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Title: I know I am old but..
Post by: 38thBeatle on October 01, 2009, 06:36:20 AM
Without wishing to sound too ancient and also trying to avoid a "young people these days etc etc" but can anyone explain the fashion statement being made by wearing one's trousers so low that one has difficulty on walking. Dress down day at work is amusing with all the young gents waddling in. One of my colleagues said to one of them "Hey Robbie, you look like you have a nappy on" and I asked one if he was going out to catch some fish at lunchtime. OK so it is the fashion but who the hell thought of it? What does it mean? 
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: MrBump on October 01, 2009, 06:50:15 AM
I don't get it either.  I used to hang about with some "younger" people, who claimed it was more comfortable.

Can't see it myself.  In my youth we were mortified if anyone saw our pants...

Mark.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: TheIronBeast on October 01, 2009, 08:51:25 AM
A lot of young people dress like that around here too. It baffles me every time I see it, it really looks like they are struggling to walk but they still insist on wearing their trousers like that? That is one fashion I don't think I'll ever understand.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: AndyR on October 01, 2009, 09:08:45 AM
Yep, I'm in the same boat as you other "oldies", I just don't understand what the appeal is, I do not get it.... and how on earth do they stay up?!!

However, I look at it and think, well, no sweat, you do want you want boys... it just makes me look cooler in my "man's" trousers... :lol:

(OK yeah, mebbe I'm a bit delusional... but it works for me!)
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Will on October 01, 2009, 09:34:26 AM
Just pull them down and walk off. It pisses me off too.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Ratrod on October 01, 2009, 10:35:53 AM
Kids in ghettos used to wear hand-me-downs from their older brothers. Ofcourse those trousers were way too big. But at some point ghetto became cool and it became a fashion statement. Next someone got the idea they could show the brand name of their underwear this way.

It's a bit like the torn jeans in the eighties.

How the hell are you gonna stay out of jail wearing those thing? You can't run from the cops dressed like that.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: _tom_ on October 01, 2009, 10:38:13 AM
Baggy trousers went out of fashion ages ago, I thought. It seems to be all about the ball-hugging tight ones at the minute.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Philly Q on October 01, 2009, 10:59:18 AM
I'm as baffled as everyone else.  Sometimes people have them so low that the actual "bulbous bit" (to borrow a Roo expression) of their arse is hanging out of their trousers.  Which, frankly, they should be arrested for.  :x

Baggy trousers went out of fashion ages ago, I thought. It seems to be all about the ball-hugging tight ones at the minute.

But even those seem to be worn really low sometimes!

They seem to have actually started manufacturing jeans with a dropped waist and the pockets further down to make it look like you're wearing them low-slung.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: bucketshred on October 01, 2009, 11:03:16 AM
My drummer and his mates are all bar-stewards for the 'tight jeans with arse hanging out' look. I wear fairly skinny jeans fair low but NEVER like that! It's just fashion atm and a lot of the most ridiculous ones are coming from the metal scene, particularly the kids who are into BMTH, Carnifex, Annotations of an Autopsy, Suicide Silence etc

Paddy
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Nadz1lla on October 01, 2009, 11:04:56 AM
Baffles me too, they say it's comfy but I would just feel awkward having that much of my arse out of my trousers. :?

Don't worry, it's not an "age" thing, it really baffles a lot of younger people too.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Will on October 01, 2009, 12:16:36 PM
Torn jeans have gone out of fashion?!
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Ted 'N' Leo on October 01, 2009, 12:48:44 PM
Torn jeans have gone out of fashion?!

Next they'll be saying flares are out of fashion too!
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Jonny on October 01, 2009, 02:06:00 PM
They annoy me too, well not annoy me, but if they want to display their low IQ then they're asking for a bashing or two.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: nfe on October 01, 2009, 02:35:43 PM
You know what's really great?

They all come into music shops, you know, the whole band, with matching low trousers and flesh tunnels, plus a smattering of dreadful slam-death or death-core shirts.

Then they ask for a shot of whatever Jackson or Ibanez.

