Keep your pants on...

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Is there some secret, I have not figured out yet, to keeping scrub pants from falling down? Some days I have to walk like I just got off a horse until I can privately retie my draw string - for the millionth time. They just keep getting loose. It drives me crazy. I wear Dickie's ultra stretch. They are soooo comfy, but they didn't solve this eternal question for me. It happens with ALL my scrub pants, except the one pair I had to rent during clinicals for the OR. Those. were. awesome. But, they don't sell them. Grrrr.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/urology.

Maybe try some pants with elastic around the waist.

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Don't know if this will solve the problem or not....

I'm a guy. I hate plumbers crack. I have certain shirts I wear under my scrub tops. They are my longer tees so I can tuck them into my pants. One day I grabbed a different tee shirt by accident. It was shorter than the shirts I typically wear. It didn't stay tucked, and my pants fell down a lot that day. Maybe it was a fluke, but I think it has to do with the friction between my pants and the tee shirt underneath. Either way, I have worn long tee shirts ever since and I never have problems with my pants falling down.

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Specializes in Neuro.

If you go into http://www.tafford.com they have scrub pants that have belt loops on them! They are a little high waisted but they definitely won't fall down they are quite comfy and true to size

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Specializes in retired LTC.

I don't want to be a fuddy duddy but my Dad used suspenders as long as I can remember. He had a tummy but was the skinniest from his hips & butt down. We could always buy him suspenders (the more fanciful the better he liked them, good sport he was).

They could be worn under your top.

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I had the same problem but I found pants with a elastic band on the back and draw string in the front! They never fall down!

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Cherokee workwear with drawstring in front and elastic back. It took almost 30pairs of trying on to find them and 3different sizes to find the brand and size. I went down a size and bought every color I could find.

Visit a uniform store and try everything on

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Specializes in ER.

Aviators has kind of like a belt built in and they work great. I have had great results with Jockey's scrubs and I finally found one place that sells my work's RN colors.

I was upset the other day. I ripped my drawstring out of a new pair of scrubs when I was making sure that I was tying them tight. I won't buy Buttersoft scrubs again even though they were comfy.

Jockey's stayed up around my hips and they are super soft. Aviators are stiffer but they feel like they will last a long time plus tons of pockets.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

You know when you learned to tie your shoes, you crossed the ties over each other and tightened them, then you made the loops? Skip the step of crossing the ties over each other -- just make the loops and then take the loops and loop them again. (Gee, I hope that made sense!) It keeps my scrub pants drawstring tight longer than anything else I've tried, although when I pack the pockets full of stuff I still have difficulty sometimes.

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You know when you learned to tie your shoes, you crossed the ties over each other and tightened them, then you made the loops? Skip the step of crossing the ties over each other -- just make the loops and then take the loops and loop them again. (Gee, I hope that made sense!) It keeps my scrub pants drawstring tight longer than anything else I've tried, although when I pack the pockets full of stuff I still have difficulty sometimes.

Ruby has great critical thinking!

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Omg that happens with my dickies ultra stretch too!!!!! But they're so soft that I love them anyway. I just keep hiking them up. Sometimes it helps if I wear a shirt under the top and then tuck that shirt into the pants. If the waistband sits on the shirt rather than my skin they seem to slip less.

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I hate when my pants fall down!!! This happens with my Cherokee elastic waist pants. Not sure the model number, but they're the basic cheap cargo pants. The tucked in shirt does help, but not completely. One other idea that seems to help: when I was pregnant, I wore Belly Bands to help keep my maternity pants on. They work kind of like a thick elastic belt, but soft. They're not super tight like a slimming band or girdle. They significantly reduce the amount of time I can go between tugging my pants up! I have found that Laundau pants with elastic waist, though not particularly stylish, seem to stay up a lot better than the Cherokee.

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