News from High Street, for the Fashionistas among us! Couture only here please; if you can buy it off the rack, try another forum.
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by crfriend » Sun Jan 13, 2013 1:27 am
skirtyscot wrote:Boob tubes, WTF?
OK, that one had me (as a Yank, mind) for a moment. Here, "boob tubes" (aka "the glass teat") are [electronic] things that folks watch for enjoyment or stress-inducement. The "tube" bit is a throwback to the days of cathode-ray tubes.
It took me a moment to make the jump to apparel (and a recollection of the term from a book on
Dr. Who that I have on a shelf of mine).
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by couyalair » Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:37 am
I'm still in the dark here.
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by Sarongman » Sun Jan 13, 2013 11:09 am
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by Milfmog » Sun Jan 13, 2013 8:40 pm
To me a boob tube is neither of those...
...it is a single tube garment designed to cover the area from the top of the bust to somewhere below the bust. For example
the top in this (rather odd) outfit.
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by skirtyscot » Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:53 pm
Oops, sorry! I didn't realise that was a purely British expression. A piece of women's fashion from the eighties. Like Ian says. Not worn by men, I mean, why would you have a top that ended just there? But once they became popular, they were worn, rather pointlessly, be prepubescent girls as well as the older ones who had the necessary body parts to hold them up! A fine example of people wearing something because they are in fashion, not because they are suitable - reminds me of something - what was it now? No, it was on the tip of my tongue, but it's gone.
Boob tube = TV?
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???
You live and learn!
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by Stevie D » Mon Jan 14, 2013 12:20 am
skirtyscot wrote:
Boob tube = TV?
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You live and learn!
No, no no.... You've got it wrong. A television is a
Beeb tube, surely!

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by Sarongman » Mon Jan 14, 2013 2:26 am
Stevie D wrote:A television is a Beeb tube, surely!
In Australia, we have referred to a telly as a boob tube, possibly because anyone addicted to the thing is a bit of a booby! ( even though our ABC (aunty) gets a lot of it's material from the "beeb" back there in Pommyland.

As an example, someone whose entire conversation revolves around what is, or was on television is a bore to be fled from IMHO.
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