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     MeAndTheBoys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 3707 Registered: 12-2004  |
So I'm walking over by the high school and end up walking behind three older boys on their way to the parking lot. One tall, skinny-••• boy is literally wearing his pants so the waist (and his belt) are just below his butt cheeks, as in underneath, as in wrapped around his upper thighs, as in extremely far south of any part of his body that resembles his waist (or his hips even), which also means the crotch of said pants was literally down by his KNEES, which means he was walking like a woman in a pencil skirt. I only saw him from the back, but if his entire ••• was hanging out (albiet covered by his plaid boxers--TMI) where was his penis in all this? Can somebody please explain this fashion trend to me. I don't think it's something I've ever seen in GQ. If you want people to see your boxers, why wear the damn pants at all? Who decided that it was cool to see your underwear in the first place? How in God's name are these pants defying gravity and actually staying up, rather than falling down around his ankles when he's walking? I so completely and totally DO NOT GET THIS. I can live with pants maybe hanging low on the waist and the waistband of your underwear is peeking out, but actually wearing the damn pants below your butt? It's totally mystifying to me. Am I just an old fart? God help any one of my boys if they want to walk out of the house looking like that. And what made it even worse, this boy had a cute booty, and he would have looked so much more attractive in pants that were actually on it! | ||
| Stevef Citizen Username: Stevef Post Number: 203 Registered: 5-2005  |
What you saw is known as a "damn fool." | ||
| MeAndTheBoys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 3708 Registered: 12-2004 |
I'd agree Steve, but they all do it! So does that mean they're all fools? | ||
| LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 1673 Registered: 10-2002  |
From what I understand, this pants down past your butt cheeks trend is also know as "jailin pants" -- as in when you go to jail, they remove your belt so you won't hang yourself or use it as a weapon. Hence, said pants fall down. So, I always think it's nice that young boys are modeling themselves after criminals - nice to see they've found a positive role model. Now, I don't think that any teenage boy would even know this - they just buy what they see other "cool" people their age wearing and I don't think they're making a statement that they want to go to jail, but it all seems a bit ridiculous to me. But, then again, I recall my parents being astounded at the fashion trends of my time too... | ||
| I'm Only Sleeping Citizen Username: Imonlysleeping Post Number: 166 Registered: 8-2005 |
There are all sorts of ridiculous fashion trends. Remember when people wore their clothes inside out? With the price tags still attached? Remember bellbottoms, fer crissakes? Who cares how people dress? If it makes them happy, good for them. As long as nothing was hanging out I don't see why this bothers you. And somehow I doubt the kid was interested in impressing you with his booty. P.S. Yes, you are an old fart.  | ||
| MeAndTheBoys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 3710 Registered: 12-2004 |
Wow, thanks, how nice. | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 7637 Registered: 5-2001  |
This trend has been around for the past (at least) 6-7 years. We used to tease my nephew by yanking down his jeans when he walked by (yes he wore boxers). It's a hip-hop style thing. I actually thought that it was on its way out. As for penile placement, I'm assuming that theirs are where they usually are. When I was in HS, the fad was for jeans to be so tight that we had to lay down to zip. And there were always the infamous "camel lips". My arguement with my mother was when I could pierce my ears, not my navel. I'll bet you can't wait to see what trend is popular when your boys are in HS, huh? | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 869 Registered: 7-2005  |
I wear my pants low..but never show the underwear... We don't ALL do it. SHHH. silly adults | ||
| Case Citizen Username: Case Post Number: 1522 Registered: 2-2005 |
They'll grow out of it. Either that, or they'll watch a little too much MTV and get the idea that 'pants make the gangsta' and get their heads blown off. I'm good either way, actually. | ||
| Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 262 Registered: 2-2006 |
I, for one, am thrilled with this fahion fad cause it has given me hours of entertainment. Meandtheboys - just do what I do and walk really close behind them. Do to the lowage of pant there is usually a half a foot of jean material dragging around their feet. Get right in step or wait till they stopped at an intersection...Step on it with one foot but put your weight on it, when the kid takes the next step it pull their pants down completely. Frankly I consider it my civic duty to help our youngster to go from half-as*ed cool to full-a*sed cool. It makes my walk to the subway so much more fun/. | ||
| MeAndTheBoys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 3712 Registered: 12-2004 |
