Which decade is the worst in terms of style?

[olive bleu]

lol lol lol oh Lizzie, have you been looking in my windows?? HA HA

 

[Yeps]

With regards to the sagging pants...

...I've always wondered how people can walk and not lose them. They seem to defy physical laws - that of gravity.
[huh]

Police love them for that reason. There have been many criminals caught because they couldn't run away with baggy pants.

 

[rlandrews3rd]

Police love them for that reason. There have been many criminals caught because they couldn't run away with baggy pants.

And it's really funny to watchlol

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

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lol lol lol lol :eusa_clap

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

I found this thread (again) looking for something else. I saw a young man who was sagging, but differently than what's been popular for the last decade. I worked with a reserve (now small town chief) police officer who told me the background on sagging pants. In prison, the girly men wear skin tight Calvin Klein jeans. In order to not be mistaken for girly men, other prisoners would wear their jeans VERY baggy. This lead to sagging apparently. Before this sighting, most of the sagging jeans would have actually effectively covered the guys, had they been wearing them as Levi intended. This sighting was very different....

Anyway, this young man was wearing skin tight jeans but the waist band only came up to about 2 inches below his butt. The jeans were also too tight to EVER go over his butt. The hem of the jeans was at the "normal" height above his tennis shoes. The crotch was at his knees. This guy was about 6 foot even, and his pants would have fit a boy about 4 foot 6 inches. He was waddling quickly along the street leaving the Wal Mart parking lot. He couldn't have run away from an 85 year old policeman.

Later

 

[AtomicEraTom]

What I had heard about the sagging pants in prison was about the opposite. That the men wishing to be, ahem, the "fairer one" in the relationship for lack of a more appropriate way to put it.

 

[Puzzicato]

You get to choose Calvin Klein jeans in prison? Who says crime doesn't pay?

 

[JimWagner]

http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp

Maybe this will help answer the origin of sagging question.

 

[Feraud]

The sagging pants in prison is due to bad sizing. I thought this was common knowledge?

 

[Vintage lover]

I still remember the time when I saw a guy fall on his face when his baggy pants fell while running across a cross walk.

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

^ It would be very hard for me to feel any sympathy for that person. To me to wear something so low simply shows a lack of common sense (it is to be expected that one will inevitably wind up tripping and/or falling).
[huh]

 

[Vintage lover]

Ah, but common sense isn't so common anymore. The funny part is that he than tried to; get up/ pull up his pants/ cross the street, at the same time. It didn't work.

 

[jamespowers]

Ah, but common sense isn't so common anymore. The funny part is that he than tried to; get up/ pull up his pants/ cross the street, at the same time. It didn't work.

I say we let prisoners have belts and let criminals wear sagging pants.

 

[bunnyb.gal]

I still remember the time when I saw a guy fall on his face when his baggy pants fell while running across a cross walk.

Am I a bad person if reading this made me involuntarily guffaw?

 

[olive bleu]

Schadenfreude is what saves me.

 

[The Good]

Speaking of which, I remember seeing quite a few baggy-jeans wearers at the campus of my community college last semester. I think I can recall seeing someone beltless as well. Low rise and baggy pants is never a good combination... Fortunately, I have never had to see anyone's pants falling down in public, but I know that this sort of thing may happen somewhere everyday.

How far do you believe this low rise trend will go? Quite frankly, I don't see higher waisted pants coming back any time soon. This younger generation is being raised on low rise, like no other that had come before them. When exactly was the last decade that higher rise was popular in the mainstream amongst this age demographic, the 1970s, or 1980s?

 

[Gil]

Worst Decade

I'd have to go with the 2000's. It's just plain blah, ugly stuff. I can't help but think of the story of The Emperors' New Clothes when I see what people wear just because they've heard that it's cool. I teach teenagers and thank God they have to wear uniforms, because on days when they get to dress down, it's a disaster. They actually pay hard cash for jeans that are manufactured with worn spots, tears, and even worse.... grease stains on the fronts of the pant legs. I worked in a garage in the '80's and that's what my work pants looked like because I'd actually spilled oil and done dirty work in them. The kids strut around bragging about how much they paid for them and what lable they carry, when they could've found nicer stuff in a dumpster.

A lot of what people are wearing nowadays is also determined by the fact that many are morbidly obese and are trying to find something that doesn't cut off their circulation. Teen boys are idolizing criminals who call themselves "gangstas", so they try to look like thugs, and they don't understand why people get a negative impression of them.

Lately I've been watching old DVD's of The Fugitive and I can't get over how nicely everyone was dressed back in the early to mid sixities. Those shows were filmed on location and even the guys who did dirty work had a nice presentable appearance.

 

[John in Covina]

Teen boys are idolizing criminals who call themselves "gangstas", so they try to look like thugs, and they don't understand why people get a negative impression of them.

This is a point I have said several times. There is a trend towards the idea of looking "cool" that is a pursuit of looking skanky, evil or dangerous. (However everytime I raise the point I get called "judgemental.")

 

[Mario]

(However everytime I raise the point I get called "judgemental.")

Not by me. I'm with you all the way!

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

Vintage Lover: Ah, but common sense isn't so common anymore. The funny part is that he than tried to; get up/ pull up his pants/ cross the street, at the same time. It didn't work.

lol

Sorry...but that's just bad. One would think the trip from the baggy pants would have taught him something...

[huh]