An embarrasing and serious query:

[Sally, la reina]

Am I supposed to put my arms through these clear rubber straps on this dress?

[RandomAnthony]

Take a picture. I can't decide.

[Sally, la reina]

Hm. Do you know where my camera cord is these days?

[janine]

Are they the only straps on the dress? Does the way they are attached to the dress suggest they will look good on shoulders?

[Sally, la reina]

Can straps be that blatantly suggestive?

[janine]

Are they long enough to fit on shoulders?

[Sally, la reina]

On? Or around?

[janine]

The way straps go around shoulders? Like so:

[janine]

[Sally, la reina]

[janine]

Yes, like that.

[Sally, la reina]

No, no. Do you see my inane plastic loop flailing ineffectually up top there?

[Jonathan]

The yellow fireman-style suspenders look good. Maybe you should try those--make a fashion statement.

[janine]

Very Alexander Wang.

[Suefly]

They may be there to hold the dress on to a hanger. That is, if they are sort of flimsy. If not, I'm wrong. I had same question the first time I ran into them.

[janine]

Sally wrote: "No, no. Do you see my inane plastic loop flailing ineffectually up top there?"

I think I see it. It's either supposed to help the dress stay on its hanger or serves no purpose at all, as is often the case in fashion.

[Helena]

I have those on a few of my tops- I always thought they were to help the garment stay on the hanger, but they always stick out. I just cut them off.

[Lori]

Yeah they are there for the hangers.

[AB]

They're for hangers, as others have said. If you don't hang up your clothes, you can just tear them off.

[Janice]

I have a gauzy top that has those plastic loops to keep them on the hanger. If they had sewn the loops to the edge of the seam they would be fine. I could tuck them out of the way. But no! They sewed them onto the edge of the neckline and it doesn't matter how much I tuck and try to twist them around my bra stap, they're always peeking out to see what's going on.