Then they sit on a stool and bare their arse to the world whilst playing djun-djun-djun-weee-djun-djun-weeee!
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Prawnik on October 01, 2009, 03:12:17 PM
I guess "great" is a matter of opinion. :(
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Post by: CaptainDesslock on October 01, 2009, 03:22:18 PM
You know what's really great?

They all come into music shops, you know, the whole band, with matching low trousers and flesh tunnels, plus a smattering of dreadful slam-death or death-core shirts.

Then they ask for a shot of whatever Jackson or Ibanez.

Then they sit on a stool and bare their arse to the world whilst playing djun-djun-djun-weee-djun-djun-weeee!

Wow nfe, you just made made my day :)
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: sgmypod on October 01, 2009, 04:14:47 PM
Yeah was a load in a guitar shop the other day admiring how much weeeeee noises there mate could make on a pointy guitar with flames on...could make it scream in one the most unatural and unmusical ways...damn I'm old
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Nadz1lla on October 01, 2009, 04:43:58 PM
Then they sit on a stool and bare their arse to the world whilst playing djun-djun-djun-weee-djun-djun-weeee!

Should have asked them to leave, stating that "due to our anti-drug policies, you can't bring Crack into our establishment. Kindly leave."  :lol:
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: 38thBeatle on October 01, 2009, 07:15:55 PM
Thanks guys I feel better knowing that I ma not the only one who thinks that look so stupid.He ho, tomorrow is dress down day-attack of the penguintards.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Philly Q on October 01, 2009, 10:49:06 PM
Thanks guys I feel better knowing that I ma not the only one who thinks that look so stupid.He ho, tomorrow is dress down day-attack of the penguintards.

Jeans 4 Genes?
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Ian Price on October 01, 2009, 10:58:01 PM
I'm as baffled as everyone else.  Sometimes people have them so low that the actual "bulbous bit" (to borrow a Roo expression) of their arse is hanging out of their trousers.  Which, frankly, they should be arrested for.  :x

They seem to have actually started manufacturing jeans with a dropped waist and the pockets further down to make it look like you're wearing them low-slung.

There was a guy in my local Sainsburys with his slung low in this style. It does look very silly indeed. He did have a very nice looking girl with him though. I really don't understand why. He had the low slung jeans, a hooded top, hair pulled over his face, those stupid earlobe 'ear rings' (sorry if anyone on here has these) and a permanent vacant expression.

And yes, I believe they do manufacture them in that way (the jeans, not the kidz).
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: JDC on October 01, 2009, 11:07:02 PM
Then they sit on a stool and bare their arse to the world whilst playing djun-djun-djun-weee-djun-djun-weeee!

was the weeeeeeeeee, weeeeeee any good? or was it the sloppy I don't know how to mute my low E kind? with lack of knowledge of sweet spots?

scene kids are funny, lets justify the whole of our existence on the fashion trends of our music subculture, we ain't got herd mentality, honest!!!
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Afghan Dave on October 01, 2009, 11:09:01 PM
The dumb motherf**kers can only usually communicate using "txtspk" ....

I'm off to re-read the Daily Mail and grumble about A level grades...  :shock: :( :( :(
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Tellboy on October 02, 2009, 07:42:22 PM
I've noticed that those who just pull their standard jeans down low usually end up with the bottoms dragging over the backs of their shoes which is sort of OK when it's good weather.....but recently when it was p***ing with rain the jeans act like blotting paper and they get saturated up to their knees  :orcass: :orcass: :orcass:
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: mikeluke on October 02, 2009, 07:49:38 PM
OK - let's take this off at a tangent - what was your worst fashion statement 'when you were young'?

I'll start it off with silver Doc Marten boots - took my 6 hole DMs, can of silver spray paint and..... guess the decade!


Mike
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Philly Q on October 02, 2009, 11:16:18 PM
I've noticed that those who just pull their standard jeans down low usually end up with the bottoms dragging over the backs of their shoes which is sort of OK when it's good weather.....but recently when it was p***ing with rain the jeans act like blotting paper and they get saturated up to their knees 

And the torn bits at the bottom drag around like masses of seaweed!


