[Ruby]

What is with the baggy pants trend? Some kid just walked into my work with his jeans sagging as low as MID-THIGH. How does he walk? Do these kids think it actually looks cool? It just looks like the have a long torso.

Jeez, I was almost expecting to see them fall or something.

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[plaidpjs]

Originally posted by Ruby:
What is with the baggy pants trend? Some kid just walked into my work with his jeans sagging as low as MID-THIGH. How does he walk? Do these kids think it actually looks cool? It just looks like the have a long torso.

Jeez, I was almost expecting to see them fall or something.

Of course they think it looks cool, otherwise it wouldn't have become a fashion trend. What amazes me about the whol thing is that they still perceive the handyman with butt-crack showing as being a goof, when more than likely they look just about the same when they turn around... hehe

[willed]

In my day we had sensible fashions...mumble mumble mumble... them were the days. Wouldn's have caught ME walking around in trousers you could go camping in... Did I tell you about the war?

[etphonehome]

My friend's dad is a lawyer, and he calls that type of pants "probable cause pants."

I like to wear baggy pants myself, but not that baggy. I wear baggier pants because they're more comfortable than tight pants. However, I think that people who "sag" their pants look really stupid, and that they should get themselves either a belt or smaller pants.

[davesimondotcom]

Originally posted by Ruby:
What is with the baggy pants trend? Some kid just walked into my work with his jeans sagging as low as MID-THIGH. How does he walk? Do these kids think it actually looks cool? It just looks like the have a long torso.

Jeez, I was almost expecting to see them fall or something.

Look at it this way, then there is no mystery to the question:

Boxers or Briefs?




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[MikeM32]

Yeah I hate that look myself. I can understand a comfortably loose pair of jeans but that whole trend is silly.

I like to refer to it as the "I just crapped my pants" look

I guess things could be worse and we could be back in the 80's Heavy Metal era where people wore spandex pants and had big hair

Mike

[ironknee]

in my days, i had to walk 10 miles, uphill both ways, to get pants...

and they fit snuggly damn it....kids these days...

where the hell are my pants?


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[gorgonzola]

Originally posted by ironknee:
in my days, i had to walk 10 miles, uphill both ways, to get pants...

and they fit snuggly damn it....kids these days...

where the hell are my pants?

Ah!! Oh, so, so hilarious!

Why did you have to walk uphill to get pants?

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[Scott_H]

Originally posted by etphonehome:
My friend's dad is a lawyer, and he calls that type of pants "probable cause pants."

That's funny. LOL.

[Demonhood]

Originally posted by gorgonzola:
Why did you have to walk uphill to get pants?

because that's where the pants trees grow of course. and you'd have to take what you could get.

pants with only one leg.
pants with no pockets.
pants with giant holes in the rear.
pants with ants living in them.

we certainly wouldn't have these fancy chains or button-fly that the kids get nowadays. darn whippersnappers with their GAP stores and knee-high pants.


[This message has been edited by Demonhood (edited 05-31-2001).]

[ironknee]

eh???? speak up young man...

we had to walk because we didnt have these new fangled trains.....we walked uphill 30 miles to a a tree called The Tree of Pants.

It was run by this giant 10 stories tall as i am alive...he made my pants too long...god nabbit...then we had to walk uphill back home...

sometimes we would make it home to use the pants to wear...around....before we had to return them.

These kids now are wearing what looks like 2 pairs of pants...at once...where am i?

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[Arty50]

This reminds me of another trend at one time: shants. They're either sagging shorts, really long shorts, or really short pants. The basic qualifier is that they must end roughly halfway between the foot and the knee. Not quite shorts and not quite pants, hence shants.

[ironknee]

they make pants below the knees?

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[fobside]

i will say that sagging your pants is really comfortable. you should try it. in fact, im ordering everyone to try it! hahaha jk. but really...its comfortable to wear your pants halfway down your butt. i dont know how people wear their pants around their thighs. some people do that tho. but remember...function over form. if its inhibiting the way you walk or do other things, pull em up!

[l'ignorante]

Originally posted by Ruby:
What is with the baggy pants trend? Some kid just walked into my work with his jeans sagging as low as MID-THIGH. How does he walk? Do these kids think it actually looks cool? It just looks like the have a long torso.

Jeez, I was almost expecting to see them fall or something.