"In my day" (now I'm freaking myself out, I can't believe I'm saying "in my day") it was a practical joke, a way to humiliate someone, to "pants" them. Now it seems to be a fashion trend. Greenetree, I too thought it was on it's way out, or maybe it was just wishful thinking. I really don't want to have to deal with that when mine are old enough! | ||
| sac Supporter Username: Sac Post Number: 3423 Registered: 5-2001 |
I think you can count on the fads to have changed by then. After all, this trend will be "so 2006" ... I wonder what they will come up with two or three or ten years down the road? | ||
| Rastro Citizen Username: Rastro Post Number: 3052 Registered: 5-2004  |
What was that really bad movie in the late 70s or early 80s, where someone accidentally came up with a jeans fad where their butt cheeks were exposed? | ||
| Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese Post Number: 1394 Registered: 7-2004  |
I think we should come up with something and begin the fad. Perhaps something like wearing PJs. Or maybe pink clothes with very very large hats. | ||
| Popo Citizen Username: Popo Post Number: 67 Registered: 1-2003 |
One might think the school dress code would prohibit exposed underwear (for both boys and girls). But it's so general as to be almost meaningless. http://www.somsd.k12.nj.us/se5000.pdf | ||
| Mr. Big Poppa Citizen Username: Big_poppa Post Number: 648 Registered: 7-2004  |
Greenie....."Camel Toes"....are you saying what I think you're saying!  | ||
| Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 267 Registered: 2-2006 |
Hey major...MEM has already started and may I say perfected the going out in PJ's thing... | ||
| Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese Post Number: 1397 Registered: 7-2004 |
That is why mem is my virtual wife. We think on the same wavelength. | ||
| Bob K Supporter Username: Bobk Post Number: 11476 Registered: 5-2001 |
Mem is a copycat. A few years ago it was a style at CHS to wear PJ bottoms to school. I believe this was a unisex trend btw. At least the boys wear boxers. The teenie bopper chickie bunnies with their super low rise jeans show their cracks and their, blush, pubic hair if they haven't. uhm, depiliated recently. | ||
| Hoops Citizen Username: Hoops Post Number: 1312 Registered: 10-2004  |
MeAnd - where was his penis in all this? Maybe he misplaced or left it home. Case - They'll grow out of it. Seems to me they are probably growing into it. It becomes even more ridiculous when the style on the basketball court is to let your shorts drop and show your boxers. I am constantly telling both my players and most everybody I see on the courts to pull their shorts up. | ||
| mooewe Citizen Username: Mooewe Post Number: 339 Registered: 6-2001 |
My favorite is the very-in-vogue bare midriff look among young women - many of whom really should NOT be doing this. I was walking down the street in Greenwich Village one day behind a lovely young thing who had not only a bare midriff, but was - inadvertantly, perhaps - revealing the very top part of her butt crack. It was hilarious. | ||
| Brett Citizen Username: Bmalibashksa Post Number: 2310 Registered: 7-2003 |
••• cleavage, gota love it | ||
| bettyd Citizen Username: Badjtdso Post Number: 224 Registered: 12-2005 |
Maybe he's prepping for his future career as a plumber, and was just wearing his "plumbin' pants." | ||
| Rick B Citizen Username: Ruck1977 Post Number: 1095 Registered: 8-2003  |
this thread should be moved to "Soapbox: Adult" | ||
| Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 271 Registered: 2-2006 |
Dear Bob K: You obviously don't know MEM...I ain't talking PJ bottoms.. I am talking PJ's (top and bottom), slippers, a bathrobe (blue with cows jumping over the moon) in a local restaurant and later a local bar. You gotta love that MEM... OOps mem hope you don't mind me telling this story? | ||
| K_soze Citizen Username: K_soze Post Number: 151 Registered: 11-2005  |
Lillb - You're right, the style was created in our prison systems. I always had a problem with guys "saggin" their pants too low. Nowadays women wear their pants/jeans low so their thongs show............I'm ok with that  My brother wears pajama bottoms out, I can't understand it. I know they're comfortable but walking around with penguins all over your pants is a bit weird. | ||
| Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 274 Registered: 2-2006 |
K_soze what's wrong with peguines... ? Personally I am more of a dark blue kind of gal .. you know imitading the evening sky.. and the shining stars in the sky Getting sleepy already | ||
| CLK Supporter Username: Clkelley Post Number: 2284 Registered: 6-2002 |
My niece started a PJ-bottom trend when she was in elementary school. She started wearing her PJ bottoms to school because they were comfortable, and my sister (being the coollest mom on the planet) figured "what harm"? and let her. Soon, all the kids were doing it. Then it hit the high schools. Then I started seeing it around here - I always figured it was all my niece's fault. Down near Philly this trend was accompanied by wearing very wild & obviously mis-matched socks. I'm sure the PJ bottom fashion around here came from some source other than my Philly-area niece, but isn't it weird how these things happen out of thin air and crop up at hte same time in multiple lcoations? i.e. not because some teeny-bop mag told them it's hip. Anyway when the kids STOP following really amazingly stupid fashion trends, it will be past time to prepare for the Apocalypse. | ||
