My Pet Peeve

[Lolabelle]

After going to the service station and having to endure standing behind a young girl/woman with a low riding skirt and a high riding G-string (bending over the lollie counter), I started thinking about the change in fashion. I am fairly up to date with clothing, I like lots of the "IN" gear, but this business of wearing your jeans so low that your boxers or undies are a foot above the waiste band is a bit beyond me. I would like to know how they (talking boys here) manage to wear their jeans below the bottom and the boxers up under the armpits and keep everything up! And as for the girls (with quite nice figures) wearing tops above the belly button and jeans or skirts barely above the pubic bone with a floppy ring of belly hanging over the jeans/skirt, and then the G-string in between???
Not a good look in either case :eek:

Any one out there able to enlighten me on how the boys manage this gravity defying stunt with their clothing?[lol]

[ber219]

God only knows how they keep them up but however they do it may i be the first one to say it looks daft. I guess im just getting too old?!

[huh]

Nah man I'm 19 and I agree that it's silly.

[emb123]

It doesn't seem to be quite so fashionable here in Bettyhill - probably because it would get a bit draughty.

Mind you in Virginia & Louisiana in the USA they are getting quite uptight about it. I remember these articles from a while back

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6751777.stm (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6751777.stm)

US town set to ban saggy trousers

mayor in the US state of Louisiana says he will sign into law a proposal to make wearing saggy trousers an act of indecent exposure.

Delcambre town council unanimously passed the ordinance earlier this week making it a crime to wear trousers that show underwear.
"If you expose your private parts, you'll get a fine" of US$500 (£254) Mayor Carol Broussard said.
Offenders will also risk up to six months in jail.

Fashionable
Speaking of people who wear saggy trousers, Mr Broussard told the Associated Press news agency: "They're better off taking the pants off and just wearing a dress."

Town attorney Ted Ayo said the ordinance expands on the existing state indecent exposure law by adding underwear to the list of forbidden exposures.
"This is a new ordinance that deals specifically with sagging pants," Mr Ayo said. "It's about showing off your underwear in public."

Some residents say the ordinance targets blacks, as low-slung trousers are fashionable among hip hop fans.
Mr Broussard denied it was racially motivated.
"White people wear sagging pants, too," he said.





http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146886,00.html (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146886,00.html)ICHMOND, Va. — Virginians who wear their pants so low their underwear shows may want to think about investing in a stronger belt.
The state's House of Delegates passed a bill Tuesday authorizing a $50 fine for anyone who displays his or her underpants in a "lewd or indecent manner."
Del. Lionell Spruill Sr. (search (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:siteSearch%28%27Lionell%20Spruill%20Sr.%27%29 ;)), a Democrat who opposed the bill, had pleaded with his colleagues to remember their own youthful fashion follies.
During an extended monologue Monday, he talked about how they dressed or wore their hair in their teens. On Tuesday, he said the measure was an unconstitutional attack on young blacks that would force parents to take off work to accompany their children to court just for making a fashion statement.
"This is a foolish bill, Mr. Speaker, because it will hurt so many," Spruill said before the measure was approved 60-34. It now goes to the state Senate.
The bill's sponsor, Del. Algie T. Howell (search (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:siteSearch%28%27Algie%20T.%20Howell%27%29;)), has said constituents were offended by the exposed underwear. He did not speak on the floor Tuesday.
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[trix]

i ken fit ye mean lolabelle, a cpl o years ago i wis in s############horpe for a week an wis tryin on jeans in e changin rooms. iss lasie came oot wi a pair o jeans that wis...way too tight, all fat hingin oot e top, an a top that wis...way too little, all boobs hingin oot e bottom, askin her pal if she looked ok an her pal wis sayin aye, she looked gorgeous :eek:

she wisna even fat but she wisna as thin as she thot she wis. i felt lek sayin til her, 'sorry doll, but yer no a size 10, yer just...no!'

cumin fie a size 12 i didna think i wis bein at cheeky. i never said anything but i nearly gied her pal a talkin til when e lassie went til pay for her items.

i would kill ma mate if she done at til me...

an just for e record, i niver hev ma thoing hingin oot...! :lol:

[Margaret M.]

