Tight pants on men look ridiculous.

by the use of the word 'pants' i take it this has caught on in the US too? we did a thread on 'skinny jeans' for men at one point.

i wear 'skinny jeans' because i am skinny

i wear distressed denim because, well.

I'm 6'0 and 130 lbs. Shit looks horrible.

your legs would look like redwoods rev. i'm 5' 7" 135 so i can pull it off.

Tight pants on skinny men looks even more ridiculous than on bigger men.

lol no

lol yes

tight pants on men look great. grow up a few years past 21 and maybe you'll see. in the meantime maybe stop posting to ilx too????

ALSO PLZ STOP CALLING YOURSELF 'THE REVEREND' FOR FUCKS SAKE

At least bigger guys have the excuse that they could just be wearing too small of pants rather than signaling to the entire world their intentions of looking in a douchelike way.

Hey, strgn, why don't you go fuck off? Thxkbye.

these are the jeans i wear
http://www.levisstore.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2350317&cp=2068573.2075200.2075206&parentPage=family

the dark color btw.

as if "strgn" is any less offensive than the reverend.

And it's not as if there isn't any acceptable medium between skinny and baggy, dude.

tight pants on men look great.

no.

I'm 5'5, 135. I don't rock the skinny jeans like I used to, but sometimes they're all I've got left.

Wear lots of pinstripe pants these days oddly enough.

I am wearing kind of not-quite-pinstripe, but pinstripey pants right now.

'strgn' is very offensive, especially since it's a word with an understandable meaning. love all yr gay insecurities. see:

http://img.timeinc.net/snow/content/images/06a/tight_M.jpg

have fun finding a sweetheart and mating for the benefit of the rest of humanity.

What does "strgn" even mean? I just assumed it was a random group of letters.

while back i thought it was jess in dis guys

no shit x-post

I thought it was like Czech for "butthurt about pants" or something

my pants make me butthurt

Oh my, that is offensive. J0rdan was right. (xp)

strgn get off the reverends jock

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519W7KZF5TL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

yeah i've been a party pooper on this here thread. carry on

Max, I think your use of the phrase "get off ____ jock", betrays your homosexual insecurities. Would you stop calling yourself 'max'?

a/s/l

want to cyber?

Let's take it offboard. Might be a bit embarrassing to have it hear where the folks can read.

have it here...haha

speak of the devil

awesome thread

are skinny jeans so bad? some people like clothing that wraps tightly around their groinal area. its snug.

I have underwear for that. I suppose some might prefer to go commando.

i wouldn't presume to know what's good for everybody, but i'm not as comfortable with the nuthug as i once was.

ok i said nuthug time to go home

fuckin graveyard shift

even awesomer thread

plus, you can swap with your GF if you have skinny jeans.

^ have done this

although she cant swap with you.

I think a woman would have to be of Amazonian stature to swap pants with me. I am tall and about 80% legs at that.

daniella_hantuchova.jpg

lol. i look great in tight pants.

Tight pants on men look ridiculous.

There. I needed to get that off my chest.

-- The Reverend, Monday, 31 December 2007 22:35 (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

Put them on your legs and see what happens.

I knew I was doing something wrong.

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3420/imageuploadimageqq6.jpg
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8079/imageuploadimageyh6.jpg
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/3858/imageuploadimageep7.jpg

type pants on men look ridiculous?

perv

777777777777777777777777777777777

Wear lots of pinstripe pants these days oddly enough.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, December 31, 2007 5:51 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

o_O

I'm wearing a pinstripe suit, which is 50% pants. They aren't tight though.

q. where do levi's 514s fit in all this

a. snug to my nuts

supposed to wear 514s hanging 3/4 off your ass.

op otm

robertwolf8080 otm assuming he means the jeans

i had a guy in my shop the other day and i swear to god he was wearing women's jeans. they were so tight. urgh. i could see his boxer shorts and his package was bulging. No wonder, even if he had peanuts, it would have bulged, so XXXXS petite sized jeans...

