What's with those guys wearing the pants 10 sizes too big with thier butts hangin' out?!

It's freakin' everywhere! I don't get it. It's stupid. I see them holding up their pants all the time, miles of fabric. A few days ago, I was in line at a buffet, when I heard a loud CRASH! I turned and saw this gangsta wannabe kid holding his gigantic pants up with one hand trying to smoothly pick up his tray! They can't function in those pants. I have literally seen some kids with their ENTIRE backsides hanging out, covered in boxers, mind you, and even wearing belts! But what's the point? At what point does the fashion statement "I'm an idiot who can't get functional clothes to fit me" become desirable? Is it just that these kids are so dumbly, blindly following some inside joke of the fashion industry? I mean, come on, this can't be real! I'm seeing a handful of fashion big-wigs drunkenly placing a bet against the drunkest one at the table that he can't make a million selling this crap! HA!

Ok, that's my rant. Take it up if you want. Oh, and if you are offended by this post, go ahead, make it known that you fell for the biggest fashion joke of the century. I dare ya!

I've done martial arts for years, and my teacher was a prison guard at a maximum security prison. So the story goes, as he says, is that it originated in jails and is a sexual reference more than a fashion statement.

That being said, those of us walking around among everyone else are not in jail, so I don't particularly understand this trend either, but whatever makes them happy, who are we to pass judgment? They probably say the same thing when they see me wearing fitted khakis and button up shirts and heels all the time.

Well, I don't know how old you are.  What I can say is back in the early 70's when I was wearing dirty white sneakers and torn blue jeans, my parents said, basically what you're saying about the kids wearing those clothes.  It's generational.  

And if that is the worst these kids are doing, be grateful.

btw-my son wears those pants, and I've learned to just accept it.  Like I said in my day, in your day our clothes were though t to be weird, too.

I think they look totally ridiculous.  I am not sure how it evolved to be a "cool" look while struggling to hold your pants up.

By the same token, like oneis2many said, if that is the very worst of their sins, so be it.  You have to pick your battles.  My daughter wanted to dye her hair a burgundy-like color, and she is a great kid who gives me no trouble, so I said go ahead.  My son recently got a crew cut with a horrid design in it and I just sighed.

Well, it's impractical.  I doubt you are handicapped in your stride or ability to use your hands by your fitted khakis. 

So, then, are you saying it's a declaration of being heterosexual?  If so, to exert so much energy to make that declaration public is certainly cause to question why so paranoid about it? Actually, it seems that it would be a declaration that you re gay.  I mean, their rears are hanging out!

Ok, to be clear, just know that I am picking on people who wear these pants.  C'mon, it's silly to have your rear hanging out and not be able to walk or use your hands because you have to hold your pants up, despite wearing a belt!  Those Hammer-pants from the 80's with the long crotch were silly too and we made terrible fun of those! Humans can be so silly.  I am going to laugh at them and I am going to enjoy it. 

I think the baggy pants trend is stupid and certainly not sexy. I'd have to say that the earth shoes of the 70's, and the polyester pants of the 80's were uglier.

You are all making a viable argument except for one thing... the pants are creating a physical handicap.  As silly as I must have looked in 1980 wearing my red spandex pants with a bandanna tied around my thigh it did not impede my physical mobility.  This is more than just silly-looking.  I think, in my honest, humble opinion, that if your fashion choices impede upon your bodily ability to function, common sense, dare I say, intelligence, comes into question.  If it's a fashion trend perpetuated by the corporation(s) who are selling them, then the consumers of said products are just consuming mindlessly without regard for practicality.  Even when I was a kid I wasn't so desperate to 'fit in' as to wear something that impeded my ability to function.  But then, I thought for myself.  Maybe that's the problem with kids now.  They are too misguided by rampant consumerism and not taught to think for themselves before trying to gain acceptance by the status quo.  If it's a matter of making a sexual preference declaration, like "I'm not gay", then it's fear-based, which is actually homophobic, and thereby, ridiculous.  Oh, and btw, it's not just kids wearing them.  It's adult men too.  And in case you're wondering, I'm not a worried mother.  I don't have any kids.  I just see it all over the place. 

Original Post by yachtracer1977:

I've always wondered how they stay up ... honestly. I mean ... some of them totally look like the boxers are sewn in or something!

I mean ... really?

Yea, it's kinda weird, eh?  I wouldn't think that boxers could hold that much denim up.  I think they just have to pull 'em up very now & then.  I see them do it a lot. 

Did you really think you'd get such passionate replies-and so fast?

I understand where you coming from, honestly, I do. 

Like I said, each generation had their own style. 

And if you want to talk about impracticality, how about the zoot suites of the 40's.

i think it's hilarious. those boys wear pants that are several sizes too big, while their female counterparts are wearing pants several sizes too small!

I know the cops love them because the people who wear them are easy to catch when they trip over their own pants.

My brother wears his low like that. Not in a 'gangsta' way but in a scruffy-arty-has-a-beard way. Plus he has silly boxers with goldfish or frogs or cowboys or some other random thing printed all over them hanging out the back.

Makes laugh that when he comes to visit us my mum is alway coming up behind him & hoiking them up.

I hate how they're wearing belts to hole them up still but they're around they're legs... stupid!!

I teach in a building, where if it weren't for the dress code, I would be stuck looking at teenage-boxer-short- butt waddling down the hallways every second.  And yes, WADDLING.  With our dress code, we have started telling kids "if you are sitting on your belt, it is NOT at your waist".  My least favorite are the kids who walk with their hand half grabbing themselves because that is the only way to stop them from falling off.   They kind of look like they are doing the potty dance.   I tend to mimic the penguin walk in order to get them to hike 'em up.  I have asked why and they all said "it looks good". The funniest part, I ask my girls if they like when the guys dress like this.  They don't.  So, I am not sure who they think they are looking "good" for.

Rest assured, they grow out of it. 12 years ago I dated a boy who had his belt buckled below his butt - he eventually realised that it was far easier to walk when you use your rear to hold up your pants. It only took him 6 years to figure it out... :|

I think they look ridiculous, too.  And I completely agree about the difference between "fashion statement" and "utterly impractical."  My mother-in-law, who is a hoot, talks about how all these boys will end up with major hip problems in their old age from the way that they splay their legs to try and keep up their pants.  Really, she's right.  It can't be good on your joints to walk that way.

And like post #10, I think it's nuts that the boys are wearing pants so crazy big while the girls are wearing pants so tight they must cut off circulation.  Fashion is so bizarre!

Yeah, I've heard the prison thing too although I don't know what it's supposed to mean.  I think, if you are displaying your rear end to the world, it must mean you want the other prison guys to look at your ass....   So I guess all these boys are really broadcasting that they are gay!!?? 

What!?!

You all don't think it's drop dead sexy, especially when it comes with an urban gangsta lexicon dripping from a suburban white boy's tongue? 

Huh, me either.