… but apparently it is not. With winter came a false sense of security. Colder weather, heavy winter coats, boots, sweaters, all was right with the world.
Or so I thought. Spring has arrived, and people have begun wearing lighter clothing. Short jackets. T-shirts. And so, I have but one request:
Could everyone please just pull up their damn pants?
I don’t care that it’s “only” -2C today. This does not mean that I want to see your whale-tail, your tramp stamp, or your muffin top. I really don’t. Nor do I want to see your boxers, if you are male.
I had thought that that whole part of fashion was on its way out. Apparently I live in the backwoods, where fashion is five years behind everywhere else. The whole ridiculous jeans-belted-below-the-ass thing? Well guess what? It’s not limited to just jeans anymore. My husband and I were filling the car with gas the other day, when a passel of teenage (about 12, 13 years old) boys walked by. Most of them were either wearing the new trend, skinny jeans (which do not look particularly comfortable to me but at least for the most part I’m not in danger of seeing anyone’s butt) or were sporting the old-school “saggin’” look. One of them had even managed to combine the two, belting his skinny jeans below his ass so that his tighty-whities were in full view (not sure if this was intentional, but… there it was). But my absolute favourite, the one that made me chortle loudly before getting hold of myself, was the one young man in the bunch who obviously wanted to fit in, but for some reason (laundry not done, or just couldn’t afford them, who knows) wasn’t able to find himself any jeans that morning. Instead, he was rockin’ a pair of black nylon track pants.
Belted.
Below his ass.
Now, to finish off this curmudgeonly (if someone had ragged on my Edwin jeans and slouch socks back in the day I’d have thought they were terrible, too) post, I will leave you with the definitive hip-hop jeans celebration:
Dude, I’m sorry I’m doing the whole sagging look but my jeans are just too big and I don’t have a belt yet. I’m workin’ on it.
I could just gain back the weight…? Nah. Think I’ll just buy that belt.
DJ! Get yourself a piece of rope and go all Ellie Mae Clampett-stylee!
LOL – YES! I will git me a rope – brilliant!
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