I really wanted to scream: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

at wal-mart last night two high school kids asked me where i got my levi 511 skinnys

reports from the front lines

damn a hoos is short

There. I needed to get that off my chest.

-- The Reverend, Monday, December 31, 2007 5:35 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link
http://www.bradblog.com/Images/siren.gifCHALLENGING OPINIONhttp://www.bradblog.com/Images/siren.gif

u guys are a bunch of little girls. you care more about zinging each other than discussing the topic(s) at hand

i was going to make the 77777777 joke but mine went
77777yyyyyyyhhhhhh7777yyyyhhh77yyhh7yhhh77yy
etc

op otm

-- deej, Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:22 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

what more is there to say jaxon

i am very thin (5'9, 145) and especially thin in the legs...and i am continually flabbergasted how "standard" jeans fit me so tight...i am like the thinnest guy i know and i can barely fit into them!!! who in the hell wears those things?

Can someone pls explain this new men's emo-jeans trend of the legs being ultra-tight stovepipes, but they're not only low slung hipsters, they have a massively baggy groin area, all hanging down between the guy's legs like a nappy.

C'mon, I know fashion is a spaz but guys, you look like you pooed your pants. And they make you walk funny. They're not a good look. Why do guys think their pants falling off, buttcrack and whiteys hangin' out, is ever a good look? Ew.

^^^That's mostly what I was inarticulately railing against when I made this.

Trayce otm

skinny jeans

Yeah I mean I love stovepipes on slim guys - dude in tight black jeans, winklepickers and big hair can look great - but this pants-falling-off palaver has to stop, before I openly point and laugh at some lad in the street. I swear I'm gonna do it one day.

(as it is, me and my bf play a "punch in the arm" game whenever either of us sees a dude with a popped collar. If we ever go shopping in chapel st my arms are sore as fuck after half a day).

The only "skinny jeans lol" I think that look ridiculous are the ones that look like they're vacuum sealed on the dude... seems like that's the trend now.

That whole early 80s super straight leg thing, that's fine, especially for the skinny dudes who had to suffer during the super-baggy clothing craze of the 90s when size S = XXL.

yeah, when they look like tights, it's the worst

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2349/2158783871_09a048fafa.jpg?v=0

That outfit is kind of amazing.

Michael Alig having a lot to answer for in that outfit there. LOL klub kidz.

Can someone pls explain this new men's emo-jeans trend of the legs being ultra-tight stovepipes, but they're not only low slung hipsters, they have a massively baggy groin area, all hanging down between the guy's legs like a nappy.

C'mon, I know fashion is a spaz but guys, you look like you pooed your pants.

Hey can you give some pictorial examples? I don't think you're talking about what jaxon posted

>especially for the skinny dudes who had to suffer during the super-baggy clothing craze of the 90s when size S = XXL.

This is a good point too. I remember once noting how at least another person's legs could comfortably fit into those damned "cargo pants" I was wearing. Maybe that has more to do with me

Can someone pls explain this new men's emo-jeans trend of the legs being ultra-tight stovepipes, but they're not only low slung hipsters, they have a massively baggy groin area, all hanging down between the guy's legs like a nappy.

this was mentioned on another thread, there's a name for it - "slouch skinny" or something and yes it's utterly ridiculous.. i see it as an attempt to have your skinny cake but eat your hip-hop too

dude in tight black jeans, winklepickers and big hair

If he wore sensibly sized trousers, he wouldn't be pickin' at his winkle.

we should all remember mr miyagi's words of wisdom - "tight jeans - safe; baggy jeans - safe; but if man wear jeans are skinny at bottom but baggy on top, sooner or later someone will make joke about him incontinence"

> i see it as an attempt to have your skinny cake but eat your hip-hop too

Maybe also a way to generate "room" for your testicles but keep the legs fashionably slim

I'm not talking a little baggy, here - I've seen pants with the crotch join halfway to the knees, with no exaggeration.