It's actually already out of style, I'm surprised they still wear those. It started around 1995. Now you see the seventies -retro-look pants. With the brown suede jackets we only have to wait for the Ray Bans and the streets are filled with Starskies and Hutches again.

[fobside]

Originally posted by l'ignorante:
It's actually already out of style, I'm surprised they still wear those. It started around 1995. Now you see the seventies -retro-look pants. With the brown suede jackets we only have to wait for the Ray Bans and the streets are filled with Starskies and Hutches again.

theres no such thing as a style thats in or out in my opinion. it depends who you hang out with that sets a style. skaters tend to wear baggy pants as do thugs or wannabe thugs.

[l'ignorante]

Originally posted by fobside:
theres no such thing as a style thats in or out in my opinion. it depends who you hang out with that sets a style. skaters tend to wear baggy pants as do thugs or wannabe thugs.

I believe you. The baggy pants have been around for a while and I suppose I don't hang out in that scene ( nor any other). I drive past a huge college everyday and see more and more 70-ties outfits.
So I thought, hey that must be the new style. For myself, I still wear the same T-shirt and jeans as 25 years ago ( well, they look the same anyway)

[Doc Juansinn]

Greetings,
As much as some of us (myself included) wish this "style" would dry up and blow away in the wind, we may all realize its practicality some day. It doesn't look too good to wear tight 501s while wearing Depends underneath.

[haunebu]

Originally posted by l'ignorante:
It's actually already out of style, I'm surprised they still wear those. It started around 1995.

No way Jose. That started in 1991 to be exact. It was initially started by the skate scene (check out Plan B's early '90s vids like the Questionable Video for the earliest verifiable record).

Black gangsters at the time were sporting Dickies that they'd sag down around their butt, and gradually adopted the same baggy pants theme that skaters did - though never to such a ridiculous degree.

I had about three pair of 55" waist jeans that I got at the local Sears outlet when I was 15.

Kids today that wear that goofy crap, thinking they're the biggidy bomb, just amaze me with their stupidity. Followers, all of them...

Nowadays we've got 15 year-old kids wearing that stuff while thinking they're somehow innovative, pushing against the grain, showin' them old fogies what's up. Nope. These days the kids who resist that ugliness are way cooler. They're the ones who can Think Different.

[This message has been edited by haunebu (edited 06-01-2001).]

[shmerek]

The baggy pants don't bug me as much as when they wear them really low. My old roommate used to wear his pants covering half his butt with a belt cinched tight so they wouldn't fall down. Freaking retarded, you can't walk with as much freedom, you have to cut the circulation off to your ass in order to keep your pants up, and everyone gets the pleasure of seeing your gonch nice.

[maxelson]

Wait. You know how fashions actually kind of come out of something? Culture or event? Like David Bowie doing the androgynous thing kind of sparked up the cross dress style. I can usually point to some event or cause for a particular fashion. WHere in the hell did the huge ass baggy pants belted around the calves thing originate? I'd like to think that David Byrne started that one on the Stop Making Sense tour, but I seriously doubt it. Where did it come from? A friend said it had something to do with prisons or some such. Anyone really know? I'm truly curious.

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[jholmes]

Having lived through the fashions(?) of the seventies once, I actually don't mind the baggy jeans, compared to a tight lime green polyester leisure suit.

[ironknee]

Im just glad mosy girls dont wear them as baggy...

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[Ruby]

Originally posted by Dr. Wahnsinn:
Greetings,
As much as some of us (myself included) wish this "style" would dry up and blow away in the wind, we may all realize its practicality some day. It doesn't look too good to wear tight 501s while wearing Depends underneath.

That paints a wonderful picture

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[ThinkInsane]

Originally posted by shmerek:
you have to cut the circulation off to your ass in order to keep your pants up.

That is one of the single greatest quotes I have ever seen. As for the kids in the clown pants, well, they should be put on a large catapult and launched into the sun. Or at least a brick wall.

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[mindwaves]

Semi-baggy clothing I guess is ok in my opinion, but "sagging" one's pants is pathetic. How are they supposed to run in case of a fire? Or in a more real world terms, how do they walk from one place to another without their hands on their waist all of the times? Typically, I just wear some fitting jeans and a polo shirt every day.

[AlbertWu]

One of my friends has a pair of SHORTS (yes, shorts) that go down to within 10 cm of his ankle...

My shorts currently extend 1 or 2 cm below the knee.

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