Droopy jeans no different than droopy tops

[Cronus Protagonist]

A woman shows tons of cleavage - no problem. A guy shows underwear, maybe the outline of butt-cleavage and he's arrestable. What's wrong with this picture? I think men should be equally able to show as much butt crack as they want, bare-ass if you like, as women are allowed to show tit cleavage. No more, no less.

We must end this inequality!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. It's no different than the "ten commandments of rock and roll"

from that other thread.

Just a bunch of dumb prudes not minding their own business.

Fuck 'em.

[tridim]

2. I think we should outlaw all clothing.

Might as well go all the way.

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. I'm against outlawing anything of the sort

I wanted less restrictions, not more.

[Warpy]

14. The outside temperature is in the 30s here

Plus, I'm way beyond the "show us your pink bits!" and well into the "Ferkrissakes, lady, cover it up!" stage.

Your suggestion takes into account neither weather nor age.

[Bluzmann57]

19. Of course, it's around 7 degrees outside at this time

So if clothing is outlawed, well it'll be sort of uncomfortable to say the least. But hey, if a law is passed outlawing clothing... We must obey the law. Rule of law and all that type of thing you know.

[Raine]

33. UGH naked is just not

a good look on some people. :puke:

[Stop Cornyn]

4. Simple netiquette requires that you include links to pictures if you're gonna post such a topic

[Cronus Protagonist]

20. Here ya go :P

Maybe he should pull them up an inch or two, but you get the picture :P

[zorahopkins]

47. But....Butt.....

Butt....that's really the end.

That pic almost makes me crack up.

He'll likely go through life by the seat of his pants.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

5. The laws prohibiting baggy pants are an (admittedly stupid) attempt to combat gang activity. nt

[Cronus Protagonist]

6. Then perhaps the proponents should also outlaw tit cleavage

To help prevent prostitution.

:P

[RedCappedBandit]

9. Just proof that politicians are out of touch.

[Purveyor]

15. A 'fashion expert' I heard talking on the TV a few weeks ago said this fad was just about over until

the politicians started passing laws to restrict 'sagging'.

Now he says, its back bigger than ever.

If the teens really wanted to piss off the 'prudes' they will bring back 'form-fitting' spandex that leaves little to the imagination.

[Cronus Protagonist]

22. In downtown LA you can buy jeans with underwear attached!

A local designer has them in the window on 5th and Broadway. I wish I had a pic of them. They look like you're sagging jeans and showing off boxers but the boxers are actually the top part of the jeans and have jean material underneath! They look way cool :P

[NewJeffCT]

25. A few years back, "see through" skirts were popular in Japan

It looked like you could see through a sheer skirt and see the woman's panties... but, it was really a design sewn onto/into the skirt that made it look like you were seeing through something sheer.

[Captain Hilts]

7. I don't want to see either. nt

[RedCappedBandit]

11. So ignore it. nt

[Captain Hilts]

36. Hard to when it's right at eye level in a restaurant or in public. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

40. Then stay at home.

[rucky]

8. Now here's a cause I can get behind!

Plumbers of the world, unite!

[Whoa_Nelly]

10. Read somewhere that droopy jeans is the "jail look"

meaning that prisoners have their belts taken away, and the result is drooping pants. And, over the last many years that this has been a teen look, (and some adults now, too), many places/people associate it with gangs.

But, I really don't know :shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Yeah, I've heard that.

Sounds like something made up to disparage kids who dress that way.

[Whoa_Nelly]

27. As usual, Snopes has an answer :-)

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

[Captain Hilts]

37. When you are arrested, they take your belt away. Hence, the sagging pants. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

43. They've never taken my belt away when I've gotten arrested.

They might take it away inmates in order to prevent suicide. But that's got nothing to do with arrests. Or the fashion among kids. The more logical explanation for the fashion is because it's cool, and it pisses off old farts.

[Horse with no Name]

12. Who'll think of the plumbers?????

We must think of the plumbers.

[CJCRANE]

16. Droopy doesn't wear jeans!

[Quantess]

17. This looks like Pure Lounge Material.

Was it really necessary to begin a new thread? How about simply posting this as a response to the original thread, which only has 13 posts right now?