| Andy Citizen Username: Mapleman Post Number: 649 Registered: 6-2004  |
Did you ever notice how kids are always wearing the kookiest clothes? They wear those baggy pants and the hats on backwards, and the really big tennis shoes. That's what we called all athletic shoes back in our day, tennis shoes. Or tennies. Nobody I knew played tennis though. Mostly mumbley-peg and ring-a-leevio, or stoopball. Stoopball. That's a game that you don't hear about much anymore. What a shame. But the kids today, they wear the crazy pants, and they talk funny too. They say things like "What up, dawg?" and "Fo shizzle!" They don't even have good slang anymore. Give me a vo-dee-o-do over a hundred fo shizzles any day. And don't get me started on the music. In my day we had true artists like Spike Jones and Teresa Brewer. To this day, I get misty when I think of Spike Jones's wonderful song "You Always Hurt the One You Love." What will kids today get misty over? Baby Got Back? Kids today. Please. | ||
| K_soze Citizen Username: K_soze Post Number: 154 Registered: 11-2005 |
I get misty over baby got back...........or at least when I see the video | ||
| Rastro Citizen Username: Rastro Post Number: 3054 Registered: 5-2004 |
Kids! I don't know what's wrong with these kids today! Kids! Who can understand anything they say? Kids! They a disobedient, disrespectful oafs! Noisy, crazy, dirty, lazy, loafers! While we're on the subject: Kids! You can talk and talk till your face is blue! Kids! But they still just do what they want to do! Why can't they be like we were, Perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids today? Kids! I've tried to raise him the best I could Kids! Kids! Laughing, singing, dancing, grinning, morons! And while we're on the subject! Kids! They are just impossible to control! Kids! With their awful clothes and their rock an' roll! Why can't they dance like we did What's wrong with Sammy Caine? What's the matter with kids today! Kids! I don't know what's wrong with these kids today! Kids! Who can understand anything they say? Kids! They are so ridiculous and immature! I don't see why anybody wants 'em! Just you wait and see Kids! Kids! They are just impossible to control! (Soon you'll be old enough to be) Kids! With their awful clothes and their rock an' roll! (Another teenage delinquent) Why can't they be like you were, Perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids to-- Kids! What the devil's wrong with these kids today? Kids! Who could guess the they would turn out that way! Why can't they be like we were, Perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids? What's the matter with kids? What's the matter with kids today? | ||
| slipknot (slippy) Citizen Username: Zotts Post Number: 283 Registered: 7-2004  |
That would be the movie So Fine with Ryan O'Neal. All those years of college are really paying off. | ||
| LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 1675 Registered: 10-2002 |
I remember wearing men's boxer shorts in high school. Girls wore them as shorts. I think I had a nifty pair that had old fashioned newspaper print fabric  . I don't understand why girls/women wear their pants/jeans ultra low these days. It doesn't matter how thin you are - it's NEVER a flattering look. Did you see the recent SNL skit when Lindsey Lohan was the guest - they did a fake ad for moisturizer for your "coin slot" which is apparently the term for the top of the butt crack on women when they wear the low hipster pants... | ||
| Case Citizen Username: Case Post Number: 1528 Registered: 2-2005 |
I disagree, Lil. I've seen some VERY flattering poses, in town and in the city. | ||
| Maplewoody Citizen Username: Maplewoody Post Number: 1184 Registered: 5-2001  |
Maybe they tuck a la Ru Paul! | ||
| K_soze Citizen Username: K_soze Post Number: 156 Registered: 11-2005 |
Not funny  Some people have been traumatized by these so called "tuckers" | ||
| cmontyburns Citizen Username: Cmontyburns Post Number: 1817 Registered: 12-2003  |
My new favorite quote from MOL: "Where was his penis in all this?" | ||
| sk8mom Citizen Username: Sk8mom Post Number: 443 Registered: 11-2003 |
Ironically, wearing pants with a low-hanging crotch will make it difficult to elude the police, hence the prison look may become a self-fulfilling prophecy. A public defender friend of mine made that observation to me, back in the day. | ||
| I'm Only Sleeping Citizen Username: Imonlysleeping Post Number: 167 Registered: 8-2005 |
Yeah, except the overwhelming majority of kids who wear baggy pants will never have any reason to elude the police. Just because some criminals dress like this doesn't mean everyone who dresses like this is a criminal. Far from it. It's just fashion! | ||
| Morrisa da Silva Citizen Username: Mod Post Number: 455 Registered: 12-2003 |
The low-rise jeans craze that so many girls are wearing (and adult women), many of whom shouldn't has created new terminology for the flesh that spills over the sides "Muffin Tops". I just love that. Coin Slot is not bad either. |
