Those Bands Men Used To Wear

[hc4361]

to hold their sleeves up - what are they called, please?

[Tilly2]

Sleeve garters?

[ChillDoubt]

Sleeve holders/Croupier's garters.

[Lie-in King]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/metal-arm-bands (?)

[ChillDoubt]

http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/400492735332?var=gv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&_lwgsi=y&;cbt=y&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&;ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=65&ff19=0

[hc4361]

Thanks all! I knew they weren't called arm bands.

[whiskeryron]

I beg to differ jc

http://www.tie-rack.co.uk/MEN_S/ACCESSORIES/T0961900100SV00U00

WR.

[hc4361]

I'm not Jesus, Ron :)

To me, armbands are worn over jacket/coat sleeves as a mark of affiliation or respect, such as the 'black arm band' worn by mourners.

[Prudie]

My dad used to wear those and I used to play with them, they didn't half hurt when you got armhair caught in them.

[hc4361]

Happy days, Prudie. My dad wore them too

[Zacs-Master]

I think they're quite fashionable again with the young city gents.

[hc4361]

Oh! I think they were first worn when shirt sleeves came in one length - long - and men used fountain pens.
So the sleeves appeared to the right length under a jacket and weren't covered in ink when writing.

[Clanad]

Apparently still available in the U.K. We haven't seen them here in the U.S. for years and then only on my grandfather on Sundays...

(See here: http://www.fogeyunlimited.co.uk/acatalog/Armbands_Sleeve_Garters.html#a11 )

[hc4361]

Oh my days. They are the really old fashioned ones, Clanad, just like my dad used to wear.
He also wore sock garters (suspenders) , even when he was wearing his shorts.

[sandyRoe]

Didn't snooker players wear them?

[Clanad]

My Dad had a groove worn in each of both calves from wearing garters, hc... was going to make me wear them until Mom stepped in...

His socks had absolutely elastic to hold them up. They were "Red Ball" socks (why do I remember that?) and were purchased by the dozen. Probably cost about $1.50 per 12 back in the day...

[Clanad]

"no elastic"...

[hc4361]

Yes indeed, the socks had no elastic in them. We kids had to make do with knotted elastic to hold our socks up - they made deep grooves in the legs, too.

Itched like billy ho when we took them off.

[EDDIE51]

I remember my Grandad wearing them and they WERE called armbands.
This must have been in the late 1950s , I am 63 next birthday and this was when grandad still worked down the coal mines in Durham, he wore them on Sunday with his suit when he was church warden.

[hc4361]

:) With a stud collar and cuffs for his shirt, Eddie?

[EDDIE51]

hc4361 Yes exactly that , we still had some collar studs in a box about 10 years back. Shirts then did not have buttons on the cuff , you had to have studs or leave the cuffs flapping.