Girls and boys, hate all you want but, my impulse on this one is to scream a big NO, unless of course you’re a hot man, with a full beard, tats and fantastic style. Then… I might reconsider. 
Just saying you know.
Or, if you go less for the suspenders per se, and more for the harness look, as shown by designers a few years ago. 
McQueen, Versace, Prabal, Alexander Wang all went S&M on us with their versions of suspenders: wrapped around naked or not-so-naked bodies, rocked at Fashion Weeks by the cool fearless kids, resembling porn scenes more, rather than street style. Harnesses stuck for a while, and they are a more cutting edge version of the trend, which I’ll take anytime, over the suspenders. Picture this: white tee, jeans or suit trousers AND a leather cool harness on top, resembling a corset meets leather suspender. ;) 
Yet a harness does not a suspender make, so why don’t we talk about the braces now, and leave the S&M attire for another post.
With my negative impulse on a leash I will try to see what the buzz IS, WAS or COULD BE with the suspenders for women, and urge you to share your thoughts on this once-geek-attire. In men’s case, I am for a big YES if the above conditions are met. Right. … Right!?
When last week two of my girl-friends bought suspenders I was like meh… ‘Nice, if you’re into that sort of thing.’, but then it hit me: do I really dislike them? And if so why? It was a trend once, should we bring it back though? Or is it still alive? Fuck! So many questions and an inborn inability to remain unbiased.
Yes, suspenders are great for girls. IF YOU’RE 5!!!
Or at least that’s what I thought until recently: elastic suspenders, plaid, big glasses – a guarantee for geek’ish looks that severely lack in style. But after seeing a few street style photos & fashion editorials of French boho chic drop dead gorgeous women in suspenders, the veil of ignorance has been lifted. Suspenders can look fucking amazing for women as well. 
How? First of all, opt for leather styles, if Chanel suspenders (see Rihanna’s or Nicole Richie’s) do not float your boat. :) And second, to avoid looking like a hobo, wear them with high waisted fitted trousers, skinny jeans, 70s style wide-legged trouser suit, or skirts. Skirts & suits look best with suspenders. 
Basically the thing is… if you love it wear it. I’m the least to say what looks great or not in terms of suspenders, buuuut if I’d wear them (with a gun held at my temple) I’d opt for high waisted skinny jeans or trousers, crop top, or tucked in shirt (the last option is for work).
And I’d make sure they’re not too tightly pulled up, so I don’t walk like an invisible force is pulling a wedgie on me.
Instead of listening to my bitching about suspenders, why don’t you just have a look at how some of the savviest sartorials are doing the geek’ish risque style & get some inspo from them. Girls & boys alike. 
Er I take back everything I said or thought. I actually kinda sorta like suspenders. ;) OR if you wanna push the envelope on this style… wrap & cage yourself in a cool looking harness. Or not. 
What do you think : Do you wear suspenders? Would you wear them? And should we bring them back?
If you don’t mind I want to have another say in this !Because since my last post ,I have made a further step concerning my pant suspenders,Because now i m wearing everyday for my work and practicly everytime I go ouy ,very large high waisted pants with big buttons on the outside on wich I attach my new leather end suspenders,plus a man’s big cap upon my head ,because as i have shaven all of my hair off my head and now i am completly bald I just hide my baldness with my cap but it s so exciting to feel and be this way what s more my husband loves me just being like that.today too by the way i have made my husband dress up exactly the way i dress up including i even shaved his head bald too and when we are together we just love ourselves even more!and as soon as get children thet too will be dressed up in the same manner,and to be honestit s so xciting to feel yourself dressed up in such a manner!
I would like to have another say on this blog concerning hold up pant suspenders but since I’m wearing large pant suspenders it’s sure that it does maintain much beter my back and you feel much more secure too + it does suit women very much too !This is so true that the other day on the news we heard that a girl nearly got rapped in a dark street and what saved by wearing her button on leather end suspenders on her pants ,her rappers didn’t have time to do anything!that the police was allready upon them and being interviewed afterwards she told the reporters Thanks to my large leather end pant suspenders they did’nt have time to do anything ,So I’m surely going to keep on wearing pant suspenders and plus that they maintain me so well I think thet women should wear more and more pant suspenders !