OK - let's take this off at a tangent - what was your worst fashion statement 'when you were young'?

I'll start it off with silver Doc Marten boots - took my 6 hole DMs, can of silver spray paint and..... guess the decade!

Mid-'70s?  Going for a Sweet/Slade/Suzi Quatro/Glitter Band look?

I never really attempted to follow fashion as such, but I was one of those late-'70s metal kids with a denim jacket with patches all over it.  I spent a whole summer embroidering ( :oops: ) the cover picture of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow on the back. 

I still have it and it looks extremely bloody good!   Probably one of my greatest ever achievements, TBH..... 

I also had a holey pair of jeans which I covered in patches of green and tan denim.  And I had really long, lank hair.  I like to think I looked like a young Jerry Cantrell (not that anyone had heard of him at that point).... but I was more like a miniature version of Neil from "The Young Ones".
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: camf on October 03, 2009, 12:26:11 AM
Man, I can't believe nobody is speaking up for the simple pleasures of a sweet breeze blowing down your ass crack... come on!
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Mr. Air on October 03, 2009, 09:24:56 AM
Can anyone post a picture of these low hanging jeans? I'm having a bit of trouble understanding exactly how low they hang. I wear my jeans fairly low, but not at the middle or even under the buttocks as some kinds do. That most be a cold experience.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Jonny on October 03, 2009, 10:02:12 AM
Can anyone post a picture of these low hanging jeans? I'm having a bit of trouble understanding exactly how low they hang. I wear my jeans fairly low, but not at the middle or even under the buttocks as some kinds do. That most be a cold experience.
They don't low hang, just imagine your jeans are a bit big for you so you don't have to unbutton them to take them off, pull them down a bit so your underwear is showing and it's like around the crack of your ass (why am I even explaining this, it makes me sound weird..)

And since your ass is bigger than your waist (or sometimes not) it wouldn't fall any further and then you go into a guitar shop or just in general public and act like a $%&#ing rebellious tw@t who doesn't go home until next morning.

EDIT: Lol, I found this, just imagine the middle one is just in the middle of the 'buttocks':

EDIT: Some reason it won't pop up with img tags, so just follow the link:

EDIT: And since it has a shiteeee in it it adds another 'e' so take out the extra 'e' too :lol:

http://stylerepublik.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/this-shitee-is-too-much.jpg

EDIT: I've put too much effort in I think for a Saturday morning.. :P
(http://blurbit.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/low-jeans.jpg)
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Mr. Air on October 03, 2009, 10:26:25 AM
That's one gorgeous pic. Beats my "below the waist" sitting jeans by miles. Thanks Johnny. You've just made my Saturday morning  :lol:
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Ratrod on October 03, 2009, 06:36:04 PM
OK - let's take this off at a tangent - what was your worst fashion statement 'when you were young'?

The mullet.

Ofcourse combined with a denim jacket with studs and a big Guns n' roses patch on the back, skinny black jeans, black T-shirt with a lumber jack shirt if it's cold, basketball shoes and a PLO shawl.

Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Copperhead on October 03, 2009, 09:46:56 PM
You know what's really great?............... they sit on a stool and bare their arse

Best Straight Line Ever!!!!

must resist.....  :lol:
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: 38thBeatle on October 04, 2009, 08:29:14 AM
I dont think I have had any fashion disasters as I have never been remotely interested in fashion and cannot understand why fashion would be a reason enough to do anything. Having said all that, I once used to have a badge that I thought was funny, t'was in the shape of a biscuit and I used to wear it a lot.Embarrassing now because it is rather like telling the same joke over and over ( though that hasn't done some comedians any harm I suppose). I have had a few odd hairstyles various mullett phases in fact. Oh and I was one of those who wore a suit type jacket with jeans so that may qualify me- yeah I'll go with that.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Ian Price on October 04, 2009, 08:44:04 AM
I once wore a pair of chinos with a white shirt and brown waistcoat. That was pretty bad.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Philly Q on October 04, 2009, 06:00:52 PM
I once wore a pair of chinos with a white shirt and brown waistcoat. That was pretty bad.

