News BREAKING: Baggy-pants craze reaches Boston!
posted by May 4 at 10:36 AM
onFrom today’s Boston Globe…
Baggy-pants style not so cool with adults
Mostly teenagers—and mostly inspired by hip-hop or “goth” culture—they prefer baggy, so-low-they-almost-fall-down designer jeans, which are sometimes held up with belts, and sometimes kept in place by periodic yanks.Like belly, jewelry-jangling hip-huggers, or studded collars, saggy pants are a fashion statement.
By reading the the article in full, says Gawker…
You will also learn that: a) kids like to provoke their parents, b) parents forget that they were once kids, and c) sometimes these loose pants fall down. Oh, yeah, and d) the newspaper industry is fucked.
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I love Boston, but they've been a bit slow there since the whole tea party thing. After all, they have Denny Crane.
wait is it 97?
Kris Kross'll make ya....
@1: Obviously you've never experienced a Mooninite attack.
The Globe also does highly encouraging pieces every now and then about women doing "unusual" things. Like: "OMG, Chicks Who Play Drums, LOL!" and "Girls Who Hold The Door Open, ROFL!"
I've been wondering when that fashion trend would finally go away. Seriously, it's been in fashion since I was in high school. Maybe now that the Globe has picked up on it, the trend will finally die.
In other news, some women are wearing jeans with extremely low waistlines, known as "low-rise jeans". Those crazy kids, with their Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys and ! What will they do next?
All's I can say is, they better stay off'n my lawn, or there's gonna be TROUBLE.
It reminds me of the line in How I Met Your Mother:
"We didn't get the 80s in Canada until 1993."
I’m from Boston, & that’s actually not true about that trend being new--the big pants thing has been around in New England since at least the early 90s. The Globe is just notoriously slow on the uptake.
whatever it takes to stop it is fine with me. when the crotch is below your knees, you look like a fucking idiot. & the t-shirt dress over the top isn't helping.
i didn't get it in 1990. i ain't going to start getting it.
and i'm not about to start getting the baggy pants-to-wearing tom wolfe's suit transition that rappers undergo.
what's next, stovepipe hats like daniel day lewis in gangs of NY?
I love the thing about the 'Droopy-Drawers' bill in Virginia. God, Virginia is for Idiots. My grandma was a Flapper.
Hey did anyone notice that the sculpture at Westlake has a fence around it today, and none of those baggy-pants wearing street kids are sitting on it? ITS A MIRACLE!!!
Damn -- I was always proud of Bostonians dressing more up than down. Some level of formality, of self-respect. Last time I went back, everyone was wearing sweats and sweat jackets. Not even J-Lo style sweats; the kind you wear when you're at home doing your laundry.
I blame it on the non-native Bostonians (fuck off in advance - you know what I mean), they'll ruin the place yet.
A dumb article appears in Boston, New York (Gawker) rips on it--and finally it reaches Slog. The circle of life, or perhaps its downward spiral, once again makes a complete turn.
this "fashion" will never go away because it is not actually fashion. who the hell is anybody to impede on my comfort? baggy pants are really really comfortable and when worn along with the right sneakers (air jordans), they make your day so much better. seriously. I refuse to wear anything but baggy pants forever. if you want to squish your nuts and lower your sperm count by wearing tight jeans that smash your testicals into your thighs until they shrivel up and retreat and all you have is an empty nutsack, be my guest. but don't you ever give me dirty looks and hate on my baggy pants. At least IIII have nice healthy plump nuts while yours are all small and squished....
Baggy pants are the greatest. If you stand next to otherwise attractive people, say while they're waiting for the crosswalk light, and step on the puddle of pants on the ground, sometimes they will walk STRAIGHT OUT OF THEIR PANTS.
It's like a Christmas Miracle, I tells ya.
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