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Styled Out: Bringing back suspendersTried and true, suspenders have been a lesbian's best friend for decades. Back in the 1920s, it was all the rage for the gentlemen of the day to be hiking up their shorts with these stretchy shoulder straps and they sure were a helping hand to a gal pal disguising herself as a man in order to "pass." The look has never really gone away, it sort of ebbs and flows with the trends but since this autumn is all about the '90s it's back faster than you can spit out Jessie Spano.
More recently, they've been considered more of a "dress up" thing with lady-lovin'-ladies but I think that they could easily be incorporated into every day and dressed down when done right. Kristen Stewart recently got bashed for sporting them kinda questionably, but you cant blame her for trying.
She had everything else right: Torn knees on her jeans, pointy lace up shoes. Maybe the downfall was the tank, but I think that it's totally dashing to rock them with the right T-shirt and skinny jeans. Suspenders add an interesting element to an otherwise run-of-the-mill outfit, so don't' be afraid to try them on with a tight thermal and skinny jeans, the look might surprise you and your friends.
For dressing up, the combinations when using this accessory are kind of endless. You could add a pop of color to an otherwise drab three piece suit, using gold ones and pairing them with a gray wool suit and a white button down. Can you say perfection?
I love suspenders because they can be as bold or as subtle as you want them to be, dependent on whether you are relying on the suspenders themselves to take center stage on your ensemble or if you choose to let the hint of cool peek out from beneath a jacket — it's entirely your call.
I think that a lot of lesbians can recall when our beloved Ellen Degeneres set the tone for dykes everywhere on how to dress to impress by sort of cinching all the elements together a way that is both classic, classy and trendy all in the same wardrobe stint and for that we have to thank her.
Speaking of Ellen, she showed the world that dress pants and a T-shirt paired with some suspenders and a pair of Converse were a-OK and I know it's not the most common of practices these days, but get on it. Do I smell a full-on comeback? Submitted by on November 5, 2009 - 4:00pm. |
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I forgot...
I used to wear them...
I had to wear them in high school during jazz band concerts. And with my rack, the suspenders never seemed to lay right. They would just end up slipping way off to either side, practically under my armpits, as if to draw an outline around my boobs.
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i have exactly the same
rack donation
LOVE Suspenders!
I have several pairs. And, as a petite yet curvy woman, I can tell you they work no problem. It's just a matter of making sure you adjust them properly and don't get really cheap & flimsy ones. They kinda have to lay on the outside of the boobs.
i'm 5'1" and not of a large
I certainly think nobody
Something's missing...
Much better.
Thank You!
Good Call!!
How could an article on lesbians and suspenders not include Thirteen among the highlights (although granted, she's only deemed bisexual and not lesbian)? Disappointed that she wasn't mentioned in the article itself--but so glad someone else pointed this out! Cheers to Olivia Wilde making suspenders look awesome!
"Sometimes you can just have, like, a moment with someone--you know, when you're doing something totally random, and...it's just, like, charged or something! -Mischa Barton as Marissa Cooper on The O
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
that picture. In a ridiculously religous-y way.
When I play doctor, I play to win.
sexy suspenders!!!
ohh God, there´s nothing better and hot than a girl with suspenders...im so in love with them(both:suspenders and girls :P)..here other examples: Fergie on big girls dont cry...also how to forget kt tunstall!!!!
and here´s mine :P
loved that pic. gorgeous
loved that pic. gorgeous
SPENDERS!
I almost wore some to a concert the other night, but then i figured i'd be spazzing out too much and they'd snap off. I was right. suspenders are funsies.
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Ooh la la.
Suspenders ftwwww! Thanks Em.
If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.
ugh
with the right sort of look- with a jacket, etc., fine. with a tank/t? not so much- kstew perfectly illustrates the fail that often results.
we need to stop 'bringin it back' - american apparel and the scrunchie, anyone?
Bought some suspenders a
when i was a freshman in
they are bloody sexy
oh suspenders...
Oh yea! I started to wear
Oh yea! I started to wear them in my Freshman year with my saxophone class when we had concert for homecoming and year end concert. They were so sexy.. I loved them and later that year, me and my friends wore them, in different colors, with stylish pants, jeans and very cute ensembles. Suspender are very sexy and I still wear them sometimes.
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the wife's been talking
I love suspenders!!
Suspenders on girsl so smoking hot! I own a pair rainbow ones that I wore to a gay club once, I love em!
My partner and I was just talkin bout getting some two days ago so she can wear to work or something lol funny how this story came out right after hehe
SdQ Out!
Yup
coming back?!?
suspenders never left i own 9 pair of suspenders and 3 pair of sewn in suspenders for my shorts
"Hands upon my back again.
Survival is my only friend.
Terrified of what may come.
Remember I will always love you,
Even as I claw your fucking throat away.
But it will end no other way"
Tegan Quin
In this video Tegan is totally rocking out in white suspenders, and looking damn hot.
(was just re-watching it and thought of this article.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2War5EVV0A&feature=PlayList&p=7B7E3EEF331257EF&index=0&playnext=1