what these crotchsters really want is the late lamented chi-pants, which had a diamond-shaped gusset in the crotch. i had a black cotton pair and i have to say they were pretty awesome. recalled here:

http://www.pigdog.org/auto/special_ideas/link/2213.html

it ain't only some guys who need to stop wearing the skinny jeans - i see soooo many tubby girls wearing these tapered, skin tight jeans with the big ol' muffin hanging out over the top. i just want to yell DUDE IT'S OK TO BE TUBS BUT NOT IN THOSE PANTS

. Look at your crotch. If what you see looks like the intersection of State and Main, then you don't have them. If what you see is a diamond-shaped panel that gives you a vast range of motion for all the kung-fu moves you don't know how to do, then congratulations! You're wearing Chi-Pants

i just want to yell DUDE IT'S OK TO BE TUBS BUT NOT IN THOSE PANTS

Exactly - this drives me nuts. Someone needs to teach them about the value of learning to dress for your body type.

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D08182004

haha I regret having missed the tight pants skirmish of '08. Although I'm still unclear on how tight the tight pants that mr. Revrend objects to are. Sometimes you want your pants to say, "Hey, I'm comfy" and sometimes you want them to say, "Oh yeah, baby. That's my ass. You are NOT dreaming." A time for every purpose under heaven.

kenan the Rev is specifically railing against tight pants that are NOT tight in the butt

Wasn't there something historical that resembled this, where men were still wearing tight stocking-like things but looser cloth around the fork of the body?

UH JODHPURS. Salwar kameez. Hammertime?

Well, stockings used to be two separate pieces that tied to yr shirt with "points"...and the two giant socks left a gap in the middle, hence the codpiece.

Sounds like having a poo was extra fun in the olde days.

See? Just be happy that we have PANTS.

http://www.retrojunk.com/img/art-images/snl88154.jpg

http://www.retrojunk.com/img/art-images/snl88155.jpg

aw shit.

Hammer time! I was definitely thinking of Hammer-time pants, unconsciously. I am awaiting actually their revival, and within two-three years of that wearing clothing backwards a la Kriss Kross. I'd be happy if the rest of the 90s can just be skipped and we wind up where we are now - before these balloon-pants things

I was given a pair of Chip n Pepper tight jeans yesterday. they are low rise with flared bottoms and they fit but I hate them. Problem is I can't afford jeans off the rack (even if that rack is Goodwill) so they will have to do u_u

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-890352-1189535599.jpeg

acceptable?

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/ramones.jpg

acceptable?

http://www.alispeaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/skinny-jeans-nyt.jpg

acceptable?

http://levi.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pLEVI1-3554751p275w.jpg

i'm built like joey ramone so everything i wear is skinny. yet never tight.

Yes, and yes except for wtf pink shoes. The pair in the middle does look a little more snug than ideal, but whatever.

I think more than anything that secon pic is about the importance of your choice of shoe. (The boots win.)

You know, my biggest objection to the contemporary tight jean is how it puddles around the ankles. I prefer them shorter (to wear and to look at).

Then you risk the Urkel. I probably look like Urkel a lot.

Teh Ramonez are not remotely Urkel!

i like to show off my cool socks a little down there! so yeah, a bit shorter is good. but depends on the shoes sometimes.

You risk more than the Urkel sometimes; witness Mr. Pink Shoes above. They might still be ok if he hadn't... done THAT to his pants. "Hi, I wish I was a little girl, also check out my package." You need years and years of therapy.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/2423513416_aa62a956ec.jpg

sometimes you need to go all tight-pants poindexter / emcee from cabaret on a yacht and just let the haters hate themselves till they blue in the face

Teh Ramonez are not remotely Urkel!

Notice how they're standing completely still. They were probably flashing some serious ankle.

^^^ my opinion towards this photo is largely "I may not agree with what you're wearing but I will defend to the death your right to wear it"

xpost

Elmo they are basically adorable, it's true. Gayer than WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood comparing their notes on Bangkok boy baths. Gayer than Lance Bass, dancing with Billy Madison, on the S.S. Polesmoker, to the Pet Shop Boys. But cuet.

(Credit for the above goes to some guy on youtube who makes me laff.)

