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OK, So this invention is not going to change the world, but then what can change this bad, mad and wicked world we live in?
My workplace imploys a "Smart-Casual" dress code (misnomer alert!) and most men, including me, wear a shirt in the open neck style.
During the winter months I like to wear
a T-Shirt under my shirt. I do not own any sleeveless vests to wear under my shirt, as I still consider myself to be a funky young thing. :)
The problem is that the T-shirt peeks through the open neck of the shirt, and looks very scruffy. I propose a clip that will hold the front of my T-Shirt down onto the top closed button of my shirt.
The clip will attach around the 2nd top button of the shirt and an elastic cord extends to a small plastic hook which holds the top of the T-Shirt.
Would also be useful for the ladies, to do a similar job on a plunging blouse.
You'll agree, No earth shattering invention. But it will allow me to be warm, and neat.
Banana Repuplic's spring line
http://www.bananare...ategory.do?cid=5424
(Though you might want to tuck the shirt in.) [DrCurry, Feb 23 2006]
Dickey or Dicky or Dickie
http://www.dakotama...com/dickiepage.html
Not sure I'd order from this particular web-site, but you get the idea. [jurist, Feb 25 2006]
Beehive plastics: Shirt clips
http://www.beehiveplastics.com/
Not quite this, but addressing a similar issue - shoulder straps. [jutta, Jul 11 2006]
Short name, e.g., Bob's Coffee
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Or you could buy v-neck t-shirts. |
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:) I think you just want to show off your chest hair (singular). |
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V-neck shirts feel very weird if you're not used to them. |
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//V-neck shirts feel very weird if you're not used to them.// |
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Unless you work on the Enterprise. |
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I'm puzzled. The hipper men's stores have been selling that look (t-shirt under open necked shirt, sometimes even a fully unbuttoned top shirt) for years now, and it doesn't look scruffy at all. |
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Maybe you just need some new t-shirts? |
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You prefer little itchy gizmos to a plain v neck t-shirt? Madness |
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I do have 1 or 2 v-neck T-shirts, but when I have used them and they are in the laundry basket, I use the non v ones. This is when I would use the clip. |
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It's just a little clip! Wouldn't it be nice if it existed? |
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//The hipper men's stores have been selling that look for years now// |
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[Dr Curry], You mean GAP? Sorry to tell you, 'daddy-o', but that's shop is not a 'hip' place for us young 'cats' to get our 'threads', at least not where I come from. :) |
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You are "hip" ? The fact that you are willing to wear a plastic clip on your shirt suggests otherwise, whatever benighted part of the world you live in. |
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You wont see the clip, it goes on the inside. You'll just see an open necked neckline.... |
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You're not fooling anyone, any more than your hidden pocket protector is. |
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Ah, you funky young thing, you need a dickey or even a turtleneck undergarment to solve your sartorial dilemma and prove your fashion superiority. |
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I've never seen anyone wear a turtleneck under a shirt! |
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I'm surprised no-one has suggested the crevat! |
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I could go and buy some new clothes, as suggested many times above. This is intended as an alternative, and significantly cheaper option. |
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I agree with [DrC]. I've been wearing tshirts under shirts for years, mainly because I feel the cold but also because I like the look of it (I am young and terrifyingly cool, by the way).
Besides, surely you could just buy a shirt with a higher 2nd button? I can only see this gizmo helping out podgy middle-management types who want to unbutton to third in a subconscious but still awful nod to the last days of disco and the fading memories of their youth. |
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re: what DB just said - I suppose a huge dangling pendant swinging around might hypnotise the workforce into thinking you were more suitably attired... |
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DB, are you truly terrifyingly cool? |
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I'm afraid not [po]. I sometimes approach "moderate suaveness" but quickly drop back down to "not overtly uncool" or "background level smooth". I stand by my comments about podgy middle management though. |
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I'm sure you're just being modest :) |
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//I'm surprised no-one has suggested the crevat// Isn't that French for "shrimp"? |
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Ah, if only that were true [po]. Doesn't matter though - I might not be cool, but I could well be one of the new co-opted adjectives. It's not a long stretch from "dopey" to "dope", for example. Equally, I might be "phat" or "crunk". Only time will tell! |
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Yeah, one of the local rags had a piece on how untidy middle aged beards were all the rage. |
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Written by an untidy middle-aged hack, no doubt. |
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/V-neck shirts feel very weird if you're not used to them./
But surely this little clip will distort your regular-shaped T into a v-necked simulation? How is that different to wearing v-necks in the first place? |
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Next: "Boxer Shorts Clip". So, you can wear boxer shorts, clip them up tight so they can be "briefs" (/tighty whiteys)? |
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Ridiculous, but perhaps not enough so. |
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Clips would be good to stop boxer shorts protruding from very short shorts. |
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Well, you can get clips for that (those) too. I'm sure there are plenty of online marts that would be delighted to help you out. |
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[Texticle] must know something about very short shorts... do you feel a breeze? |
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