Who invented the tube top?

Answer 1

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A blue tube top.

Woman in a more formally-laced tube top.

A tube top (British: boob tube) for women, is a shoulderless, sleeveless "tube" that wraps the upper torso. Such a top is generally very tight over the breasts in order to prevent the garment from falling. This is usually achieved with elastic bands at the top and bottom of the garment.

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

The garment was invented by American World War II veteran Murray Kleid, owner of S & M Fringing Inc. (named for Sol Makowsky & Murray Kleid) located at 50th West 17th Street in NYC. At the time, S & M Fringing was the largest women's accessories manufacturer throughout New York City's garment district with three floors of his company dedicated to the manufacturing of these and other garments and accessories.

The first tube top was actually a "mistake", but 'samples" of this "new garment" were immediately being dispersed to local distributors. Its positive reaction had them on shelves worldwide within months.

Though 1st created in the 1960s, it reached its highest 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 style have been popular ever since then.