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To get baffled by the teen boys who can't get jeans past their thighs?

57 replies

Bamzooki · 21/04/2007 17:56

I know I am sounding like my Granny, and am obviously deeply uncool, but just how do they manage to walk without their jeans falling to the floor? And it means that you get to view said persons 'grundies' in the gap between t-shirt (above buttocks) and jeans (below buttocks), which in a teen boy's world is not really an attractive sight.
I know it is only a trivial matter, but I mean, hipsters I get. I like them, and i wear them, but surely this is a step to far?

Or am I just being a bit Victor over this...?

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ghosty · 22/04/2007 01:04

LOL at this thread .... I find it hilarious! I have to fight the urge to shout out "PULL YOUR PANTS UP!!!" when I see them trying to run across the road ...
But agree, they have to do something we don't like and have to tut about ... otherwise their lives would have no meaning ....

Astrophe · 22/04/2007 00:50

This thread is very apt, I saw a teenage boy (actually he was probably in his 20s) who trousers fell down in ASDA this arvo.

I sniggered.

pickledpear · 22/04/2007 00:48

my dd7 thinks it strange and she nearer their age than I... but i think it must be uncomfortable

themoon66 · 22/04/2007 00:13

My 2 teenagers walk around with trousers in the 'will they, wont they' falling down state. DS does it because he is so tall he cannot find trousers long enough. DD, well, I don't know.... she does it to annoy me I reckon.

suedonim · 22/04/2007 00:04

You're supposed to be baffled, otherwise there'd be no point in the exercise.

zippitippitoes · 21/04/2007 22:36

here you are here

chocolattegirl · 21/04/2007 22:35

Maybe today's teenagers don't like to be fettered? Hence untied shoelaces and over-large jeans.

20 years time they'll be tutting at their off-spring who insist on wearing ties and have their trousers around their waists insead of their groins. Or they'll all have terrible trouble with their kidneys and be in pain all the time .

promater · 21/04/2007 22:33

It is not just teens - lol - my litle bro still wears his jeans like that to a certain extent and he is 26!! He has been doing it since he was 13 - useful for me as I have been able to wear his cast off w34/l32 jeans - my perfect fit but they hang of his lanky bumless frame - he was a skater boi so that is what they did.

zippitippitoes · 21/04/2007 22:28

i was told it originated in us prison culture...not particularly pleasant

i don't think they do usually wear braces..none that i know of

and yes i do threaten to pull them up all the time...pull them or i'll do it for you tbe

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 21/04/2007 22:21

I love teenagers

chocolattegirl · 21/04/2007 22:01

It's when they go out without their boxer shorts underneath and low-slung jeans that you ought to be worried about .

FrannyandZooey · 21/04/2007 21:47

My ds has cottoned on to this trend, I think

he wears boxers and if you pull his trews up over them, he pulls them down and says "I like them like this"

he is 4

lillochum · 21/04/2007 21:45

I heard that the logic behind this fashion is that the boys are so enormously well hung that their jeans will be held up by their equipment....ha ha!

FrannyandZooey · 21/04/2007 21:43

Yes I think it is rather sweet as well

one lad who cut my hair has his whole arse out but I must say his pants were extremely white and fresh looking. I reckon if you are under 25 and capable of keeping your pants sparkling white then you might as well be showing them off to the world

noddyholder · 21/04/2007 21:42

My ds copies some of his older friends and I had to laugh the other day as I could see his bright yellow boxers a mile off!

luckylady74 · 21/04/2007 21:40

i think it's really sweet! big tough boys with their trousers falling down. curvy [rather than emaciated] girls with huge amounts of midriff on show is quite refreshing -better than fat pants!

Judy1234 · 21/04/2007 21:35

ONly because they say they should be worn right down over your hips - in their case with firm brown tummies with naval jewellery. Not sure it's a good look on me. I owe it to them to be middle aged.

WelshBoris · 21/04/2007 19:55

"They're always telling me to pull down skirts"

Saucy Xenia very saucy

Judy1234 · 21/04/2007 19:49

Anyone with teenagers....

Of course I like everything pulled up and then secured around my waist and feeling nicely tucked in, something my 3 teenagerish people think is ludicrous. They're always telling me to pull down skirts.

Lio · 21/04/2007 19:46

This from an article in the Guardian a while ago, the writer having seen said low-slung trouers@

"The display I witnessed was not near any fashionable or gay area. These were not, I am sure, gay men. Though the clothes were screaming, "Look at my arse!" the manner and face of both men were saying, defiantly, "What do you think you're looking at?" Indeed, the low belt-line has been pioneered by rap musicians and urban American black culture, notorious for homophobic machismo."

And later in the same article:

"The subtext of the look is, I suspect, a defiantly macho, "Look, I'm so heterosexual that I can display my arse in public without feeling gay." There is a logic at work here. If you accept the argument that conventional straight fashion is running scared from gay fashion, it follows that the most macho way you can dress is to display that you are not susceptible to that fear. In other words, the best way to show that you have no fear of gayness is to dress gay."

pudding77 · 21/04/2007 19:32
Grin
powder28 · 21/04/2007 19:28

Yank what up?

pudding77 · 21/04/2007 19:26

Does anyone else get the urge to yank them up or is it just me??

Mog · 21/04/2007 18:36

My pre-schoolers point and laugh when they see this - "Look Mummy that man's trousers are falling down!"

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Bamzooki · 21/04/2007 18:31

Yes I realise that I am too old to appreciate current teen fashion. I just get amazed by the gravity defying apparel that is evidently available these days.
And also want to know why they don't produce bras made of the same stuff.

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