To give you another positiv answer I personaly have allways worn large pant suspenders because I feel that they maintain me much better,and I also wear a belt with them .Wich my wife liked straight away stating that I was elegant and sexy too ,what’s more she like’s to hold me by my suspenders in the back too wherever we go ! latter on she told me that she too would like to wear suspenders with a belt like me ,,wich I may say pleased me a lot ! and saying that she did like the thought of it but never done it ,I told her that not to worry that the next time that we would go out shopping in theese immense hypermarkets we have here in france we would buy her a pair and a belt just like mine ,and in anycase suspenders suit women just as good as like on men !and we did just that ,when we came home having done our weekly shopping +the new pair of suspenders and the belt for my wife as she was wearing large bell bottom pants I fixed on her the new large suspenders ,aswell as the belt,and I then asked her how do you feel honey ,she answerd me just great !plus I like the feeling of my new suspenders upon my breasts too ! she then told me that a female worker in her plant was allready wearing pant suspenders and that she thought at the time wow she really does look great !and now she had realized that women looked great too in pant suspenders,I then said you see it’s nothing to it !and don’t worry keep on wearing your large pant suspenders because anyway suspenders are for both sexes men and women !and the other day for her birthday I made the surprise of buying her another pair of pant suspenders,but this time not elastic one’s but large leather on’es with buckles to regulate them and she was absolutely thrilles whe opening her packet !so now she wears them on sundays or when we go and visit our family ,wher again she was complimented of wearing her thick black pant suspenders with the big metalic buckles ,and even one of my girl cousins who is married too asked from wich shop in this big commercial compound we had found them!we told her and the next day she was allready wearing them and she too did lookgreat !so ther you go there’s nothing to it ,and anyway if i may speak my mind out,well i realize that a matter of fact wome wear pant suspenders even much more better than men !
Before I knew my husband i never dressd up wearing braces,or pant suspenders as called in the us!,but since i’m married as my husband he wears large pant clip on suspenders on bare skin and just a nylon buttoned overall over them ,wich I liked straight away,he asked me to wear one’s on my skin with no bra and just like him I just put my working nylon overall buttoned in th back !the feel is great and i like it no wonder he like’s wearing all this because it’s very pleasant and sexy too!.Lately he bought me a pair of very large leather pant suspenders with huge metal clips for when we go out ,wich I like very much too ,and I allways wear over my leather black suspenders a very thin white blouse wich you can see practicly through it ! and there it’s very exciting wearing them too !anyway i’m for large pant suspenders ,even for my kids too I even take pleasure of putting on my boy and girl not only pant suspenders but with a belt +a nylon buttoned overall buttoned in their backs plus a nice leather harness with walking reins wich I like very much ,The only thing is that they cannot go to toilet at school ,but that problem I’ve resolved too !by putting as under wear plastic knickers wich keep’s them in security !