Man jeans are tough for me. I'm 6'1" and about 140lbs or so and NOTHING FITS ME EVER. Even with sorta skinny jeans I need a damn belt. Like I need to wear fairly skinny pants just so they don't feel and look all danglydroopy, but it's difficult to find the balance between "these fit me" and "painted on megabulge".

Oh and I have a friend where wears pants that like...well have you seen that bit in uh...was it Superbad? Where the fat kid had the most ridiculous jeans ever? Exactly like that, but with more boxers sticking out. It's crazy tight.

I wish more appropriate people actually had the ""painted on megabulge" and the ones who weren't, couldn't even be allowed to think about it

xpost Megabulge, huh? You think so? ;)

Show me yours I'll show you mine. I believe I mentioned 11 inches on dat other thread

And that's 11 inches when it's still "bulged" not unwrapped

Vichi 8080, the "whiskering" effect on jeans is a definite signifier of masculinity among the fashion victim set, also it looks fucking stupid

UH o_0

http://bulgingjeans.blogspot.com/

THATS MY BLOG GUYS. HOPE YOU LIKE

I GOT SOME OF THAT SHIT PUBLISHED IN PITCHFORK AND VILLAGE VOICE PRE-EVIL TAKEOVAH

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/517/transformer7sg.png

Even with sorta skinny jeans I need a damn belt.

Dude this is normal. Did you think belts were just for people who have the wrong size of pants?

elmo, you don't like bulges? are you no longer gay? i thought I saw your cute pic on the Appletini thread :(

http://bp0.blogger.com/_Ku5C-tXG6hc/R_lPlW6wl_I/AAAAAAAACpo/OW73Wd_dv8c/s1600-h/jnr1a.jpg

yeah didn't think that would flyyy

bulges are fine by me

this isn't my thing, but i don't get the problem here

wear some too-small sweatpants and you'll definitely have everyone's attention

I love the way pants from H&M fit me, just right in the butt, and not so much megabulge but definitely Penis: Extant! It's a shame they only live for like a year.

tmi dude

Hey I'm not the one claiming to have a snake.

thank you very much

wow, this thread went wtf pretty quickly huh?

they always do

The sad tragiocomic truth is, the tight skinny jeans for men from Urban Outfitters really are the perfect tight skinny jeans anywhere in the known universe - but no hipster will admit to buying/owning/wearing them

very sad, yes

Dude this is normal. Did you think belts were just for people who have the wrong size of pants?

-- Tracer Hand, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:53 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Do most people NEED a belt literally every pair of pants they own?

if they want to look put together, it's kind of required in some places

wait, kenan has a snake that only lives for a year at a time and lives in his pants?

Sure, but will their pants stay up otherwise? (xpost) Because mine don't, really.

http://blogs.chron.com/blog9/snake.bmp

whoa wtf is that from?

snakepants: the movie

"escape from my pants"

snakepants: the pants that snake people

Wait am I the only person who uses the word snake in place of steal?

On the Hercules and Love Affair record, Antony structures this interesting word usement:

Don't lie to me
Don't make it up
Don't snake it up
Don't snake it up my friend

"Snake it up"... I kinda like it! "I thought we were so in love, and then I found out that all this time he'd been snaking it up."

So I snake, yeah
Just keep it on the down low
Said nobody supposed to know

I H8 PLISKIN

Way way more than any pants except maybe those keyboard ones.

snaaaaaaaaaaake

http://www.viceland.com/int/dos_donts/1343/main.jpg

question? what is the "whiskering effect"?

http://www.ruckersclothing.co.uk/images/uploads/avi-parl.jpg

lol crotch has whiskers

but those are obviously fake
i really hate pre-faded jeans now esp when they're as weak as that

Denimist.

the ramones cover upthread has plenty of AUTHENTIC whiskering ;-)

Oh. Yuck. Maybe if it looked slightly more natural, but that is as ugly as a brunette with solid streaked highlights.

xpost.

lol "escape from my pants"

Dude carrying around a snake is bad enough, but what is that sticking out from under his shirt? An opossum, maybe?

