A stupid law

[SweetPrettyAss]

that deserves to be overturned.

I have to agree with the judge and the public defender on this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26759466/from/ET/?gt1=43001

Although I consider the style to be gross, it shouldn't be illegal. If being gross was illegal, think of the golfers in lime or orange pants who would be arrested.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

that deserves to be overturned.

I have to agree with the judge and the public defender on this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26759466/from/ET/?gt1=43001

Although I consider the style to be gross, it shouldn't be illegal. If being gross was illegal, think of the golfers in lime or orange pants who would be arrested.

What baggy pants really need is derision. Sooner or later, getting laughed at really gets to teenagers.

 

[Corylea]

Yep. Why not just have us all wear uniforms? Mao jackets, anyone? Let's not go there.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Hey, I like uniforms. Makes getting dressed in the dark a lot easier.

 

[Corylea]

Hey, I like uniforms. Makes getting dressed in the dark a lot easier.

*laugh* But your uniform wouldn't work for all of us! I get hot absurdly easily, and I'd die in a bear suit.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

*laugh* But your uniform wouldn't work for all of us! I get hot absurdly easily, and I'd die in a bear suit.

Well, if it's that hot, you could wear just the Panama . . . http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/horny.gif

 

[Safe_Bet]

Yep. Why not just have us all wear uniforms? Mao jackets, anyone? Let's not go there.

No, certain things SHOULD be outlawed.

I don't care about the kids - it's the 50 something year old guy, with pot belly, that dresses like that AND thinks he looks cool. The clothes don't bother me - it the lack of fashion sense that's a crime!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

No, certain things SHOULD be outlawed.

I don't care about the kids - it's the 50 something year old guy, with pot belly, that dresses like that AND thinks he looks cool. The clothes don't bother me - it the lack of fashion sense that's a crime!

And then drives a BMW sports car! http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/9.gif

 

[Corylea]

When I met my husband, he firmly believed that any solid color goes with any other solid color. I know, because he told me this when I asked him if he really did plan to leave the house wearing orange and burgandy together. Whew. My eyeballs bled. He's partly colorblind, though, so to him, orange and burgandy look like they're pretty much the same color.

If you have laws requiring fashion sense, you'll have to have ADA provisions for the disabled.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

When I met my husband, he firmly believed that any solid color goes with any other solid color. I know, because he told me this when I asked him if he really did plan to leave the house wearing orange and burgandy together. Whew. My eyeballs bled. He's partly colorblind, though, so to him, orange and burgandy look like they're pretty much the same color.

If you have laws requiring fashion sense, you'll have to have ADA provisions for the disabled.

I went to college with a guy who, though he had perfect pitch, could only see the color blue. His mother sent him to the dormitories with all his clothes taged into compatible groups.

 

[TE999]

Twas ever thus when it comes to teen fashions. *sigh*

DA hairdos, t-shirts, jeans and boots were a sure sign of teen depravity in the 50's.

Sixties fashions (and mores) absolutely outrageous to adults of the period.

So on and so on. Every generation has it's own fashions, deal with it.

Remember, the youth of the sixties and seventies are now the stodgy adults of the 00's.

Don't get me started on music!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Twas ever thus when it comes to teen fashions. *sigh*

DA hairdos, t-shirts, jeans and boots were a sure sign of teen depravity in the 50's.

Sixties fashions (and mores) absolutely outrageous to adults of the period.

So on and so on. Every generation has it's own fashions, deal with it.

Remember, the youth of the sixties and seventies are now the stodgy adults of the 00's.

Don't get me started on music!

Back when I was in grad school, it always amazed me that the then-current generation of undergrads did most of their grooving to their parents' music. Really odd, I thought.

 

[kromen]

Origin

Explain the origins of saggy pants and the trend may stop. I use to wear my adidas without shoelaces (RUN-DMC made it cool and i was 13 at the time) and pants with no belt till my father told me about when he was a corrections officer at Rikers Island.

The first things they take from you when you get processed if your shoelaces and belts because they don't want you to kill yourself. Most inmates get so used to being in jail that they can't change their habits on the outside.

Then there were the "boys" that would love to let those waistbands hang low as a way to let everyone know "I love a hard cock in the ass for a cig or two."

I wear my pants hitched up like a Florida retiree.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Explain the origins of saggy pants and the trend may stop. I use to wear my adidas without shoelaces (RUN-DMC made it cool and i was 13 at the time) and pants with no belt till my father told me about when he was a corrections officer at Rikers Island.

The first things they take from you when you get processed if your shoelaces and belts because they don't want you to kill yourself. Most inmates get so used to being in jail that they can't change their habits on the outside.

Then there were the "boys" that would love to let those waistbands hang low as a way to let everyone know "I love a hard cock in the ass for a cig or two."

I wear my pants hitched up like a Florida retiree.

We could put that on a poster and hang them all over the local high schools . . .


ROFL

 

[sutherngent985]

Twas ever thus when it comes to teen fashions. *sigh*

DA hairdos, t-shirts, jeans and boots were a sure sign of teen depravity in the 50's.

Sixties fashions (and mores) absolutely outrageous to adults of the period.

So on and so on. Every generation has it's own fashions, deal with it.

Remember, the youth of the sixties and seventies are now the stodgy adults of the 00's.

Don't get me started on music!

OMG remember the 70s? Army jackets, leisure suits, double knit pants with nylon shirts and lets not even go into the shoes guys wore. But, of course, we all thought we were the height of fashion splendor. I just wish someone could explain to me what the big thing about boxers and Bermuda shorts is now...I thought Bermuda shorts went out 40 yrs ago. If they start wearing black socks and wingtips with them Im really gonna hate it.

