is men with tight jeans pulled down so the waist is below the arse & AND IT'S BELTED THERE to keep it in postion the most ridiculous fashion ever?

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i know it's a continuation of both the low slung hip-hop jean mixed with the rent boy look but this is just totally off the map isn't it? it's looks so bafflingly stupid and impractical it's just mind boggling.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 23 July 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

is men with tight jeans pulled down so the waist is below the arse & AND IT'S BELTED THERE to keep it in postion the most ridiculous fashion ever?

some mod add "arse" please i'm a bit drunk.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 23 July 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

ya bet its fashion...ridiculous but fashion...i like it

― bam psycho (bam_psycho), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

i still think shrugs and/or boleros will always be most ridiculous.

― a mellow and sorrowful musical tapestry that is, for lack of a better term, (teh, Monday, 24 July 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

its cause they are the secret gay

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

pictures please.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

i've never seen anyone dressed like this, but the description does suggest it's beyond ridiculous, yes.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 24 July 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's the secret to achieving the skinny legs/saggy arse look. The ladies love it.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Monday, 24 July 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, I HATE IT! It makes me so mad.

I adore shrugs/boleros though.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

need pix, can't visualise.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

i hate it. and i hate shrugs/boleros.

xpost no pic sorry but imagine skin tight stretch jeans worn with arse crack showing.

― miele kitty (miele), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

A school kid walked passed me today dressed like this. Hope his classmates are merciful to the poor lad.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

what are stretch jeans..?

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

well, I think it's less ridiculous than the "XXXXXL" jeans I used to wear hiphop style in the 90s(instead of a regular "S" now... or even "XS" at the time) with the huge LA gear snickers and the jerseys...
thank god I don't think there are any pictures left of these dark times...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

I sport this look.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a kid riding his bike like this, with shorts. He could hardly pedal because the crotch was at his knees.

Come to think of it, I also saw a homeless guy walking down the street with his pants around his ankles. That could be a fashion soon.

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

from wiki:

Among certain groups, saggy, baggy trousers exposing underwear are in fashion, e.g. among skaters, for whom it also provides more freedom of movement.

o rly?

In May 2004 in Louisiana, Congressman Dick Shepard proposed a bill that would make it a crime to appear in public wearing trousers below the waist and thereby exposing one's skin or "intimate clothing". ([1], PDF). The Louisiana bill was retracted after negative public reaction.

In February 2005, Virginia legislators tried to pass a similar law that would have made punishable by a $50 fine: "any person who, while in a public place, intentionally wears and displays his below-waist undergarments, intended to cover a person's intimate parts, in a lewd or indecent manner".

It is not clear whether, with the same coverage by the trousers, exposing underwear was considered worse than exposing bare skin, or that the latter was already covered by another law.

It passed in the Virginia House of Delegates. However, various criticisms to it arose. For example, newspaper columnists and radio talk show hosts consistently said that since most people that would be penalized under the law would be young African-American men, the law would thus be a form of discrimination against them. Virginia's state senators voted against passing the law.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

why, Alba, why?

grimly i can't find a photo of it online, it's pretty ubiquitous though. just to be clear, it's not showing bare arse it's showing almost the entirety of yr boxers.

xpost

freedom of movement my arse!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

The hip-hop fashion version always stumped me. Why do people want others to see that much of their pants? Was it a 'I'm hot/confident enough to do this and I'm implying I have large penis i.e. can't be confined by trousers in the same way you are' thing?

But at least their trousers were baggy. Skinny jeans/indie version is probably worse.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

a few weeks back a big guy was walking up the bus stairs and I could see his entire arse because his trouser waistline had sunk down to just above his knees taking his pants with it. only a cunningly positioned bag strap seemed to be holding them up at all. OH THE HUMANITY.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Stevem, do not make me drool on my keyboard!

It's the secret to achieving the skinny legs/saggy arse look. The ladies love it.

Yes, indeed. I ROWRZE whenever I see a guy passing me by with this outfit.

I think D-Squared *invented* this look:

http://www.modademarca.net/otros/dsquared/polo_azul1.JPG

YUMMY!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

was that a hip hop or indie one?

xpost

the look was *invented* by passive men in american prisons i believe.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

That guy has a belt and still has to hold his trousers up with his hands. Dude, use the next notch.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

that guy is showing his waitband, that's not what i'm talking about at all.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://image05.webshots.com/5/9/68/78/81096878uDyowV_ph.jpg

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

the look was *invented* by passive men in american prisons i believe.

i shall inform the chaps at the back of the 106 to Whitechapel of this stunning revelation and be sure to come back here with details of their reaction.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

the look was *invented* by passive men in american prisons i believe.