leather fannypack :( :(

I don't see a Dave Foley link:

I won’t be doing Hecubus this time around, I’m very pleased to say...
I don’t want to wear the damn tights anywhere! I’ve seen video of me as a middle-aged man in tights, and it’s not very pleasant. Playing that character as a skinny boy was one thing; it’s just not as cute as it was.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/04/the_kids_in_the_halls_dave_fol.html

i am wearing tight jeans

to do:

1. no more tights, ever.
2. get teeth fixed

morbs i saw foley do hecubus on the 'tour of duty' tour, so unfortunate

I read this thread title as "Tight pants on me look ridiculous".

i've already told the Hecubus 1989 live boner story

live boner

Your favourite charity?

I like all the pics Z.S. posted. Everything there looks good but the WTF pink shoes and rolled-up cuffs. I super love the last one with white loafers and the shiny belt. Would hit.

Jeans should be skinny. Tight non-jean pants on men look gross, even on Mick Jagger in the early 1960s.

Denim shorts depress me about the prospects for the human race. ;_;

Sure, but will their pants stay up otherwise? (xpost) Because mine don't, really.

That's what happens when you don't have hips! It doesn't mean you're weird or that your pants are the wrong size though. And with low-rise jeans it's the only way to avoid showing the world your crack.

Those low riding girl jeans are weird. Even scrawny girls look all pudge in 'em, and girls who don't belong in 'em wear 'em all the goddamn time. The pants that say hey check out my thong and tramp stamp and weird butt mole I'm not ashamed of for some reason. lol bar scene.

that's pretty good. try here for more:

What is the correct way to make fun of girls wearing hip-huggers?

Haha, butt cleavage. Once I was at work (grocery store)...no, this has happened twice...I walk by and look down and isle and notice an astonishing amount of plumber butt. And then it hits me, it's one of my bosses on her knees monkeying with something the bottom shelf-- Should have known, you can seriously smell her two isles away.

All that crack from a regular pair of khakis. Gal must have a horrible time.

Even scrawny girls look all pudge in 'em,

you're saying this like it's a bad thing...

"coinslot"

Even scrawny girls look all pudge in 'em,

you're saying this like it's a bad thing...

-- chicago kevin, Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:09 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Sorry, I meant it like it's a weird thing. I'm actually not into scrawny girls at all, which doesn't work out in my also scrawny favor since the ones I like usually outweigh me a bit. They don't seem to like that.

pudge = A+ in my book.

best to not let them hear you call it "pudge" i think?

least of my obstacles at the moment.

I have always, always envied the ultra-rail-thin look. I have what could be termed "pudge." The grass is etc etc.

I'm actually not into scrawny girls at all, which doesn't work out in my also scrawny favor since the ones I like usually outweigh me a bit. They don't seem to like that.

-- RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:24 AM (Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:24 AM) Bookmark Link

My sad reality.

bench-pressin' the honeys

I don't know, girls keep dating my roommates and they're like toothpicks wrapped in black denim. The girls tend to be young and...I'm not sure how bright, but hey.

I agree re: the tight trousers thing. Slim fit is okay though.

That didn't come out right.

me and last serious girlfriend would have combined to be about 12 feet, 245 lbs. of human.

Kevin maybe you should take up glam-rock stylings and the world's tightest black jeans. And flat-iron your hair. I hear 14-yr olds go for that.

oh, hey, i didn't tell you. i got my annual haircut about two weeks ago. no hair to iron.

Just in time for spring!

the ones I like usually outweigh me a bit. They don't seem to like that

I can identify with that. I'm five ten and a size ten so not exactly tiny and I've always had a hard time dating scrawny guys even though I often find them attractive. In the end I think height is more important to me then weight though. Tall and skinny is A-ok. Then again my on again off again boyfriend from years ago was about five six and 90 pounds soaking wet.

i made my bf weigh himself the other day just to make sure he didn't weigh less than me!

does he?

haaaa
xpost

no! surprisingly.

poor form on my part to ask, sorry. but having met him i know he borders on the elfen so...

