first). Anyways, we hate it when that shirt-thing happens--as apparently do cops--so we were pretty psyched to see some brilliant mind had foregone AIDS and cancer to cure something real for a change and ordered ourselves a set. When they arrived we paired up our loosest, most billowy shirt with our least elastic socks and clipped the foor little straps in place (there are two in the back) for our first taste of this brave new, constantly tucked world. Within steps the back right one had popped loose from its tail and made its way out of the pantleg. We tried fixing it, but it kept snapping off one of the ends and bunching up like when you're trying to get the last corner of a bedsheet on. Eventually we gave up and just let it hang loose down the back of our leg. The instructions warn that all four stays need to be in place for the system to be effective, but we were doing pretty fine with just the three--both socks were up, shirt was still fully tucked--besides feeling like a some sort of a nerd-transvestite everything seemed to be in order. It was right at this peak of confidence, however, that we discovered shirt stays' fatal flaw: Sitting. Every time you take a step and your knees bend, the back straps slightly give and the front straps tug just enough to let you know they're working. But when your knee starts approaching a right angle everything falls to shit. The front dealers slide off to the back of your leg while the back ones just hang there like idiots, giving your shirt plenty of slack to start poofing out. You'd think this would correct itself when you stand up, but somehow it's even worse. Instead of pulling your shirt back in, the front stays catch on the side of your leg and just pull your socks way too far up to compensate. Then once you start walking, every time your leg straightens it slides back into place for just long enough to make you think it's fixed before snapping back to the side with a couple of leg hairs in tow. It feels like being bullied by your own clothes. Maybe the stirup-model fixes this bug (pretty solid evidence that it came second), but to be honest, we couldn't spare the would-be geniuses at Law Pro 12 more bucks for another round of this level of disappointment. We still hold out hope that someday someone will learn from this abominable failure and, standing on the shoulders of shirt stays, finally surmount this obstacle--our money's on magnetic underwire. "

1/27/2009 8:44:40 PM

oooooh

picture looked like suspenders

1/27/2009 8:45:45 PM

Okay I have no idea what this accessory item is, peace out.

1/27/2009 8:46:19 PM

I have never had issues with my shirt stays. These are the ones I have -- bought from a military surplus store.



[Edited on January 27, 2009 at 8:47 PM. Reason : ]

1/27/2009 8:46:49 PM

^Same ones I use but one came off today and I don't know where it went.

1/27/2009 8:51:13 PM

I believe I'd had one come off once, maybe twice. Just make sure they're extra tight at the connection points and you should be good to go unless you're running or something (and hopefully you're not doing that in uniform or a good suit).

1/27/2009 10:02:37 PM

So, I'm guessing one end clips to your shirt....but where does the other end clip???

1/27/2009 10:16:09 PM

I found it!

2/3/2009 4:16:39 PM

yea where does the other end clip?

I'm a little scared for your junk right now. Please help.

2/3/2009 4:22:30 PM

i use this and it's awesome


except when travelling i always get stopped at the xray machine

[Edited on February 3, 2009 at 4:26 PM. Reason : collar stays, not shirt stays though]

2/3/2009 4:25:56 PM

those are fucking collar stays you dipshit

2/3/2009 4:28:13 PM

Quote :

"4 Shirt Stays = Good, 3 Shirts Stay = No Good Baaaaaaaaahhd /animal farm "

2/3/2009 4:28:55 PM

^^no shit

but i'm also not orville fuckin redenbacher wearin shirt stays

[Edited on February 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM. Reason : e]

2/3/2009 4:29:54 PM

I have never been hit in man land but it can happen. Most of the time they come unclipped from your shirt and falls out your pant leg.

2/3/2009 4:45:00 PM

oh, I thought you were talking about the collar stays

I have a few billion of them

they give me a hand full every time I go to men's warehouse

2/3/2009 5:15:02 PM

these are so dumb

if you go to the dry cleaner like a normal person than they handle all that shit for you

I never even fuck with any of these shits

and I always look dapper

2/3/2009 5:17:38 PM

Because dry cleaning your shirt keeps it from coming untucked

2/3/2009 5:20:50 PM

i have never had this problem

2/3/2009 5:28:17 PM

me not being an uncoordinated fuck keeps it from coming untucked

I sit at a desk

what are doing that cause your shirt to come out ?

2/3/2009 5:30:08 PM

these are widely used in the military, especially for dress inspections, or if you work in an admin role around a lot of high ranking officers.

i suppose cops use them a lot too.

2/3/2009 5:34:45 PM

2/3/2009 5:35:21 PM

that's why I bought a bunch extra. PM me if you need some.

2/3/2009 5:41:12 PM

somewhere, someone got popped in the eye by a flying shirt stay

2/3/2009 5:47:23 PM

http://dsasd.org/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=108

FTW

(i use these every day in uniform...which is pretty much every day)

2/3/2009 6:13:52 PM

^ Ha ha ha haha!!! I used those with that exact picture at ODS. In my opinion, females' shirts stay tucked better and you don't need shirt stays as much. But they work good except for this part

Quote :

"feeling like a some sort of a nerd-transvestite"

2/3/2009 6:36:22 PM

on patrol i dont wear them, my shirt stays pretty tight anyways and i would rather be comfortable

2/3/2009 7:01:07 PM

I can't stand not wearing them. Otherwise its un-tucked city. Lets see how long they stay on tonight!!

2/3/2009 7:08:58 PM

PilgrimShoes. Buy me one of those and ship it to me. Srsly. The dry cleaners in Japan don't know what collar stays are and they threw all of my collar stays away when I sent the shirts off to the dry cleaners.

2/3/2009 7:36:37 PM