Tab Top Curtains

Traditionally, curtains are used with the main intentions of having improved privacy and to have a control on the incoming light. They also provide insulation to some extent. Curtains are available in a large variety of fabrics of different textures, colors, and designs.

There are different types of curtains, and each is suited for a different application. Some of the more popular styles of curtains are: sheer curtains, beaded curtains, hospital curtains and toilet curtains. Apart from the material and the design used for making curtains, it’s the hanging arrangement that gives the ultimate effect. This article is about another popular style of curtains known as tab top curtains.



Tab top curtains refer to the curtains that have pretty frills attached at the top. Now that you have known the style of these curtains, you would perhaps recall that this style has continued to be in and out of fashion a couple of times in the last one decade.

Fashioning of curtains, like any other fashion, keeps changing from time to time: that should remind you of bell-bottomed trousers and retro shirts that became all the craze at some point of time. At times the same style reappears within a couple of years but at tsometimes it may take a decade to reappear again. Unlike most other fashions that take long to reappear, tab top curtains have been in and out of fashion a bit more frequently, gaining popularity this year and vanishing from the scene the next year only to reappear the following year.

Tab top curtains have continued to reappear sooner than people can forget about them; they don’t fade away from memory of householders. Perhaps people find these a bit too flexible to remain a permanent feature of household décor.

One reason for their frequent reappearance or shall we say disappearance could be the different notions people have about tab top curtains. There is a category of people who think that the ruffles at the top make these curtains look a bit too untidy for their liking.
Yet, there are others who feel that ruffles help to bring in an element of lushness to an otherwise a dull curtain.

So, in a nutshell we may say that tab top curtains are somewhat interesting that prompts people to keep trying them repeatedly, yet householders don’t find them so thrilling as to have them a sort of long lasting feature of their homes.

Whatever be the exact reasons, tab top curtains seem to have seem kind of an unusual attraction that motivates people to patronize them, at times even against the current trends. That makes one good reason to try them out as they never seem to disappear altogether for long and it is not difficult to procure them, whatever be the latest fashion, for there is always some store or the other selling them at attractive prices.