He's tall, though. And kind of rangy. I bet I still outweigh him but I am made of bricks.

laurel is mighty might, just lettin' it all hang out.

"the ones I like usually outweigh me a bit. They don't seem to like that"

I can identify with that. I'm five ten and a size ten so not exactly tiny and I've always had a hard time dating scrawny guys even though I often find them attractive. In the end I think height is more important to me then weight though. Tall and skinny is A-ok. Then again my on again off again boyfriend from years ago was about five six and 90 pounds soaking wet.

-- ENBB, Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:00 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, it never seems to stop more generously proportioned gals from dating me (must be the height), but it always leads to these futile debates. They usually begin with some kind of flirtatious comment on my part about how nice they're looking, and then it just disintegrates into, like, "I'm faaaatt", "Yeah dude, sweet!", "HORRIBLESCREEEECHINGSOUND!!!!"
Ok my actual response is usually more of a sheepish, "but I like how you look" (and on into why), but it just winds up being this horrible, futile game of Kriegspiel w/o a referee, and then I don't get laid because I said she looks gorgeous in those pants.
Kind of an extreme example there, but to varying degrees I've had the exact same problem with nearly every girl I've been involved with, regardless of body type.

yup, im pretty tallish and sturdy and I'm not usually attracted to super skinny guys (mainly because I don't think they'd be into me); but yeah, if they are tall I can sometimes make acceptions. Small and slight I just think, YEEEE i will crush you!

Dear Lord

I saw two young men wearing these. Because of the uncontrollable grin I had on my face, I think they thought I was checking them out.

I truly can't articulate the silliness of this garment in real-life. The missing part of the picture is that you can't really walk in these pants. You just kind of shuffle-walk, sort of like when you have to run to the phone while in the middle of going to the bathroom.

oh my, that is quite incredible.

what convinced the wonka company to license the pattern for the oompa-loompa uniform pants to denim makers?? //78*^#*()EUUAKHaaughhhhhh

PLEASE LET THESE CATCH ON OH PLEASE OH PLEASE

If this becomes a serious trend I will not stop laughing for a decade.

thank you, Soulful Commandoe

well, they're not exactly new....

in denim:
http://streetpeeper.com/?p=1207

in cotton:
http://streetpeeper.com/?p=3964
http://streetpeeper.com/?p=3071

all of those are variously less offensive than the 'soulful commandoe' version but i still think they look stupid.

the soulful commandoe is pretty awful, but i actually like some of the drop crotch/harem'y pants. not the denim ones though

omg second of phil's links is killing me

(hi phil!)

the real problem with skinny jeans as any guy will tell you is that it's very difficult to keep 1) cigarettes 2) keys 3) phone 4) ipod 5) wallet 6) earbuds 7) lighter in the pockets with looking and feeling like you've turned into one of those comme des garcons lumpy people - these trousers solve the problem!

Don't forget 8) the balls TH. THE BALLS.
What are 6) earbuds ???

The guy in phil's first link knows how to rock them shits proper.

lol ate the balls

Oh fuck. I have to destroy the world now.

the real problem with skinny jeans as any guy will tell you is that it's very difficult to keep 1) cigarettes 2) keys 3) phone 4) ipod 5) wallet 6) earbuds 7) lighter in the pockets with looking and feeling like you've turned into one of those comme des garcons lumpy people

thats what gay tote bags are for!!

fricking tote bags

honestly, once the weather actually gets nice i have no idea how i'm going to carry around what i need

http://images.cafepress.com/product/152229244v10_240x240_Front.jpg

this maybe?

I don't know if I could lie like that

what about this one i designed?

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9638/totesau0.jpg

Tote bags on men look ridiculous, but I like them anyway

backpack, yo.

Totesally Dude

tote bags are the worst look on a man to ever exist on the planet

come to think of it they suck on women too

you heard it here first: tote bags are done. like, really done.

where do we now stand on the tight pants issue? are 511's a bad look? i love a good loose fit too i'm just tryin' to get opinions here.