Expand the options for pasta-themed clothing beyond just the “spaghetti strap”: a new world of fashion awaits!

Background:

The “spaghetti strap” top (Figure 1) is a garment that is conceptually similar to a tank top, but with especially thin—one might even say “spaghetti-like”—shoulder straps.

Fig. 1: The thin straps for this garment have dimensions similar to the average spaghetti noodle (shown in top top right for comparison purposes).

The Issue:

Even though there have been hundreds of years of clothing development after the invention of pasta, there are shockingly no other widespread types of pasta-themed clothing. This is clearly an oversight.

Proposal:

There are dozens of types of pasta that can be adapted to the requirements of clothing. Figure 2 lists several obvious past-themed “rebrands” of existing shirts and shirt-adjacent tops.

Fig. 2: Along with the spaghetti strap, we have the rigatoni strap (a tube top, which is topologically isomorphic to a single rigatoni), a linguini strap (a standard tank top, renamed so that the name is more intuitive), and the “lasagna strap,” which is just a regular T-shirt (the shoulders being relatively wide, similar to lasagna).

The future is bright for pasta-themed garments:

There appear to be at least 30 kinds of uniquely-shaped pasta in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pasta, which means that fashion designers have many options for future pasta-themed clothing designs.

PROS: By using standard pasta-based terminology in both clothing and cooking, people will gain a greater awareness of both pasta and clothing shapes at the same time, rather than having to learn pasta-specific and clothing-specific jargon independently.

CONS: None!

Originally published 2025-10-13.