BS: Lo-slung jeans.

Subject: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Acorn4
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 04:50 PM

I'm always amused by the current fashion at the moment for "yoof" to wear jeans with the crotch around their knees and an expanse of underpants on view.

Walking through Leicester the other day, I saw a teenager with one arm around his girlfriend and the other holding up his jeans - what do you do if you want to send a text?

Today I saw another with the arse of the jeans literally down to the knees and the whole of the undercarriage on view.

The landlord of our local pub runs a quiz, and the other night noticed a young man on his way out of the pub. Using the mike he said in front of the whole pub:-

"Hay mate, your trousers are falling down and your underpants are showing1"

Is this the daftest youth fashion ever?

We'll perhaps get a bit of seasonal mirth out of this thread!

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: CarolC
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:13 PM

On the upside, they're wearing really great underwear now. I've been seeing lots of plaid.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:21 PM

Sagging's probably not a good idea for us old hippies who haven't worn underwear since 1967.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:22 PM

But why not dispense with the jeans?

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:24 PM

By the way, "sagging" is what the young folks call the low slung fashion thing. It was not meant to imply that anything on me sags.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Alice
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:24 PM

Maybe they should dress for success like this guy.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Maryrrf
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:47 PM

I have to agree I think it's one of the most unattractive and ridiculous fashion fads I can recall in my lifetime. It looks like it would be extremely uncomfortable and annoying - to always feel like your pants were falling down.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Alice
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:48 PM

Police say it slows down the criminals who try to run with pants around their knees.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:54 PM

Imagine if a court were to sentence someone to dress like that?

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:56 PM

But how can it be fashionable? They were doing that 20 years ago and haven't stopped since. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 06:06 PM

I saw one the other day, his pants were so low slung he was walking like a duck, do they realise how daft they look ?

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:13 PM

I have wanted to ask them two questions:

Would you like James Bond to wear pants like that?

And

When you pee, do you pee over the top or do you pull the pants up so you can open the zipper?

hahahhahah

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:28 PM

I fail to see what the problem is.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:35 PM

OK, now I do.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:43 PM

Welcome to my world............................

My son Michael is into the "skin tight/don't cover his ass" jeans. He would wear a 34-32 but instead buys women's size 10 stretch jeans. He looks totally fuckin' ridiculous but oh yeah, he's cool..........Add the 1 inch gauge hole in his ear, a couple of lip rings and two sets of "snake bites" PLUS a nose septum ring and the everchanging hair color...........and the dumbass wonders why he can't get a job!

The entertainment value in watching him put his pants on is worth it, BTW....He wears boxers.........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:45 PM

LOLOLOL

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: olddude
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:48 PM

Oh heck, just dig out the woodstock film and have a look at what we wore, or those poly big collar disco shirts in the 70's... yuk .. but usually our unders were covered

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:55 PM

I didn't think they wore anything at Woodstock!

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Acorn4
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 07:58 PM

I suppose loon pants were pretty ridiculous but I don't think they're really on a par with the saggies!

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 08:00 PM

The "baggy look" started in the hoods; for years cops have known that bangers could carry a 9 or something without it being obvious if the pants were baggy enough. It's easy enough to get a baggy look if the pants are several sizes too big, and then they slide down.... It's a hip-hop gangsta thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 08:00 PM

Not much, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 08:13 PM

Hey folks... With the exception of oldster, which we would expect this from, ya'll sound like yer own grandparents... No, I don't get it either but my folks never got 90% of the crap I wore when I was a teenager... I mean, things could get worse and we'd all be lookin' back as these times when there was a little sense in fashion...

Don't ask me how that could happen but it could and very well may...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: olddude
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 08:20 PM

Remember Dr. Hook, "I got a freaky old lady name a cocaine Katie that embroiders on my jeans"   Those bells we wore with everything on them from peace signs to geetars ... Oh yea, mine were all ripped from steppin on the cuffs with me cowboy boots.

Subject: Lyr Add: I'M MY OWN GRANDPAW (D Latham/M Jaffe)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 08:27 PM

I keeping with Bobert's remark, here ya go.



Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be
This widow had a grownup daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her, and soon they too were wed

This made my Dad my son-in-law and really changed my life
For now my daughter was my mother, 'cause she was my father's wife
And to complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grownup daughter, who was of course my stepmother

Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue
Because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
'Cause now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa

I'm my own grandpa,
I'm my own grandpa,
It sounds funny, I know
But it really is so
I'm my own grandpa

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 10:12 PM

Okay, I'll grant that fashions have done some weird stuff before, but I think there's a fundamental difference when it comes the sagging thing.

