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View Poll Results: What is your preferred bottom hem on cycling jerseys?

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  • No elastic at the waist/hem.

    153 64.02%
  • No elastic in the front, non-gathered exposed gripper elastic on the back.

    27 11.30%
  • Covered, light elastic all the way around for weight, but not gathered.

    41 17.15%
  • Covered elastic all the way around, gathered.

    5 2.09%
  • Exposed gripper elastic all the way around

    13 5.44%
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  1. #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robbin_G View Post
    I'm short waisted so any elastic somehow just rides up to my natural waist and then its all baggy and annoying. Maybe I've not worn any with gripper elastic but NEVER ever gathered!
    Me three!!! When I buy a man's jersey I need a large enough size to fit over my hips then the sleeves hit me at the elbows. The first thing I do is rip the elastic out and serge the bottom, then I surge all the way down the sides starting at the sleeves and ending at the waist which takes in a lot of the bulk and then I hem the bottom and the sleeves. It's a lot of work but when you are short wasted and curvy, what are you going to do? I try not to buy a jersey if they don't offer it in women's sizes but when you go to a ride like RAGBRAI or the Hilly Hundred, you want a jersey as a keepsake.
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    I am curvy, elastic just means the jersey creeps. I like bib so my tummy isn't exposed but the mesh of my bibs will be. When I can find it I prefer no elastic.
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    I'm short-waisted with a waist that's significantly narrower than my hips. While the cut has something to do with it, elastic tends to ride up. I can't wear men's jerseys without that happening. I've had slightly better luck with elastic-hemmed women's jerseys, but I haven't road-tested either of my elastic-waisted ones. (They don't migrate to my waist when I touch my toes, but we shall see.) I just got the Filigree Wheels jersey. I can't decide if I'm going to exchange it or relieve it of its elastic.
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    I know it is just the width of my screen, but I see this thread title as:
    What is your preferred bottom...
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    Quote Originally Posted by malkin View Post
    I know it is just the width of my screen, but I see this thread title as:
    What is your preferred bottom...
    It is good that I just swallowed my coffee before reading this,

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    Quote Originally Posted by malkin View Post
    I know it is just the width of my screen, but I see this thread title as:
    What is your preferred bottom...
    Same here...
    At least I don't leave slime trails.
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