The Hip Hop baggy trousers sans belt was indeed invented in the prison because they'd take the belts (and other items that could be used for suicide or violent acts) away. I think.

Whatever, skinny jeans with ass crack showing: ROWRZER. :-)

But after seeing that pic Dave posted, I think I'll chuck my dinner in the loo.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

i can't see that pic! (forbidden)

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever, skinny jeans with ass crack showing: ROWRZER. :-)

All for equality (i.e. equal sexual objectification of men and women in society as and when) and all that, but strangely when I see ladies with their crack peeping out of their jeans it's rarely as appealing as perhaps it could be (nor when you can see the thong). i'm quite prudish tho tbh.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

i can't see that pic! (forbidden)
try this...
http://community.webshots.com/album/81096043HyqQpO

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

the exposed boxer/baggy pants thing was done by alt.skaters in my high school when my hip-hop friends were still wearing fitted cross-colors head-to-toe outfits and/or overalls with one strap hanging down.

the worst hipster dude fashion trend in past couple years i've seen is the "wearing the handkerchief around your neck as if you just robbed a olde tyme western bank" look.

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

fashion=ridiculous=fashion

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://community.webshots.com/photo/81096043/1081097971046726632nIKxlW

hahahahahahahahah Oh man, this one *cracks* me up.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not sure why the baggy hip hop version seems so much less ridiculous to me than the tight indie version. maybe it's just, by this stage, a more ingrained signifier.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I am having horrendous flashbacks to this time last year in the Spread Eagle in Camden. People who were there will know what I mean (Madchen? Ken? Dahlin? Jerry the Nipper? Lauren? - I can't remember who was there, but I know me and Michael Grant had tears rolling down our cheeks - no pun intended - at how ridiculous this guy looked, and we sent reconnaissance missions off to the toilets just to walk past him and laugh). This bloke had ACRES of pants exposed above his jeans. Someone, (Mrs Jerry the Nipper I think) tried to take photos, but I don't think they worked.

Anyway, dud. Yuk.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

thnx for the title change mod.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

-- Konal Doddz (stevem7...), July 24th, 2006.

nah otm, it's a puzzler. depends on girl maybe.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not sure why the baggy hip hop version seems so much less ridiculous to me than the tight indie version. maybe it's just, by this stage, a more ingrained signifier.

baggy already suggests 'casual' or 'looseness' so the lowness is just an extension of that.

tight trousers would be even tighter if worn below the waist, you would think, so it must be even more uncomfortable/difficult to maintain (hence belt i guess) surely?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

we've had big pants (trousers, whatever), low pants, inside-out pants, backwards pants .. I don't think there's been a high pants fashion yet... I think shirt-as-pants could be a good gimmick - either legs in armholes or arms tied around waist like a diaper. Not sure if sideways pants would work, but I like to say sideways pants.

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

eheh. pants worn very high on the chest. almost to the armpit. like in the old movies. HYPE !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, shirt-as-pants will SO happen.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

wigeddy wigeddy wigeddy wack

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Scarlett Johansson: Someone say high pants?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/gofugyourself/scarlettjohanssonolympus068qg.jpg

― Roz (Roz), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

higher-waisted pants/jeans are going to be fall/winter trend, or so i've heard.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

NECK PANTS

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

SIMON COWELL PANTS!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

One leg each from two pairs of pants, belted like chaps.

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

well, for obvious reasons, scarlett couldn't wear her trousers to the armpit... unless someone changes the design of the front of trousers...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

whither cholos?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/barnard/theater/kirkland/3136/1940s%20Gallery/images/13.1940.5.17.jpg

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

the worst hipster dude fashion trend in past couple years i've seen is the "wearing the handkerchief around your neck as if you just robbed a olde tyme western bank" look.

oh wait, i like doing this :(

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

but that's what neckerchiefs are for. i don't think there's anything wrong with it.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

ah. that's what I had in mind Paul !
I can already imagine the hipsters walking around dressed like that. I will !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure baggy casuals emerged in hip-hop along with the gangsta era, since big non-descript clothes (baggy jeans, puffy jacket, work boots) were pretty much what a street-corner dealer would be wearing (and packing a gun underneath). So that took over as a style cue, especially since the era immediately preceding it was fairly flashy and peacocky and perceived as "feminized" (sequins and curls!) -- low-slung loose and baggy would suddenly read a whole lot tougher.

