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Anyone Know How to Make A Jockstrap?

Question:

It all depends on what sorts of elastic materials they have at the tailor’s supply.  Good luck! In article <3774DE13.7…@romanticartz.com>, romantica…@romanticartz.com wrote: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Thanks Timberwoof:  I appreciate the help!  Is there a particular kind > of cloth you use for the pouch?  I can find velvet, satin, cotton . . . > but nothing that really feels like a regular jock pouch.   > Timberwoof wrote: > > In article <3772E414….@romanticartz.com>, MYOJock > > <romantica…@romanticartz.com> wrote: > > > Has anyone ever made a jockstrap? > > > If so what did you make it from? > > Any place that sells fabric will also sell elastic. So get two or three > > yards of 3" wide elastic. With the right length, make a waistband: make it > > as long around as an existing jock that fits you. With a tape measure, get > > the length of a leg strap and the length of the pouch from the leg strap > > to the waistband. Add those lengths up and cut two lengths of elastic that > > length. > > Lay  the strips of elastic over each other at a right angle so that the > > leg strap length is free on two arms of the X. Sew the straps together > > along the square where they intersect. Now sew the other to arms of the X > > together at their common edge: that makes the pouch. Sew the pouch to the > > waistband, then the leg straps. > > Voila! A jock with really wide leg straps and hefty support. > > You could get fancy and buy wide and narrow elastic. Use the narrow for > > the leg straps and the wide for the waistband and pouch. > > — > > Timberwoof; mroeder<at>best<dot>com; http://www.best.com/~mroeder > > Ice Hockey QA Engineer (Goalie), 1998 BMW R1100GS rider, and > > not your ordinary noncomformist. "You may have the right to say that, > > but I will defend to the death my right to disagree."

– Timberwoof; mroeder<at>best<dot>com; http://www.best.com/~mroeder Ice Hockey QA Engineer (Goalie), 1998 BMW R1100GS rider, and not your ordinary noncomformist. "You may have the right to say that, but I will defend to the death my right to disagree."

Response:

Has anyone ever made a jockstrap? If so what did you make it from?

Response:

In article <3772E414….@romanticartz.com>, MYOJock <romantica…@romanticartz.com> wrote: > Has anyone ever made a jockstrap? > If so what did you make it from?

Any place that sells fabric will also sell elastic. So get two or three yards of 3" wide elastic. With the right length, make a waistband: make it as long around as an existing jock that fits you. With a tape measure, get the length of a leg strap and the length of the pouch from the leg strap to the waistband. Add those lengths up and cut two lengths of elastic that length. Lay  the strips of elastic over each other at a right angle so that the leg strap length is free on two arms of the X. Sew the straps together along the square where they intersect. Now sew the other to arms of the X together at their common edge: that makes the pouch. Sew the pouch to the waistband, then the leg straps. Voila! A jock with really wide leg straps and hefty support.   You could get fancy and buy wide and narrow elastic. Use the narrow for the leg straps and the wide for the waistband and pouch. — Timberwoof; mroeder<at>best<dot>com; http://www.best.com/~mroeder Ice Hockey QA Engineer (Goalie), 1998 BMW R1100GS rider, and not your ordinary noncomformist. "You may have the right to say that, but I will defend to the death my right to disagree."

Response:

Thanks Timberwoof:  I appreciate the help!  Is there a particular kind of cloth you use for the pouch?  I can find velvet, satin, cotton . . . but nothing that really feels like a regular jock pouch.   – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Timberwoof wrote: > In article <3772E414….@romanticartz.com>, MYOJock > <romantica…@romanticartz.com> wrote: > > Has anyone ever made a jockstrap? > > If so what did you make it from? > Any place that sells fabric will also sell elastic. So get two or three > yards of 3" wide elastic. With the right length, make a waistband: make it > as long around as an existing jock that fits you. With a tape measure, get > the length of a leg strap and the length of the pouch from the leg strap > to the waistband. Add those lengths up and cut two lengths of elastic that > length. > Lay  the strips of elastic over each other at a right angle so that the > leg strap length is free on two arms of the X. Sew the straps together > along the square where they intersect. Now sew the other to arms of the X > together at their common edge: that makes the pouch. Sew the pouch to the > waistband, then the leg straps. > Voila! A jock with really wide leg straps and hefty support. > You could get fancy and buy wide and narrow elastic. Use the narrow for > the leg straps and the wide for the waistband and pouch. > — > Timberwoof; mroeder<at>best<dot>com; http://www.best.com/~mroeder > Ice Hockey QA Engineer (Goalie), 1998 BMW R1100GS rider, and > not your ordinary noncomformist. "You may have the right to say that, > but I will defend to the death my right to disagree."

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