Bra Straps!

henetha - my problem as well doing zumba and playing golf. I solved it by wearing sports bras.

Oh Janie I've the same annoying problem which is more noticeable with a sleeveless summer dress. In those I've made 'strap-traps' with a loop of fabric and press-studs.
In winter I try to tighten them just a little to get them tight enough to stay up but loose enough to be comfy. Where's the happy medium?

You may need a smaller size bra with a deeper cup size,

I’ve always had this problem due to narrow, sloping shoulders, it’s a real pain. Those little retainers are still available but they’re not really suited to all clothes. My life has changed since I discovered racing back bras. ?

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I always wear an underwired bra and have large boobs so maybe the bra can't ride up and the weight of my boobs in the cups stops the straps having any leeway. Possibly!!

Agree with suzied.

Come on ladies, get a bra fitting done, wear a cross body bag that doesn't pull one shoulder down and as the bossy deportment mistress always tried to drum into us- stand up straight, shoulders back and down. Result- bra straps should stay put.

If your bra straps fall off you are wearing the wrong size bra surely? straps should feel tight and should not move- that’s why they are adjustable. Lingerie straps can be sewn into the shoulder seams of sleeveless dresses and used to be a feature of hand sewn couture garments, so that ones underpinnings did not show. If falling straps is a problem possibly go to a proper fitting service ?

I've never had the problem. Am I the abnormal one?

This is a real nuisance and happens all the time. Especially when leaping about at keep fit and trying to dance and stretch etc.... bra straps half way down arms and quite painful!

I have the same problem but not with everything, I have the same make of bra, but it depends on what I wear, most things are fine, and other jumpers/t shirts etc dont seem to suit my bra, quite odd really, but I am lucky not to have this problem regularly.

Do you remember when we had shoulder bags and we were later warned that it made us "tilt" to one side to stop the bag sliding off because we raised one shoulder higher to keep the bag in place. Across body bags made such a difference.

I used to have this problem quite badly but like Auntieflo, I now have deep grooves where the straps go.

I used swear by the m and s silicone lined straps but then they stopped doing them? I was told problem with allergic reactions? I now have gone over entirely to elasticated croptops for fraction of price ans available in all sorts of colours.... like sorts bras but lighter. I have narrow shoulders.

I have the shoulders of an American footballer so no problem for me! I have the opposite prob though - if I wear a boat neck or wide neck top, the bra straps show clearly as they are nearer to my neck than the shoulders of the top (if you folllow). It's really annoying - means I either have to wear a flesh coloured bra or a coloured one as my whites go grubby so fast!

You used to be able to buy little ribbons with press studs that you sewed into the shoulders of dresses and blouses to secure bra straps with, but I haven't seen any for years!

Some of the problem is that the straps are made of slippy material, sometimes it is a matter of adjusting them correctly, which means putting on bra, taking it off, adjusting straps and putting it back on again a number of times until you get it right.

Has anyone tried tacking a thin piece of foam rubber to the back of a bra strap? It might help.

I have stopped sandal straps from slipping, or even worse digging in to my foot by putting a piece of the sticky-backed foam insulating tape for windows and doors on the inside of the offending strap. It does work.

I wonder would a few drops of glue using a hot glue gun help (let the glue cool first)

I find the strap falls off the side that I dont have my handbag over my shoulder.
I think that over the years I have held my 'handbag shoulder' more upright.

Could part of the problem be that some of us develop rounded shoulders as we get older. I sometimes catch a glimpse of myself in a shop window and have to pull my shoulders back. When I do this my straps stay on.

I think it is to do with where the straps are attached. Prettier bras tend to have them attached more towards the outer part of the cup, to enhance cleavage, I think.
More sturdy bras have them further in towards the middle.

Glad I'm not the only one with this problem. It's always my left one that slips off, and I put it down to the elastic getting looser, but atter reading Bubbe' s message I wonder if it's because I have a curvature of the spine, so I'm not symmetrical.

I wonder if it's something to do with the angle at which the straps are attached to the cups part? Difficult to explain what I mean, but if the straps are attached more towards the middle of each cup, rather than the outer edge, that would make a difference, plus it would change the angle of the strap from sloping outwards at the shoulder. IYSWIM!

I have sloping shoulders and have to resign myself to not wearing bras with -far apart straps. This means in effect that I always choose the slightly less pretty bras with straps nearer the neck end of my shoulders. Always the total control style actually.

My strap falls off one shoulder far more than the other.
I always think I must be very misshapen.

I'm so glad to hear other people have this irritation too. Its been a lifelong niggle of mine.

A few years ago I had a bolero made by a dressmaker and she informed me that one of my shoulders was shorter than the other AND that it sloped at a different angle. So I just thought this was the cause of bra-strap slips.

She did tell me that most people's bodies are different on each side, although I don't notice others regularly hoiking up their strap.