- So y'all know that iconic Marilyn Monroe photo
where her skirt is flying up?
- [Voice Offscreen] Aaah.
- But y'all don't see any of her goodies.
- That does not happen in real life.
- IRL that scenario would result in undercarriage exposure.
- [Voice Offscreen] Aah.
- Is there a way around that?
- Maybe.
- It's Ladylike and we're trying dress downs.
- [Offscreen Voice] Aah.
- I wear only dresses and skirts
and they fly up all of the time.
- The thing about skirts and dresses
is when you put one on,
they elevate your look a little bit.
For me it feels fancier than pants.
- There's probably countless people
who have seen my underwear
and/or butt cheek and/or vagina.
- When you're walking out
and you're feeling like a thousand bucks
and then the wind comes around and trolls you,
it is like not today, and your vag comes out,
it's just, it's a humbling experience y'all.
- When I wear dresses and skirts, just in case,
I try to wear underwear that has the most coverage.
Those aren't the days when I get cute
and do like a little thong or a little lace on the side.
Usually the days that I'm wearing a skirt or a dress
I'm like, yep, granny panty.
- So today, I know the product is called dress downs.
I don't know what it looks like or what shape it takes.
- How does this work again?
- Dress downs are little weights that you put
in the hem of your skirt and they keep your dress down.
- So that when wind does come it doesn't fly up.
- The one thing I worry about
is the weights messing with the hemline of the dress.
It's sort of the line of how things fall.
I think it might look like I have
two little things going boop.
- My worries are that
I'll feel weighed down when I'm walking.
I don't want to feel like I'm wearing more clothes
than I actually am.
- These dress downs may work but if they don't
it's because of man's own hubris.
We can't pretend to play God.
- So since this is a highly scientific experiment,
we need to bring in the fans before applying the dress downs
to see just how much my dress would fly up
without the dress down.
- Okay, wait, okay, so I didn't realize
this was gonna come from the bottom.
I thought the fan was just gonna be blowing at me
from the side.
- No.
- What?
- Wow we're really doing this.
Okay, let's do it.
Let's turn this baby on.
- Walking to the car.
(thunder)
(laughter)
- Yeah you're seeing them.
- Oh no, dropped my keys.
(thunder)
(scream)
- Stopping and admiring a rose.
- That was gusty.
- Dress downs.
Four garment weights.
- [Woman Offscreen] Self adhesive backing.
Is this gonna stay on the dress though?
- Does it stay on the dress?
I guess you remove it with each wash
but I'm wondering how long the adhesive stays sticky.
- Oh my gosh.
They look like the shoplifting things,
those shoplifting magnets.
- They have little dresses on them.
- Remove backing, press firmly to the inside hem
of clean, dry fabric.
I can't promise that this dress is clean.
- So it's inside the hem.
Do I put it along the line of the hem or up and down?
- Okay so we have two placed.
There's that.
I'm gonna put two more in the behind.
- See, this is what you have to watch out for.
Now it's bunching.
- This seems like a hassle.
Men have clothes that when the wind comes
they just stay put.
Women's clothes it's like, oh,
it's like a hot air balloon festival.
- Honestly I don't know if these are gonna work.
Now that I have them on it doesn't feel,
like I think I need a couple more weights.
- It does feel too light.
- Take two.
- It's kind of keeping it down.
- Ah, oh.
(buzzer)
(thunder) (buzzer)
- Like oh, like I'm walking up the stairs.
(ding)
- I'll do my steps.
I'm going down my steps.
I think marginally, right? (ding)
Like a little?
(thunder) (buzzer)
- Yeah let's try more.
- It's not bad.
Let's keep in mind, people, this is also an industrial fan.
- Oh yeah, I definitely need more
so I'm using Kristen's.
(thunder)
- It eventually (ding)
resolves itself.
(rain sounds)
- One two three four five six seven.
Yep, seven.
- I feel like the areas of my dress
that have the dress downs on them,
I feel the dress downs touching my legs.
So they're definitely working.
(ding)
They're just like uh, stay down, stay down.
(singing)
(ding)
- I feel windblown.
I feel tousled.
I feel dry.
- Okay, I think what we've learned here
is that you have to be really precise
about where you put these
because the wind will find a weak point.
- I don't know if four dress downs
for one garment is enough.
I'm wondering if six or eight may do the job better.
I think it all just depends on the day.
It depends on the material.
I think it depends on how windy it is outside.
- These aren't skirt anchors.
It doesn't hold it in place but it does keep it down,
which I guess is all you could ever ask for.
You still want your skirt to have some natural motion.
- I feel like maybe if I had a heavier dress,
like a sweater dress or something, it might work better.
- If the wind was more like how it was
in your typical outside springy day,
I actually can see how they would help.
They were trying.
They were trying really hard.
But when you have an industrial fan,
it's like, you can only expect marginal success
and so that's what we got.
- Dress downs.
- Lady tested.
- Lady blown away.
- Maybe I'm born with it.
Maybe it's dress downs.
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