Tie-dyed bell-bottoms with jingle-bells on them may be outwardly weird, but when you get right down to it, the difference between them and a pair of Brooks Brothers trousers is strictly window dressing. They both perform the same basic function; they cover the parts of your body that society has decided you can't just walk around lettin' hang out.

But saggy jeans are intentionally designed to expose, not hide, those parts. As such, they no longer really serve the function of pants at all. They've ceded that function to the underwear over which they are worn. The jeans have taken on the function of being something to carry your Glock and cell phone in. Why not just do away with the jeans all together, wear the underwear to cover your ass and dick, and carry a big shapeless tote bag around to keep your Glock and cell phone in? It'd be more comfortable and you wouldn't have to stop every few steps to pull your pants up.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: CarolC
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 02:54 AM

Some of them wear underwear under their underwear under their jeans. I saw a picture of someone wearing long underwear under their underwear and jeans also, but those jeans had big holes in the ass which is where the long johns and underwear were showing.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Will Fly
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 04:08 AM

My son used to wear his jeans with a low-slung rake. When I asked him where the fashion originated from, he said it was probably "prison chic" - following the style of prisoners on state farms in the US who had to wear baggy trousers to prevent them from making a break. Whether this is true or not, I don't know, but this is the word from one who did. He doesn't now - for some reason, a job, mortgage, wife, 2 young sons, car and responsibilities have raised his jeans to waist level...

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Darowyn
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 04:53 AM

I can't remember who it was, but I heard a comedian say,
"I know why all these hip-hop kids and rappers are so angry all the time. I'd be angry if my trousers kept falling off!"
used to tell my students- both the saggy ones and the ones with mid-calf shorts- "Your children are going to be rolling on the floor, splitting their sides laughing, when they see what you used to wear!"
Then there was the one wearing the woolly ski hat pulled down over his ears on a hot June day in the in the studios. He was complaining that he could get enough volume on his headphones (he had them on over the hat) Sweat was running down his face as he played the drums. But he would not take the hat off, because it was "cool"!
Young people are supposed to be foolish.
Older ones are supposed to subject them to ruthless mockery.
That's what's called education, and the growth of independence.
Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Micca
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 07:05 AM

A colleague earlier this year referred to this "low slung " style as "Full Nappy (Diaper)" style to the horror of many of his students!! the latest fashion at the college where I work (here in London) is to top off this ensemble with one of those hats with fur earflaps, Now I defy ANYONE to look Good, Cool, of anything except a joke in one of these!! Burns put it very succinctly with "Would some pow'r the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us"

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: gnomad
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 07:10 AM

I just don't get why anyone would wear something manifestly uncomfortable, and which obstructs your moving about.

Mind you yesterday I saw one get his comeuppance. This particular yoof wears his waistband just about where his arsehole must be, and as the garment is pretty much without form and void he is forced to walk like a diminutive John Wayne (or as though he has crapped himself) just to keep things up at all. Yesterday this peculiar gait combined with the icy conditions led to his coming close to doing the splits, and having to look decidedly uncool as he snatched at a passerby for support. I looked away.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Rasener
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 08:03 AM

I bet they wouldn't dress like that, If a queen bee decided it was time to set up nest in their orifice.

Mind you I suppose they don't look any dafter than this - do they?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolinespics/2560663395/

or this

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle-fashion/stylenews/socks-5289.html

I'll get me coat

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 09:02 AM

Hey, ya'll... Remember those Beatle boots??? Not only were they uncomfortablr but I'm sure that many folks have had to have surgeries to correct foot problems that they caused...

Then there were the black slacks that had to be so tight that they were like cheap hotel: no ballroom... And if that wasn't enough, ya' had to take a razor to the seems at the bottom and remove about an inch of stitching so you'd have this slit so folks could see yer white socks...

I mean, I don't give a rat's ass if kids wanta show theirs... Who is is hurtin'??? No one, that's who... If they are happy and doin' their chores and homework and ain't robbin' ol' ladies then I say, "Let it all hang out, ya'll"... Especially the cute womenz with the nice posteriors... I mean, we go to the beach in the summer and see alot more than we're seein' from today's kid's fashions... Right???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: olddude
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 10:09 AM

Ever see that video of the young Elvis in all black leather pants and shirt and Jacket unplugged singing to the people sitting all around that small stage. On one interview Elvis said the leather pants were so tight he couldn't bend over and the lights made him "sweat like a pig from the heat". But they told him it was sexy and cool ... I suppose I am use to kids wearing all kinds of crazy stuff. When I was a professor they would have shaved heads or safety pin ear rings ... purple hair ... but were great kids .. by the time they were ready to graduate they looked like they should be in Forbes magazine all business like with their resumes job hunting ... If they hurt no one .. let them have fun and hold their pants up as they walk ... who cares

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 10:37 AM

the style of prisoners on state farms in the US who had to wear baggy trousers to prevent them from making a break.

