Bloody loops of ribbon on items of clothing

[ValerieCupcake]

Anyone else hate them? Anyone else use them? I never have, I think they're pointless and annoying and I cut them off every time. Serve no purpose.

Yes, I hate them too.

I cut them off and keep them to attach gift labels to presents 🎁

The ones they put in to help hang it up? I find them handy for some items.

Of course you snip them out. They're mainly to keep garments in place during transportation and display in shops, although I have had a couple of slippy tops/dresses that I've kept them in.

I often keep them in my sewing box and I have used quite a few over the years, putting them on fancy dress costumes or to make hanging loops on things like towels.

Yeah they’re not really for you they’re for the shop. It’s annoying if you forget to cut them out I agree.

It's also to help take the strain off of dresses etc and help them keep their shape. If you hang a heavy dress off some tiny shoulder straps it helps to have the ribbons for hanging too.

I cut them off straight away, I hate when you can see them hanging out of clothes that people are wearing.

I sometimes keep them on if the dress has a wide neck

I had a colleague that would always run over and try and tuck some in on my wide necked cat top. She just didn't get I couldn't give a damn

Making hanging loops on towels - brilliant idea. I need some loops for my face cloths (which DH & DD always manage to knock off the hook in the shower).

I like them for fidgeting with as a change from rubbing at my chin whiskers.

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I usually snip them out! But save them for crafts, handy to make Xmas decs with or to zips which are at the back of a dress. But depends on the item on question. If the material is slippy so doesn't stay on the hanger I keep them on so that I can tie round coat hanger

They seem to be longer than ever. I've just bought two cheapo t shorts from Sainsbury's, the loops are so big I could fit my head through them

I hate them
On some of my dresses I end up putting my arm through the loop when putting it on and getting into a right tangle.

Better than plastic.

I put them in my ribbon box for my DC and take some into school for infant classes.

better than the big elastic bands that yoy sometimes get in sports clothing (why?)
strangulation risk and itchy when sweaty. and if you cut it off you are left with a scratchy raised bit.

the thin ones are perfect to tie tomato vines to it's support.

I use them when hanging the clothes up to help them stay on the hanger and keep their shape.

Love that this thread has turned into uses for them. I use them to secure the ends of my plaits.

@EatSleepReplete the ikea face clothes have different coloured loops on. Think they come in packs of 5 or 10, it's been a while since the toddler years.

I'd use one colour for hands and face...and so on!

I keep them if they're a nice colour and put them in the sewing box, otherwise snipped off and in the bin they go.

I kept them on one top to stop it slipping off the hanger.

If the garment has a wide neck, I wind them round my bra shoulder straps to stop the top sliping sideways off my shoulder

I keep them on things like cardigans that don't have any buttons or wide-necked dresses/tops, to keep them on the hanger when I actually hang them up but otherwise cut them. I keep them too for crafts!

I used to cut them off before I realised how useful they were.

I have one top which doesn't fit onto a coat hanger as the neck is too wide and I only realised this after I had cut one ribbon off! Now it wont hang properly 😩