Thanks for pointing out that skirts and suits look best with suspenders. I will try this style for myself since I want to experiment for the first time. I should find a nylon duty suspender with a D ring belt keeper to have a unique look for this style I am imagining right now. http://nylonwebgear.com/shop/ols/products/suspender-d-ring-belt-keeper
I would like to answer miss or mrs Sally burattin,Me too i like to wear pant suspenders,and even with shorts and I’m over 70 years old,but it’s true thet here in france ” a lot of people do wear pant suspenders “men and women! too. Actualy I was speaking of the subject the other day with my family doctor ,who told me that wearing pant suspenders ( or with skirts) wad very good for maintaining the back and made you stand straighter ,! So for health in general it’s good!So if you allow me to say ,dear miss or mrs burattin if you feel your in the need to wear pant suspenders just wear them whatever your age is and it does’nt matter if you’re a man or a woman ,as we say here in france,” if you want to please yourself just do it” and don’t worry about the other people because the day that you find yourself without money nobody will give you some ” ( an old french proverb” !yours cordially mr mark saniez
ALLREADY WHEN I WAS A SCHOOLGIRL IN THE UK THAT IS PRIMARY SCHOOL THEN IN COLLEGE I HAD TO WEAR THE UNIFORM WICH WAS COMPOSED OF A WHITE BLOUSE A TIE LONG WHITE SOCKS WITH BIG LACED FLAT SHOES AND OF COURSE A NAVY BLUE PLEATED SKIRT WITH BUTTONED STRAPS CROSSED IN THE BACK AND STRAIGHT IN THE FRONT UP TILL I WAS 18 . SO I ALLWAYS KNEW THAT I HAD TO WEAR STRAPS OR SUSPENDERS AS YOU CALL THEM IN NORTH AMERICA .LATER ON ONCE I WAS OUT OF COLLEGE I WORKED IN AN OFFICE FOR BR ?THE BRITISH RAILWAYS AND WE WERE ALLREADY IN THE MID EIGHTIES AND ALLWAYS FOLLOWING THE RETRO MODE I LIKED TO WEAR A GIRDLE WITH SUSPENDERS FOR MY STOCKINGS AND PUTING ON TOO SKIRTS OR PANTS WITH STRAPS + IN THE OFFICE WE ALL HAD TO WEAR A BLUE NYLON BUTTONED OVERALL ON TOP AND THE BR BERET TOO .BUT AT THAT TIME I WAS ALLREADY MARRIED AND AS SOON AS MY KIDS REACHED THE AGE OF 4 AND STARTED TO GO TO SCHOOL THEY TOO WERE WEARING SHORT TROUSERS WITH STRAPS TOO ASWELL AS WEARING A LEATHER HARNESS WICH WAS LEFT ON INSIDE THE HOUSE TOO SO IF THEY MOVED TOO MUCH I COULD TIE THEM TO A CHAIR .i AM NOT FORGETTING MY HUSBAND EITHER.BECAUSE HE TOO I MADE HIM WEAR LARGE CLIP ON BRACES A TIE AND A CAP AND I EVEN SHAVED HIS HAIR WITH AN ELECTRIC SHAVER AND HE HAD TO LISTEN WHAT I SAID i KNOW WHAT YOU THINK THAT I WAS THE ONE GIVING THE ORDERS BUT IT WAS JUST LIKE THAT FINAL .BUT THE OTHER DAY I ASKED MY DOCTOR ABOUT IT AND HE TOLD ME THAT BRACES WERE VERY GOOD FOR MAINTAINING THE BACK AND THE SPINE SO AFTER ALL I DID THE RIGHT THING
I don’t know about the states ,but here in france pant suspenders have came back in fashion a great deal! for men and women !more and more people are wearing them ,and in all sorts of types too :clip on one’s with huge nickel clips,leather end one s with buttons aswell as th!ose thick leather one s! only yesterday i went to do mt weekly shopping in a big hypermarket and and i noticed that quite a few women were wearing with their jeans button on leather end one s and with a beret on their head s they really looked great !or other s were wearing a jean miniskirt with metalic buttons and leather end suspenders along too again with a beret A matter of fact wome are surpassing men nowadays in wearing suspenders !
I totally think that we should bring suspenders back into style!
yes! xxx
Think it should be brought back. Why don’t you show the elderly wearing them. I’m a woman of 73 & would like to wear one. Use to wear them when I was a Kid up till I had my first child.
They seem like an unnecessary accessory the wearer would have to keep fumbling with or adjusting. If they were really the main support for holding up the lower wear (trousers, skirts, and etc.) then I’d be uncomfortable knowing they would fall off the shoulders and possibly cause an embarrassment.
haha! so well put!!! couldn’t agree more with you. Thanks xoxo
Sure, its an unnecessary accessory, just like earrings, necklaces, various haircuts/styles, etc. It’s expression of self through style. Not about necessities. Otherwise clothes would just be a way to protect from the elements.
Ummm I like them :> But, I mean, these two last.
yeah… on others they look great. Some styles. Not for me though :) thanks xox
On men, I think the look can work well. Picture a white shirt, khaki pants, and solid black suspenders… just can’t figure out what shoes would go best with the look.
Great look! Maybe some of those summer shoes like boat shoes. And I agree, men pull off this look wayyyyy better than girls. Thanks xx