But I can't imagine real cons would be likely to wear them like that when they got out. A fashion that, at one and the same time, stops you being able to run when you need to, and indicates that, as a villain, you are a total loser, who gets caught and banged up. "Look at me,I'm pathetic"...

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 11:27 AM

I just don't get why anyone would wear something manifestly uncomfortable, and which obstructs your moving about.

You mean like high heels and platform shoes and (OH THE HUMANITY!) pantihose?


Prison chic, I was told, came from the fact that prisoners could not wear belts and their pants sagged.

Somewhere I have a picture of my dad at about age 30 in a zoot suit with a big hat. It never failed to reduce us all to tears of laughter. But he was considered quite a handsome and dapper young man.

A lady at work insists on wearing hip huggers one size too small. Fine, except her desk faces away from the entrance and you can pretty much count on encountering a "full moon" when you walk in. Too old and too zoftic to be attractive. I don't get it.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: gnomad
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 11:45 AM

Well, Sins, as you mention them, yes I would include all those (though I am given to understand that pantihose have their fans, as being more comfortable than stockings) and would add starched collars, ties (neckties?) and the majority of corsetry to the list.

I confess that I have never been accused of being a fashionable dresser, so perhaps my mindset is wrong or something. I can appreciate an attractive appearance, and even attempt to present one occasionally, but I.M.O. clothes need to be comfortable and practical first, last, and all points in between.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: olddude
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 11:51 AM

All good points, reminds me of the actress that said "too bad youth is wasted on the young"   they all have to get to the certain age before figuring out comfort is a good thing and cool is not LOL ... but we all been there. I am used to hearing my wife say "you are not going out looking like that are you?" LOL ... my response is always, it is comfortable ... I always end up changing ...

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: olddude
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 11:55 AM

One fad that bothers me a bit is the "InK"   young folks I think haven't figured out that this fad is forever. Very hard, painful and almost impossible to get rid of when the 19 year old hits 40. I suspect many will regret it far more than the baggie jeans.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 12:28 PM

Methinks I should buy some stock in Crack Spackle.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 01:31 PM

I just wish I had the young, hot bottom to go with the low slung jeans! ;0)

Actually, I think the boys look kinda cute in those 'where has my crotch gone!?" jeans, as they remind me of a little toddler who's just filled his nappy...and has adopted the John Wayne walk to try and find a comfy way round things...

Mini skirts! Come on, girls..own up.

I used to wander round in a tennis skirt.....but I never played tennis!

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 02:10 PM

999.......just for you.


a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXU-ZdmzNmo&feature=fvw">I'm My Own Grandpa - Youtube

:0)

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: PHJim
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 02:33 PM

The top ten list of things you'll never hear a rap artist say:

10- "Do these pants come in a smaller size?"
9- "Damn, my gotchies are showing!"
8-

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 04:23 PM

I have to agree I think it's one of the most unattractive and ridiculous fashion fads I can recall in my lifetime. It looks like it would be extremely uncomfortable and annoying - to always feel like your pants were falling down.

Possibly, but hardly quite as hideous as the leggings fad on women and girls.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 06:45 PM

Whether its hideous and unattractive isn't the point - all kinds of fashions are both those. But a fashion that makes it impossible to move without waddling clumsily down the street...

Still, I suppose girls have been doing do that for years with high heels.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Acorn4
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 10:38 AM

This thread is descending like the jeans and will soon be below crotch level and down to below knee level, so I thought it needed refreshing before undue embarrassment is caused.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 11:18 AM

I have worn my jeans like that since I aquired my beer belly - They won't go up any further.

Builder's bum anyone..?

:D (eG)

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Acorn4
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 12:17 PM

It's amazing how trousers can defy gravity, isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 07:16 PM

Can't be long before the fashion is for them to be wearing their waists at chest level. Which will at least be a lot less crippling.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Joe_F
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 08:12 PM

Back in the 1930s, Elizabeth Hawes, a fashion designer, proposed sensible clothing for men. When men made fun of women's fashions, she pointed out that no-one was forcing respectable men to wear 10 layers of cloth around their necks on summer days. There is no end to the foolishness of this world.

One might mention, for the sake of balance, the uniformly tight jeans women are impelled to wear these days, at least in my corner of the world (New England). I have no quarrel whatever with women showing off their asses, but it has reached the point where I find it refreshing to see (1) a woman in a dress or (2) a man showing off his ass.

Subject: RE: BS: Lo-slung jeans.
From: Acorn4
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 04:12 AM

The high waisted trousers might make a comeback, it's true - you see a lot of them in those old black and white films made in the forties and early fifties.