[Cronus Protagonist]

24. Too racy for the lounge

And too meaty for some other thread.

[Chovexani]

18. This isn't about gender, it's about race

These "droopy pants" laws that are cropping up are nothing more than yet another way to speciously lock up black folk.

Obviously blacks are not nearly the only people walking around in baggy jeans and not all of us do (I don't for one thing--I am not into hip hop at all and think the fashion looks stupid and unflattering) but in the minds of the simple jackasses who make these laws, baggy pants = thug = n*****.

[Cronus Protagonist]

34. I think you're onto something

After all, one needs a nice round firm ass to be able to hang weighty jeans off it and not have them fall down to the ankles! Clearly whities have less of a chance of getting caught with their pants hanging off due to them having less butt cleavage! :P

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

21. Here's a relevant MSNBC news piece from September...

Wow, I used the word "relevant" and MSNBC in the same sentence -- something seems very wrong with that.

---snip---

The bare-your-britches fashion is believed to have started in prisons, where inmates aren't given belts with their baggy uniform pants to prevent hangings and beatings. By the late ’80s, the trend had made it to gangster rap videos, then went on to skateboarders in the suburbs and high school hallways.

"For young people, it's a form of rebellion and identity," Adrian "Easy A.D." Harris, 43, a founding member of the Bronx's legendary rap group Cold Crush Brothers. "The young people think it's fashionable. They don't think it's negative."

But for those who want to stop them see it as an indecent, sloppy trend that is a bad influence on children.

"It has the potential to catch on with elementary school kids, and we want to stop it before it gets there," said C.T. Martin, an Atlanta councilman. "Teachers have raised questions about what a distraction it is."...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20817735/

Scroll about half way down there's a poll sampling public opinion.

[Traveling_Home]

23. Anybody ever see ......

someone trying to run in a pair of droppy drawers. Has to be a prude isssue not a gang or race issue. If it was a gang issue they'd make everyone where droppies.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

26. cleavage is next to godliness

as for crack exposing pants I guess it depends (bad choice of words) who wears them.

[Cronus Protagonist]

32. I feel the same way about toe cleavage

Some people look good in shoes with short uppers, but others I surely don't want to see. But do I want to legislate against toe cleavage? I think not :P

[malaise]

28. It's disgusting

I hate the droopy jeans but I'm not telling others what to wear.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

29. Test your police detective IQ...

...Can you spot the criminal?

[Cronus Protagonist]

30. Well, the top two look damn good, but the last one is clearly a misanthrope

After all, he's totally BEAR!

:P

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

31. Indeed he is...

...but it looks like he's hiding a gun in the shadows.

[Fire Walk With Me]

44. The first item. At least according to Disney after they shoved their thingie into Pixar...

1989's "Knick-Knack" before and after Disney:



I cringe to think of what they'll do to this current rash of PlumberButt.

[slackmaster]

35. Butt cleavage, even on an attractive female, has ZERO appeal for me

Heteroxexual man speaking on behalf of myself.

I often feel like telling young women with very low-cut jeans to wear a belt, but there is no polite way to say something like that to a stranger.

Man-butt cleavage is just plain revolting.

[rAVES]

38. Pull your dam pants up fer christ sake! pants like that would get ya killed in Nam...

[Cronus Protagonist]

39. Namibia? Nam...?

You couldn't be referring to Viet Nam in a thread about butt cleavage, could you?!

[rAVES]

41. A good soldier never has his ass crack hanging out.

on duty.

grow up with a father like mine and believe me.. Nam can come up in any discussion...


he wasn't even there...

[Dawggie]

42. Yeah! And what about women showing faces, figures and ankles?

And eating with your left hand! They all must be jailed!

:sarcasm:

[OnionPatch]

45. Laws telling us what to wear

are sickening, all of them. I think baggy pants are the stupidest fashion statement I've ever seen, the shorts especially make me laugh....it looks like they're wearing a pair of culottes! But, yes, this is an inequality, I agree.

[horsewithnoname]

46. its just racism

They are out to get the black man, and will stop at nothing to do it.
I am sure that they don't arrest "nice white upstanding republican trust fund babies from the suburbs" who are wearing their pants a little low. Even though those same white kids are the ones who commit the most crimes but just dont get caught.