what is a bandeau top?

Question

and what is a tube top. i am totally confused- i've read an article an vogue, and now, i don't know the difference between these two tops.

Answer 1

Tube top is usually stretchy material and like it says is a "tube" in shape. You pull it on over your head and usually it covers your entire torso.

A bandeau top is also totally shoulderless/sleeveless but usually is not as long - ie: just worn around the breasts and is not necessarily stretchy etc.

Answer 2

* A bandeau soutien-gorge is a strapless top that circumnavigates the torso and covers both breasts. It may have a fastener at the front or the back, or be sufficiently elastic so as to have no fastener at all. The word is of French origin from the early 1700s and is a diminutive of a band; the plural is bandeaux. The term is also sometimes used to refer to a strapless maillot, as in maillot bandeau.
The wearer of a bandeau often reveals one or more types of cleavage.

When they are devoid of foundation, these Lycra-Spandex constructions are often called tube bandeaus, or tubes for short.

* A tube top (British: boob tube) is a shoulderless, sleeveless "tube" that wraps the torso (not reaching higher than the armpits). It is kept in place by elasticity. Such a top is generally very tight over the breasts.

A similar version is the halter top, which is a tube top that uses a single strap that passes round the back of the neck and has both ends attached to the front of the tube.

The garment has its origins in 1940s or 1950s America, and reached a high level of popularity in the late 1970s. It vanished from the scene during the early- and mid-1990s, but later made a major reappearance in the wardrobes of American teenage girls and young American women, especially college-age women, after 2000, and various versions of the revealing style have been popular ever since then.

Answer 3

A bandeau soutien-gorge is a strapless top that circumnavigates the torso and covers both breasts. It may have a fastener at the front or the back, or be sufficiently elastic so as to have no fastener at all. The word is of French origin from the early 1700s and is a diminutive of a band; the plural is bandeaux. The term is also sometimes used to refer to a strapless maillot, as in maillot bandeau.

The Tube Top
In fact, a knit or stretch-fabric "bustier" of sorts has been part of the casualwear costume since the 1960s. This variation of the species contains no foundation and no fastenings and is commonly called a tube top and typically it does contain more seams than a simple tube bandeau

Answer 4

I'm fairly certain they are the same thing. Every ten years or so old fashions come back into vogue and they give them new names. Doesn't 'bandeau top' sound more like haute couture than 'tube top'? Check out bell bottom jeans and bootcut jeans for instance.

A good idea would be to do a google image search on both and you can bet your bippy that you'll see the exact same thing over and over.

Answer 5

A bandeau top is shorter...it's usually a swimsuit top or bra that is like a tube top but just covers & supports the breasts. Some swimsuit tops have the fabric attached to a ring in the center and a string tied to that ring that ties around your neck to make a halter top.

A tube top is a sleeveless top that usually reaches your hips.

Answer 6

A bandeau top looks kind of like a scarf tied around your chest, tube tops are those stretchy little cylinders of lycra usually with elastic inserted into the top part.

Answer 7

What Is A Tube Top

Answer 8

http://www.venusedge.com/xq/asp/BRANCH.3~29~/qx/dept.htm

Answer 9

they're almost the same. both are strapless

Answer 10

I think they are the same.