The neckerchief is a post-punk staple, so one main criticism of it now would be that it's too obviously retro!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

There were plenty of Hip-Hop fashion trends between the west coast Prince-esque jherri curl and the baggy pants trend. As stated, Cross Colors for one.

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

there was also the semi-tight jeans/Nike Cortez gangsta look I remember from the mid-80s. and black preppy/kwame/new jack look that just presaged cross colours. I think cross colours(which in turn presaged the self-consciously gangsta styles that came to dominate) did a lot to blow up the baggy pants trend even though it seemed like only one aspect of that style at the time.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

oooh 8 ball jackets!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, wheelie, I got poxyfuled when I tried to double-post and talk about that. Yeah, there was a brief era of kinda middle-class Cross Colorsish hip-hop fashion, those few years where every video was set in a dorm at a black college and guys wore overalls with one strap off. But I think that might have been kind of east-coast regional (north and south, but still east), and it was a little bit short-lived. Weren't there all those pictures of Easy-E, shortly before NWA, totally curled and sequined? (Plus like Bay-area Hammer going ultra-pop around the same time with a look that probably would have seemed totally flashy and out-of-date by east-coast standards?)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

higher-waisted pants/jeans are going to be fall/winter trend, or so i've heard.

awesome! I've been waiting for this to happen for forever.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

yeah nabisco today has been one helluva poxy fueled day. anyway, i think tremendoid covered enough ground for us both...

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

is this still a thing

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 October 2011 10:44 (fourteen years ago)

i feel like i haven't seen it in awhile

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 October 2011 10:44 (fourteen years ago)

I see it in my neighborhood every day.

― Food! Trends! Men! Hate! (Phil D.), Friday, 21 October 2011 10:52 (fourteen years ago)

Me too. But my neighbourhood is hardly on trend.

― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 21 October 2011 11:05 (fourteen years ago)

I think drop crotch jeans are even worse, and you still see them in Manchester all the time. Tight around the calves, apparently concealing a full nappy up top

http://www.fallenhero.co.uk/admin1/image/1/11133_Humor_Santiago_Drop_Crotch_Jeans_-_819503_1.jpg

― Vasco da Gama, Friday, 21 October 2011 11:17 (fourteen years ago)

i those are for playing world of warcraft in

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 October 2011 11:18 (fourteen years ago)

i THINK those

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 October 2011 11:18 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/zEDlE.gif

― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Friday, 21 October 2011 11:22 (fourteen years ago)

not jeans, but the guy from one direction's chinos here are delightful

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/popcrush.com/files/2011/10/One-Direction.jpg

― Vasco da Gama, Friday, 21 October 2011 11:23 (fourteen years ago)

The very sight of drop-crotch jeans makes me irrationally angry.

― dog latin, Friday, 21 October 2011 11:27 (fourteen years ago)

I think the worst thing about this trend was that i think that one of the functions of trousers is to act as a sort of a vapor barrier, and so these guys asses were only one thin piece of cotton away from society. and then you figure a guy who wears his trousers that low most likely isn't eating too well in the first place.

― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 21 October 2011 11:28 (fourteen years ago)

It makes guys walk awkwardly, like, they cant actually walk normally without their pants actually falling off, so why the fuck do... oh I dont even get it.

― Trayce, Friday, 21 October 2011 11:29 (fourteen years ago)

Also did everyone fucking forget the hilarity of MC Hammer pants already, or what?

― Trayce, Friday, 21 October 2011 11:29 (fourteen years ago)

seems like you guys have a problem with men simply preparing in advance for the onset of scrotal elephantiasis

― We All Had Guess Papers (DJ Mencap), Friday, 21 October 2011 11:47 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/news/shirtless-lil-wayne-hits-miami-beach-with-mystery-woman.jpg

― Maybe more Danson and Galifianakis would help (Eazy), Friday, 21 October 2011 11:53 (fourteen years ago)

har1 ashur5t second from the right in one direction there

― the men who glare at stoats (sic), Friday, 21 October 2011 13:16 (fourteen years ago)

I feel like saying to the blond one "If Zane jumped off a building, you would as well, huh?" (btw Zane is on the far right)

― triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Friday, 21 October 2011 13:20 (fourteen years ago)

they're his signature trousers

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/10/article-1337628-0C634DC6000005DC-475_634x439.jpg

― Vasco da Gama, Friday, 21 October 2011 13:36 (fourteen years ago)

dj mencap otm

http://i.imgur.com/qzCDK.png

― dayo, Friday, 21 October 2011 13:43 (fourteen years ago)

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