How old is your waistline?

[Creeping Past]

How high do your trousers sit?

Never mind baseline error, this is a waistline error.

I know where my waist is. It seems the characters who compiled this have a problem locating mens waists.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"I have always considered level with the belly button"

 

[Yeps]

I tend to wear my trousers on my hips for two reasons. First, and most important, it is very hard to find trousers in a size 32-36, so i must wear trousers with shorter legs because they are available. Second, and only sort of legitimate, I have extremely long legs and a very short torso, so when I wear trousers correctly, I look like an ostrich.

 

[Tomasso]

Article here.

 

[anon`]

Oddly enough, I appear to be twenty-seven. More strange, however, is that I appear to have been this age for the past three years.

The author of that article would've done well to put some effort into researching her satorial history, however. The earliest descendent of modern trousers may have appeared only in the 16th century, but the Thorsberg Mose pants (which are of remarkably complex, gusseted construction and feature a low wait, belt loops and integral feet) were deposited as a votive offering some 1200 years before that. Trousers were known to the Scythian and Persian cultures extant alongside ancient Greece. Trousers were ubiquitous in Scandinavia and most of Celtic, Germanic and Slavic Europe from (before?) their Bronze Ages until after the close of the first millenium AD. Indeed, the wearing of pants was considered by supposedly-civilised Greeks and Romans of Antiquity to be one of the supposed hallmarks of the barbaroi.

 

[Richard Warren]

The author would have done well to have...written something that made sense.

 

[Geesie]

Trousers aren't made with much variety in rise so it's not really a matter of "how old are you?"

 

[Hexenmeister]

We have an elderly customer who comes into the store to print photos every so often, and I swear his pants go half way up his torso and sit just below his chest. [huh]

 

[skyvue]

We have an elderly customer who comes into the store to print photos every so often, and I swear his pants go half way up his torso and sit just below his chest. [huh]

I've got some pairs like that.

 

[Richard Warren]

Low rise pants are fashionable now. They look good on some young women.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

The author would have done well to have...written something that made sense.

lol

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"But I remember in the early 1970's as a teenager we wore "Bags" which had rather high waist and were very 1940's looking they were done in loud checks (plaid patterns) and also in denim"

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Is there a Fl'r who can Photoshop a Naval on to the diagram so we can "See how the land lies?"

 

[Creeping Past]

"Is there a Fl'r who can Photoshop a Naval on to the diagram so we can "See how the land lies?"

Also an idea of where the hips might be. Plus a suggestion of where the ribs are. Etc.

 

[Paisley]

The waist (narrowest part of the torso) is pretty close to the elbow (see the arm to the right). The belly button is just below it.

 

[Paisley]

Also an idea of where the hips might be. Plus a suggestion of where the ribs are. Etc.

Ribs vary. My waist has ribs.

 

[bbshriver]

The narrowest place of my "torso" is either above or below my stomach... My mom always said it's at your belly-button, but for me pants don't stay up that high unless I were to use suspenders. They fall down to sit at the narrowest place which is right at the bottom of my stomach, above my hips.

The waist (narrowest part of the torso) is pretty close to the elbow (see the arm to the right). The belly button is just below it.

 

[Paisley]

I should have said, "The waist, for those who have one..."

 

[JimWagner]

I didn't have one for years, but after losing 30 lbs I seem to have acquired one at about belly button level.

 

[Creeping Past]

I've discovered something similar over the past few years, Jim.