Last edited by trix : 09-Oct-07 at 00:28. Reason: spellin mistake!!

How could you tell? :)

[BRIE]

my son has a habit of wearing his jeans low, im always telling him to pull them up to the reply 'its the fashion mum!'
how does he keep them up? well hes forever hitching them up just enough to save them falling off!!:lol:

[Torvaig]

God only knows how they keep them up but however they do it may i be the first one to say it looks daft. I guess im just getting too old?!

Why do you think they go with their hands in their pockets most of the time? :lol:

[Fluff]

its very 'in' down here for the people who think they are living in a ghetto..

they normally walk with one hand very near to the trousers to pull them up.

It is SO funny when you see these idiots running to catch the bus/train trying so hard not to let the trousers fall down!

[connieb19]

i ken fit ye mean lolabelle, a cpl o years ago i wis in s############horpe for a week an wis tryin on jeans in e changin rooms. iss lasie came oot wi a pair o jeans that wis...way too tight, all fat hingin oot e top, an a top that wis...way too little, all boobs hingin oot e bottom, askin her pal if she looked ok an her pal wis sayin aye, she looked gorgeous

Did she have what's called a "muffin top"? :eek:


http://www.truejeans.com/img/Image/img742.jpg

[Bobinovich]

:eek: OMG I'll never eat a muffin again :eek:

[Julia]

'Muffin top' has officially been recognised as a dictionary word!

[connieb19]

Do people still say "spare tyre" or is it just "muffin top" now? :eek:

[Julia]

I usually think of spare tyres as being much bigger than muffin tops, an in-between size could be an american muffin top which is bigger than a 'normal' muffin but smaller than a spare tyre. :lol:

[Rheghead]

OK, if it's about pet peeves. Mine is being absolutely famished, buying a cheapo ready-meal, then pulling the 'Pull here to open tab' then have the tab just tear off in ye fingers leaving the food totally intact inside. There's nothin' worse!:~(

[Jeemag_USA]

I know where your coming from and having a 16 year old son myself and living in the USA, I have been through the whole sagging pants thing. I can tell you it only last for a few years and its just kids trying to exprees themselves in their own way, there comes a point where they suddenly realise, hey, I am not expressing myself, I am just doing what everyone else does, so they move on to something differrent.

When I was that age I was wearing Tartan bondage trousers with straps between the legs and 14 hole dr marten boots with anarchy signs on every part of my body, and probably was menacing looking to everyone except for the fact I was midget with a really cute baby face :P But I eneded up being a pretty nice considerate person.

It comes and it goes ;)

[Jeemag_USA]

OK, if it's about pet peeves. Mine is being absolutely famished, buying a cheapo ready-meal, then pulling the 'Pull here to open tab' then have the tab just tear off in ye fingers leaving the food totally intact inside. There's nothin' worse!:~(

AAAAAAAAAAAGH HA HA , if I had a pound for every time I did that, my favourite saying is, "What are pensioners supposed to do with this, your racked with arthritis and can't even open your food. It applies to TV dinners, milk cartons, pull ring canned foods and a host of other stuff. Its ridiculous. Its one thing trying to pull open a can of cat food, but having the fingernails to lift up the pull ring is another, let along slicing your finger off when it flies off after your struggle :P

The thing I hate is the way the package things like toys and computer good in plastic casing that is welded shut at the edges, the plastic is so thick you can make blades from it and even trying to open it with scissors or knives you run the risk of slicing yourself open!

[mccaugm]

my son has a habit of wearing his jeans low, im always telling him to pull them up to the reply 'its the fashion mum!'
how does he keep them up? well hes forever hitching them up just enough to save them falling off!!:lol:

Same here...my eldest feels that its essential that his jeans are tied round his backside and that half his boxers should show. I am sick of sewing the frayed ends of his jeans. He thinks this is OK. Grrr

My 13 year old luckily does not agree...and my toddlers jeans only fall down because his bottom is not big enough to hold them up...and I can never find a belt.:D