Advantages of Wearing Suspenders

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Meanderer

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Anyone here like to wear suspenders?

Wearing suspenders contributes to better posture by applying pressure on the shoulders, stimulating the brain and the body to straighten and balance itself front to back, in much the same way that balancing a book on your head stimulates the body to straighten and balance itself in all directions. The body naturally wants to balance itself. The brain and the body take in many sensual cues for sustaining balance and posture, including visual, inner ear (cochlea) and pressure exerted on the muscles and joints. We feel balanced based upon the information sent from the muscles and joints to our brains, and our brains assume that we are balanced when there is equal pressure from side to side and back to front.

Suspender straps provide an additional physical sense to give the body even more cues. The gentle pressure exerted by suspender straps on the shoulders “tricks” the body by creating the necessary stimulus that forces it to respond by straightening and balancing from front to back. This, in turn, has the effect of making the person “stand taller.” Good standing posture is when the ears, shoulders, hips, knees and ankles are “stacked” in a straight line, shoulders relaxed and knees slightly bent. Poor posture causes muscular strain that can cause injuries and wastes energy. Good posture, enhanced by wearing suspenders, makes the person look healthier, allows clothes to fit better and makes a better impression on others. The result of wearing suspenders then, is healthier for the entire body.

They cause the body to reflexively straighten itself, encouraging the person to stand taller. Suspender wearing also creates better posture and eliminates pressure on abdominal organs while sitting or standing, since pants can be worn more loosely. Habitual suspender wearers can now claim health rewards as well as fashion rewards.
 
In the UK we call them Braces. Suspenders are what women wear to hold up their stockings.

When I was young I wore braces, as all young boys did, but as we got older fashions changed, and we stopped wearing them, preferring belts instead. However, I remember my mum saying to me that because American men wore belts instead of braces, they had more tummy troubles, as the belt cut right into where their intestines were.

I think she was right, even though I wear a belt to keep my trousers up. But last summer we went to a wedding and for the first time in many many years I wore braces to keep up the suit trousers I was wearing, as they were rather long, and I didn't have time to get them taken up. So I wore braces, with the result that I had to be careful how I stood up, or sat down, as the crotch of my trousers got pulled up in all the wrong places (so to speak!), and several times I found myself in some discomfort. 😧😮😲🤢
 
My husband and I were invited to a wedding, and I told him to wear his braces because he was having trouble with his belt. No, he didn't listen to me and when the speeches were over and the music started, he got up and took me on to the dance floor, within 2 minutes the inevitable happened, yes, his trousers fell to the floor, much to everyone's laughter.
 
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Why do firemen wear red suspenders?

But seriously, I wear them all the time for the same reason as a fireman (to hold my pants up). Yep that's the reason, and the only reason. But I do feel those things like the difference in my posture and the other reasons you give for wearing them.
 
Perhaps incorrectly, I always thought "suspenders" attached to the top of waistband with metal clips while "braces" attached to buttons sewn to the inside of the waistband. I had my last suspenders around age 10.

For many years during my professional life I wore suits and always used silk braces. I probably still have 6-8 sets of braces around somewhere.
 
I don't know about the medical benefits. I'm built without the hips to keep my pants up. I don't have to keep pulling my pants up while wearing suspenders. I also haven't sun burned the vertical smile since I started wearing them.
 
  • Sock Garters: Specifically for holding up socks.
  • Braces: Typically refer to formal wear that attaches with button-on leather ends to trousers.
  • Suspenders: Often used for more casual, clip-on, or hidden undergarment applications.
 

Have you seen Billy the Kid's suspenders?​

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Now the search is on for a pair of suspenders some experts believe the Kid, also known as William H. Bonney, was wearing in 1878 when he allegedly posed on a rock in New Mexico with one pistol in his right hand and another in a holster. When the albumen print surfaced this year, it was known as Two Gun Billy.
 
The only thing that holds my pants up is a pair of suspenders. My belly size creates a funnel effect that pushes my trousers downward.

So its out if necessity and not fashion that I wear suspenders.

I find them uncomfortable on my shoulders but short of super-gluing my pants to my shirt tails, I decided to wear them.
 
I've never owned suspenders and don't want them. It wouldn't like the pressure they would put by pulling down on my shoulders. I don't think I've ever even known anyone who wears them, and I never see them on anyone around here, unless they have a kind that goes under their clothing.

Most pants are made with belt loops, so to me, it just wouldn't look right to not have a belt on. It would look like something was missing - but I've always heard that a belt and suspenders should never be worn at the same time.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I've never owned suspenders and don't want them. It wouldn't like the pressure they would put by pulling down on my shoulders. I don't think I've ever even known anyone who wears them, and I never see them on anyone around here, unless they have a kind that goes under their clothing.

Most pants are made with belt loops, so to me, it just wouldn't look right to not have a belt on. It would look like something was missing - but I've always heard that a belt and suspenders should never be worn at the same time.
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Belts don't work when you have funnel belly.
They're meant for more slender figures.
 
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I know a few that wear them. Some wear suits. Most work in the woods or taking trees down from the top, using bucket trucks. A couple EMS that wear suspenders and a belt. The belt is there to hold their utilities. Tradesmen usually can't free up a hand to pull up their britches.
 
Braces, or suspenders if you prefer, offer distinct advantages in comfort and functionality that belts simply can't match. By evenly distributing weight across your shoulders, suspenders help reduce waist pressure and maintain your trousers' position effortlessly and their unique style adds a vintage flair to your wardrobe.

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There again, most men wouldn't know what a fishtail waistband was anymore than they remember buttoned flies or eighteen inch wide fitting legs with the hemline turned up.

Look at the back of the waist band, that vee shape is known as a fishtail.
 
stretch5881 said:
I know a few that wear them. Some wear suits. Most work in the woods or taking trees down from the top, using bucket trucks. A couple EMS that wear suspenders and a belt. The belt is there to hold their utilities. Tradesmen usually can't free up a hand to pull up their britches.
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Maybe they'd be useful for plumbers, etc., who 'don't say No to crack'.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
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