Hold-Up Suspender Co.American made Holdup Black Ski-Ups X-back Suspenders with Patented black Gripper Clasps

Excellent comfortable durable ski suspenders, used them for my snowpants through out the ski season. No issues discovered after putting them in a washer machine. Highly recommended.

This is Hold-Ups most practical model for these reasons: These clasps do not damage dress fabrics, and punch no holes. They do not come off by themselves. The adjuster clips do not fray as velcro do, and they hold. The X- crossed design with two separate rear clips is more comfortable than the single design. The width is perfect--wider ones are also thicker and uncomfortable, and narrower fabric straps are too thin and wear out too fast. These should last a long time.Not as nice looking as the fancy fabric ones, though. These may not pass airport sensors due to the metal adjusters, but even the "no-buzz" sometimes fail. Either put up with a wand scan, or place them on the conveyor belt.Button style suspenders look ratty--they twist and fold the waistband. The style that clips to the belt is bulky and hard to use and looks strange. Regular clip ons continually fall off.

These work great. They clip on nice and tight and had no issues for my first season of snow boarding.

Update - Feb '18 - My husband was so jealous of my suspenders, that he wanted a pair of his own, so we now have 2 pair of these and are just as happy today as I was when I wrote this review over a year ago!Original Review:These suspenders are now a permanent part of my ski gear!This year is the first year I have skied with ski pants instead of bibs. I spent the whole first trip with the pants pulling them up and adjusting them every time I got off the ski lift, and doing that with bulky gloves is a difficult thing to do! Also during that trip, I took a pretty big fall and ended up with snow up my back and down my pants which had never had happen to me before with the bibs.I came home and decided I was going to just buy a pair of bibs, forget using pants (even though I had paid $170 for them on sale), and for anyone (women especially) that have ever searched for cute ski bibs, there's not a lot of quality options in anything other than black. When I did finally find a pair of bibs, they were $220 and wouldn't have my size in stock until after the ski season was over. I couldn't justify spending $220 on bibs when I had just spent $170 on pants, and they wouldn't have made it to me in time to use until 2018, so $220 for something I can't use for 10 months was a bit excessive!That's when I started searching for suspenders to get me through the rest of this ski season with my pants. I thought about going with the traditional metal clasps b/c that's all I knew existed until I came across these on Amazon. After reading through the description and some of the reviews I figured why not! It would be a heck of a lot cheaper to buy suspenders then to worry about getting bibs or dealing with another trip of constant adjusting (even a belt doesn't totally help).I took these out just a couple of weeks ago for a 2 day ski trip, and I now CANNOT live without them! I'm no longer worried about bibs as these worked perfect! Not once did I feel like my pants were sliding down my waist and they were simple enough to take on and off when I needed to use the restroom, or just take them off in the evening. They held firmly to my gore-tex pants, and didn't slip or damage them. It was such a nice feeling knowing I wouldn't have to spend anytime trying to adjust my pants back up from when I was sitting or when I fell.....and when I fell, there was no snow up my back or down my pants!!They were super easy to adjust and while folks in my group laughed at me at first when I told them I got suspenders, they were all just as impressed as I was with how great they worked! Even during my fall, they never faltered! They now have a permanent spot in my ski bag, and I'm no longer worried about getting bibs!I know this was a long review, but I thought if someone went through a similar situation or loves bibs but can't find any color or pattern in bibs they want, then get pants and get a pair of these!! LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!

I have worn Hold Up susphenders for seven years. The bid problem with suspenders in general is their ability to hold their grip. The old grips with the pin was okay but I found them easy to bend and thereby slipping of the pants. The new clamps do not have a slippage problem unless the fabric is really thin. Then slippage does occasionally occur. But for thicker fabrics like jeans, They hold extremely well. I have five different suspenders some wider and some narrower. I have settled on the narrower 1 1/2" as my preferred ones.