spaghetti strap

noun

1. a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spaghetti strap¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

The video shows the woman in a spaghetti strap top and very short shorts strolling outside a mall in central Singapore.

From New York Times

She says she felt uncomfortable during their joint appearance on “The Arsenio Hall Show,” when he tried to pull down her spaghetti strap.

From Washington Post

Sheriff’s officials said the baby girl was last seen wearing a spaghetti strap pink dress with white poke-a-dots and pink shoes with a unicorn face on them.

From Washington Times

"I didn't see it but I was told it was a spaghetti strap dress. My fiancée likes this stuff. Anyways my sister saw it and went nuts she started criticizing her choice and said that she should've gotten a high nick or a jewel wedding dress to cover up the scar. She argued with my fiancée about it."

From Fox News

The spaghetti strap sundress she wears for an afternoon bike ride and an ice-cream in an Italian piazza is surely the most delicious ballerina-length black dress since the bare-shouldered satin cocktail dress with the bateau-neckline and the bow-tied shoulders Hubert de Givenchy made for Audrey Hepburn in the film Sabrina in 1954.

From The Guardian