Get a grip!

Rogue-Trooper

So, I have this jersey that I'm quite fond of. However, it lacks a silicone gripper on the hem so ends up around my armpits within minutes on the bike.

Has anyone ever retro-fitted silicone gripper elastic hems to a jersey and if so, was it successful? Also, anyone know where I might find silicone gripper elastic to purchase or know of an alterations place (city centre) that offers the service and has done it before?

If I could find the material I could get the mammy to throw it at the sewing machine (God bless old-school mammies and their infinite talents). I found a couple of places on-line that sell it by the yard and, while the cost of the hem was a couple of Euro, the shipping costs were astronomical so that doesn't make any sort of financial sense.

All advice appreciated!

thebouldwhacker

Seriously though go to lidl pick up a cheap anything with said grip, take it off and sew it on the one you want. Or take it to a seamstress. Or better go to the seamstress and ask if they have them in stock first.
gluck....

Rogue-Trooper

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Seriously though go to lidl pick up a cheap anything with said grip, take it off and sew it on the one you want. Or take it to a seamstress. Or better go to the seamstress and ask if they have them in stock first.
gluck....

I had looked at cannibalising a less-loved jersey but the over-enthusiastic stitching didn't really look like it was worth the effort. One of the girls in work suggested I buy a few pairs of cheap ladies hold-ups in Penneys and cut the gripper hems off them!

I had asked a couple of alterations places about it and they looked at me as if I had ten heads.

RV

Who's the manufacturer? Might suit my g/f for summer.

Chips Lovell

To be honest, if it's riding up under your armpits in minutes, then I think a gripper hem won't solve the problem. Sounds like the jersey is either the wrong size or wrong cut for your body shape.

Rogue-Trooper

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

To be honest, if it's riding up under your armpits in minutes, then I think a gripper hem won't solve the problem. Sounds like the jersey is either the wrong size or wrong cut for your body shape.

Ouch!

Ok, I may have exaggerated slightly when I said it ends up under my armpits but the bottom of it does ride up annoyingly. It is cut quite high at the front so from a design perspective that doesn't help but it fits me perfectly when I'm not moving around. It's just that there is nothing to keep it 'in place' so to speak.

For that reason I was willing to try adding the grippers to see if that helps before I give in to the cold reality that it just doesn't fit me.......

In the meantime, while I wait to see if anyone has any inspiration on where to buy a length of the elastic, this will be me in my denial:

Lumen

OK, right then.

So I've tried "tit tape" before, generously donated by a female boardsie after I was moaning about the lines of my outfit.

It worked OK for one day, but proved difficult/messy to remove after washing.

That's all I have.

Lusk_Doyle

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