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Does anyone use "shirt stays" or "shirt garters"
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imported_elwood
Senior member
My uniforms for work have a bead of silicone around the waist to keep your shirt tucked in. It's good and bad. It's bad because it makes it pretty difficult to adjust your shirt once it's tucked in. It works really well at retaining the tuckness though!
Clearwater
Junior Member
I found some shirt stays (garters) on this website - Supertuks - ordered them, tried them out and WOW, do they ever work well!
They look and feel quite a bit better than most of the other offerings out there like the really plain, generic ones that you can find on E-bay and other such on-line ordering websites. The quality is very much first rate. The pair I originally got I'm still wearing daily - on the job and off - and that was over 2 years ago. They are better than the current offerings - including the latex belt known as the Hidden Tailor (IMO), in many ways:
1. The elastic used is superior, as wide as the straps they use for dress suspenders (1.25 inches). In fact, I believe that the elastics are the same in materials and quality as those used with trouser suspenders, not like the "bra-strap" el-cheapo elastics they use in other shirt stays.
2. The shirt clips are very well made and will not lose the black rubber tabs used to secure the clip to the shirt hem.
3. The clips used to attach to the socks are like those similarly found on trouser suspenders, allowing for quick and easy disengagement without the removal of your slacks. Also, I have not yet had a sock clip become disengaged and snap me in the nards. This is because the stays are of the Y-configuration and are generally worn on the outside of the legs.
4. The 2 "branches" that form the "y'' are allowed free travel through the D-ring at the junction (not fixed like on other shirt stays) allowing more freedom of movement and mobility as you stretch forward or back.
5. Unlike the other shirt stays on the market that make you look kinda stupid when one of the shirt clips comes undone (allowing the bottom strap to drop out from your pantleg and creating questions), Supertuks have a fail-safe elastic cord that prevents the stays from coming apart should a shirt clip detach. The cord will hold the setup together indefinitely until you can get to somewhere private to re-secure them, although you can try reaching in through your fly for a single-handed reattachment. This cord is a first when it comes to shirt stays.
6. Once you get used to them, you won't even feel them anymore. In fact, you'll get so used to them that you'll start to feel weird when you don't have them on especially with the whole 'sock sliding down' thing.
These are just a few points that I can think of.
Have a look at the website sometime and see for yourself!
Oh yeah, they're also made in Canada!!!
They look and feel quite a bit better than most of the other offerings out there like the really plain, generic ones that you can find on E-bay and other such on-line ordering websites. The quality is very much first rate. The pair I originally got I'm still wearing daily - on the job and off - and that was over 2 years ago. They are better than the current offerings - including the latex belt known as the Hidden Tailor (IMO), in many ways:
1. The elastic used is superior, as wide as the straps they use for dress suspenders (1.25 inches). In fact, I believe that the elastics are the same in materials and quality as those used with trouser suspenders, not like the "bra-strap" el-cheapo elastics they use in other shirt stays.
2. The shirt clips are very well made and will not lose the black rubber tabs used to secure the clip to the shirt hem.
3. The clips used to attach to the socks are like those similarly found on trouser suspenders, allowing for quick and easy disengagement without the removal of your slacks. Also, I have not yet had a sock clip become disengaged and snap me in the nards. This is because the stays are of the Y-configuration and are generally worn on the outside of the legs.
4. The 2 "branches" that form the "y'' are allowed free travel through the D-ring at the junction (not fixed like on other shirt stays) allowing more freedom of movement and mobility as you stretch forward or back.
5. Unlike the other shirt stays on the market that make you look kinda stupid when one of the shirt clips comes undone (allowing the bottom strap to drop out from your pantleg and creating questions), Supertuks have a fail-safe elastic cord that prevents the stays from coming apart should a shirt clip detach. The cord will hold the setup together indefinitely until you can get to somewhere private to re-secure them, although you can try reaching in through your fly for a single-handed reattachment. This cord is a first when it comes to shirt stays.
6. Once you get used to them, you won't even feel them anymore. In fact, you'll get so used to them that you'll start to feel weird when you don't have them on especially with the whole 'sock sliding down' thing.
These are just a few points that I can think of.
Have a look at the website sometime and see for yourself!
Oh yeah, they're also made in Canada!!!
Clearwater
Junior Member
Used them in the sevice during Officer School.
Also, when visiting other bases (for the professional look), I would wear them.
When in my blues and working in the office/labs, I did not bother.
Ours were the single band. Shirt tale to the socks.
AyashiKaibutsu
Diamond Member
I use shirt garters every monday when I wear blues. When they come loose, they don't snap up or anything.
Shirt is wanted to be kept in and wrinkle free. When one stands back up, it is pulled back down.
Clearwater
Junior Member
Yo! I'm an extra large guy who happened to find the things amazing! I tried other things that either didn't work, or wouldn't fit me properly due to my size. If you don't like 'em, don't buy 'em!
I'm not computer literate enough to be a "spammer."
newnameman
Platinum Member
You forgot the free ipods.
AznAnarchy99
Lifer
I used them when I was in ROTC. Never came off and whipped my nuts or anything. You don't pull them that tight. They are semi loose.
StageLeft
No Lifer
No, but i thought of this idea a few years ago because it seeemd we needed them and a bunch of people told me the idea was stupid. I knew they were wrong. Apparently none of us had heard these had already been invented, but there IS indeed a market for them so F you naysayers!
you can definitely try some Tucked Trunks... they are the easiest thing you can wear that helps keep your shirt tucked in . They are basically boxer briefs that also keep the shirt tucked.
Stopsignhank
Platinum Member
Recently I switched from wearing jeans to slacks at work. Everyone started to tell me that I had to wear a belt. I don't wear belts so I started to untuck my shirt. Now no one tells me I have to wear a belt.
I hope I do not derail the thread.
I hope I do not derail the thread.
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