Just the first bit there was bad enough....  :P

OK, I'd somehow blanked it from my mind but I did have a mullet for several years.... it was pretty much exactly like this one.... unfortunately:

(http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens5830272module45367632photo_1247264056rate_my_mullet.jpg)
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Post by: HTH AMPS on October 05, 2009, 12:24:20 AM
does this mean that my bellbottoms are 'out' ???  :lol:

seriously though, I do love my old-school flares and its a tw@t trying to find them in fat bar-steward sizes.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Afghan Dave on October 05, 2009, 02:46:51 AM
I once wore a pair of chinos with a white shirt and brown waistcoat. That was pretty bad.

Just the first bit there was bad enough....  :P

OK, I'd somehow blanked it from my mind but I did have a mullet for several years.... it was pretty much exactly like this one.... unfortunately:

(http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens5830272module45367632photo_1247264056rate_my_mullet.jpg)

Philly... Can you play the duelling banjos theme from deliverance? :? 
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Philly Q on October 05, 2009, 08:09:15 AM
Sadly not....

I only had the hair, not the facial (or body) fungus.  Didn't have the pickup truck either.  Or the oversized Colt Seavers mouth ornament.

But... there was a transcription of Dueling Banjos in Guitar World recently.  I could try to learn it.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: mikeluke on October 05, 2009, 09:36:13 AM
Phil

I am afraid just even THINKING about that image of you with a mullet like that...

"You ain't from around these parts, is yer boy?"
"But yer sure have a pretty mouth...."

Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Ratrod on October 05, 2009, 11:21:45 AM
"We don't take too kindly to strangers."


"Thur tuk ur jubs!"


Sorry. I couldn't resist.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: AndyR on October 05, 2009, 11:29:40 AM
That Philly were a good looking lad when he were younger, weren't he chaps? :lol:
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Post by: indysmith on October 05, 2009, 06:53:46 PM
(http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr1y4ixNda1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
lol
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: mikeluke on October 05, 2009, 08:06:05 PM
I'd love to see him try running for the bus....
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Ian Price on October 05, 2009, 08:31:59 PM
(http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr1y4ixNda1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
lol

I'm not quite sure what is going on in this one. Either he has a very long body or very short legs (or both). Those jeans are the lowest I've seen yet. Maybe he's got a midget up his shirt (or it has been photoshopped)
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: tomjackson on October 05, 2009, 09:30:04 PM
I used to sport a paisly hooded top, Manc bowl head and flares made by inserting large triangles of some other paisly material into the seems. 

Still think it was better than trousers round the arse or (sorry Ian) Chinos and a wastcoat.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: murraymurray on October 06, 2009, 12:52:53 AM
reminds me of something i read in the paper recently. some guy down these ways just got let out of the cells then tried to break into a car in the police station parking lot, got noticed, tried to do a runner, his pants fell down and tripped him up and he was taken back in after about 1 minute of freedom
one of the rare occasions that i actually lol'd from reading
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Johnny Mac on October 10, 2009, 01:13:03 PM
There's a group on facebook called 'pull your f*cking trousers up' and according to some posts in there this fashion disaster came about from L.A gang members in prisons who had their belts conviscated. Their trousers would fall down with there y fronts hanging out. So all the silly sods who look up to these idiots would copy them. Then it went global. There's a lot of copying of this L.A gang stuff now, the hand shapes, the talk. I hate it.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Ratrod on October 10, 2009, 03:55:39 PM
There's a lot of copying of this L.A gang stuff now, the hand shapes, the talk. I hate it.

Word!

Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Copperhead on October 10, 2009, 04:52:15 PM
Fo'shizzle!
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: HTH AMPS on October 10, 2009, 05:32:34 PM
yo shite is whack
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Post by: Philly Q on October 11, 2009, 02:02:43 AM
Steady on now, you chaps.
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Post by: MrBump on October 11, 2009, 08:27:42 AM
Mos' def'.
Title: Re: I know I am old but..
Post by: Elliot on October 11, 2009, 10:35:24 AM
It all originates from rent-boys in American ghettos - the low trousers meant that they were available for hire - which shows - all young people these days are fags  :D