And yea...I told my oldest if I ever saw him going around with his pants around the bottom of his butt, I was gonna give him a wedgie he would never forget LOL. But yea I agree pants hanging below the ass SHOULD be banned in public. We may have drove our parents to distraction as kids with what we wore, but at least we were dressed, not half naked.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I thought Bermuda shorts went out 40 yrs ago. If they start wearing black socks and wingtips with them Im really gonna hate it.

Uh, Suthern . . . do you live outside a large urban area, perhaps? Black sox with shorts is the very mark of Hip out here on the Left Coast. Can you imagine? An entire generation of twits!

 

[SeaCat]

Well take it from me. When this all came out most of the people around here were laughing our collective asses off.

Rumor had it he just wanted to ban something to prove to his people he was doing something to beautify his town.

At first he wanted to Ban Blue Rinse, but he was afraid he would get run off the road by Grandma Moses in her Buick.

Then he wanted to ban drugs, but the local police benevolent association informed him they wouldn't be getting their kickbacks, which meant the town wouldn't be getting it's kick backs.

Then he wanted to ban guns but was afraid he would get shot.

Then he wanted to ban illegal immigrants but realised half his town would be arrested.

Then he wanted to ban public flatulence but was afraid his speeches and sermons might be considered under this law.

Then he wanted to ban loud radios but he was concerned the kids would drown out his next speech.

Finally he hit upon the so called perfect plan. No one likes to see the underwear of young men. (Young women on the other hand seem to be exempt.) No one should complain about this law, and so it was passed.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

OMG remember the 70s? Army jackets, leisure suits, double knit pants with nylon shirts and lets not even go into the shoes guys wore. But, of course, we all thought we were the height of fashion splendor. I just wish someone could explain to me what the big thing about boxers and Bermuda shorts is now...I thought Bermuda shorts went out 40 yrs ago. If they start wearing black socks and wingtips with them Im really gonna hate it.

And yea...I told my oldest if I ever saw him going around with his pants around the bottom of his butt, I was gonna give him a wedgie he would never forget LOL. But yea I agree pants hanging below the ass SHOULD be banned in public. We may have drove our parents to distraction as kids with what we wore, but at least we were dressed, not half naked.

Here now, what's wrong with Field Jackets?

As for Bermuda's, well I haven't seen one in a long time. Cargo Shorts for me with a T-Shirt and either sandles or Flips.

I remember when my nephew came over to the house with his pants around his crotch. My father told him he didn't have a spare belt to loan him, but he did offer to staple them to his waist for him.

Cat

 

[SlickTony]

I think the kids must KNOW that the baggy-pants fashion originated in prison, but I don't think it has fazed them.

I remember the older generation fulminating about the clothes my contemporaries in the 60s and 70s wore just like people are fulminating about baggy pants now.

I'm sure that when these kids' kids and grandkids see old photos of them, they'll say whatever the future argot is for "Gah! You all dressed STUPID in those days!"

 

[kromen]

Note to self

Burn that multi-zippered Michael Jackson jacket hanging in the hall closet. NOW! LMAO

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I'm with the Cat. Field Jackets aren't anymore freak-hip than 501 Levi's. They're classics. I still have mine. Hell, I hunt in mine.

 

[3113]

Well, now waitaminute, waitaminute. We do outlaw nudity and that includes partial nudity. There are indecency laws which, whether you agree with them or not, are not thought of as "fashion police" laws even thought they essentially are. For example, I sincerely doubt I could go walking around downtown in a thong and pasties even if they are covering up the essential bits that would make me "decent" at a beach or strip club.

Why isn't it "fashion police" and not-laughable if I can be arrested for walking around in a thong and a pasties, but it is laughable or "fashion police" if we make a law that teens can show their underwear?

What I'm saying is, people have always had "decency" laws which are, in essence, fashion police laws. Why should this one--or one in certain countries mandating that women cover their shoulders or heads for that matter--be mocked with some "fashion police" label when those others are not? It isn't, as I read it, over-sized pants are legal, it's letting those pants sag low enough to flash the underwear that's illegal. If that's the case...why can't a city consider it indecent for a guy to flash his underwear in public?

Now, of course, this law should also include those guys who wear pants that end up showing off their butt cracks. So if someone wants to argue that there is discrimination going on because white guys showing off butt cracks aren't getting arrested, while minority teens flashing underwear are, then I'd certainly say there's something bias in the law and it was very wrong. But so far as I can tell, it's only wrong in the way that any indecency law is wrong--that is, it makes people cover up certain things that a majority finds indecent.

 

[SlickTony]

But if you go about having guys with their buttcracks showing arrested, who knows what might happen? Your kitchen water turned off and the pipes under your sink left in disarray, perhaps...

 

[Boxlicker101]

I think the kids must KNOW that the baggy-pants fashion originated in prison, but I don't think it has fazed them.

I remember the older generation fulminating about the clothes my contemporaries in the 60s and 70s wore just like people are fulminating about baggy pants now.

I'm sure that when these kids' kids and grandkids see old photos of them, they'll say whatever the future argot is for "Gah! You all dressed STUPID in those days!"

You might be right. It's kind of a gangsta hip thing.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

But if you go about having guys with their buttcracks showing arrested, who knows what might happen? Your kitchen water turned off and the pipes under your sink left in disarray, perhaps...

www.duluthtrading.com has an answer for that.