# "Careful, your slip is showing" Suggestive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 7, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106 "2014-01-07T03:55:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/41 "2014-01-11T19:48:44Z")
Growing up, it was used to put down another guy. “Watch it, Clarance. Your slip is showing”. Stop acting like a girl. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_York](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_York](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_York)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/42 "2014-01-12T12:17:12Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I have heard it, but only is a very smarmy way, like the person thinks it’s the funniest thing in the world. “Looks like your _slip_ is showing! Ha ha ha ha ha!” In the 50’s in the UK a mate of mine used to say this to girls just to embarrass them, one day a quick witted young girl responded with,“So is your fathers”, which cured him of that habit. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/43 "2014-01-13T20:26:44Z")
@ OP, do people ask you this when you are sitting spread eagled, knees at 10 and 2? I’m pretty sure it’s only sexual harassment if you are offended, you tell them that you are offended and they keep making same the remarks after you advised them not to. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/44 "2014-01-16T15:51:49Z")
> [@Cognoscant](#): > > I’d rather see a woman in a slip than in lingerie. But slips _are_ lingerie… ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/45 "2014-01-18T10:17:02Z")
\*there’s many a slip 'twixt dress and drawers \* going around my head now ---
**Author:** ![I\_ve\_noticed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cab0a1/32.png) [@I\_ve\_noticed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_ve_noticed)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/46 "2016-12-15T13:31:22Z")
🙂 I find women wearing a slip as being very sexy. Does anyone know why? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/47 "2016-12-15T13:43:25Z")
I find it weirdest that the OP references slips as being sexual harassment, but then uses the phrase to describe feelings, but still wants it to be under sexual harassment. Make up your mind! I always wear basketball shorts underneath my pants/shorts, and sometimes they bballs are longer than my shorts, so my mom would always call me out on it by saying “your slip is showing”. Actually, now that I think about it, this happened to me literally last weekend… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/48 "2016-12-15T16:16:58Z")
Look, a slip was supposed to be hidden. Sometimes it might drop down a bit, so it went below the hem of the skirt. “You’re slip is showing” is a neutral phrase indicating that the woman needed to adjust things. There never was anything sexual about it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/49 "2016-12-15T16:20:24Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > If you’re in a boat race, and you overtake someone else, is it okay to tell them their ship is slowing? And if they are using the boat to transport some cocktail ingredients, would you tell them their sloe is shipping? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/50 "2016-12-15T16:40:13Z")
Vintage 2014 zombie. Resurrected to say “I find women in slips sexy”. Anyone got a convenient stake? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/51 "2016-12-15T17:29:07Z")
> [@I\_ve\_noticed](#): > > 🙂 I find women wearing a slip as being very sexy. Does anyone know why? Well if you hang around for a decade posting on average 1.7 posts per day, we’ll eventually develop an understanding of your character and personal likes and dislikes. Maybe then we’ll be able to knowledgably speculate on why you think slips are sexy. Today, we got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106/52 "2016-12-16T01:47:17Z")
I haven’t heard that expression since the 1940s, when women wore dresses and beneath them, a slip that was of comparable length. It was considered a fashion faux pas for a woman to wear a slip that was long enough that the hem would be visible beneath the dress hemline. A woman might not be aware of it unless a well-meaning person pointed it out, like “You have soup on your tie”. Absolutely nothing more was meant by it, although the likes of Groucho Marx might very well have taken a liberty with such a remark in a less innocent context. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/careful-your-slip-is-showing-suggestive/678106.md?page=2)