140-word-thought No.3: It’s still about the trousers
Sorry to go quiet. Head in a mess. Anyway, back to these because I’m sick of losing all my best thoughts to 140 characters on Twitter, so I’ve decided to try and have a 140 word thought at least once a day every so often on my blog.
I appreciate there are innumerable explanations for trousers pulled halfway down (/up?) legs. Signals of toughness, weight lost in jail, guns stuffed in trousietops.
I have never seen men with breeks slung so low. Watching another shuffle onto the bus, his belt around three inches above his knees, useless, his hand forced to hold them up anyway, I averted my eyes, for fear of laughing. You must not laugh. They look so completely idiotic, they MUST be terrifying. My only thought was:
a) Is the challenge to find a style SO STUPID that you look tough despite of of rather than because of it? What next when this passes? A nice polkadot dress? Gangsta y-fronts outside your trousers? A rubber penis strapped to ones head?
b) You’re not that tough if escape from a crimescene makes you waddle like Jemima Puddleduck, pal.
Dude, would it have killed you to have snapped a photo while pretending to text or something??? I feel gypped.
Comment by Scooter — 10 November, 2009 9:36 pm
a) HE WOULD HAVE KILLED ME.
b) I think you get these same Muni. I think you know.
c) ME! DEAD!
Comment by anna — 10 November, 2009 9:38 pm
Much like when it was the fashion for models to go out with dirty hair and those clunky horizontal black glasses. “Oh, I am so gorgeous I can carry this off.”
Comment by TheQueen — 10 November, 2009 9:47 pm
Didn’t the press gang used to cut the waistbands of sailors trousers so they couldn’t run away or fight? Effectively these guys are doing this to themselves?
Just a sleepy thought.
Comment by Lisa — 11 November, 2009 1:33 am
These are the lowest slung ones I’ve seen, although it could be a normal sized guy standing on the shoulders of a midget with a long t-shirt covering them both. Stupid fuckers whatever….http://failblog.org/2009/11/04/fashion-fail-4/
Comment by Mrs Jones — 11 November, 2009 1:54 am
Perhaps a revival of the high-waisted pants designed by Eldridge Cleaver is next.
Comment by Herb Caen — 11 November, 2009 6:00 am
I saw one recently coming towards me who looked so ridiculous I turned round to watch him from behind - the toughness effect was spoilt by the fact that he had white underpants on with a visible skidmark on the back - luckily he didn’t turn round to see me and OH laughing so much we couldn’t walk or we’d be dead by now.
Comment by FJ — 11 November, 2009 6:08 am
1) It is one of life’s minor joys to watch one of these people try to do a task that requires two hands.
2) I once say a young man trying to get juuuuust the right acreage of underpants displayed - which involved yanking down the outer layer, yanking it up again, yanking it down a bit etc only on the last yank he accidentally grabbed hold of his boxers as well…
Comment by Megan — 11 November, 2009 8:05 am
I was pondering yet again the other day on how utterly ludicrous and annoying this trouser thing is, when I thought, “Hang on, I’ve been having this thought for aaaaaaaaages now. Surely this is a fashion thing, and fashion things are supposed to, well, go out of fashion?”
Jeez. They can’t even get that right.
Seriously though. It has to get old-fashioned some time very soon, right?
Comment by Beleaguered Squirrel — 11 November, 2009 1:35 pm
Image of a gangstah dude, in a red polkadot dress, waddling like Jemina Puddleduck.
Priceless.
Comment by Krazy Kitty — 12 November, 2009 7:23 pm