to hope that when my son gets older, the fashion for young lads wearing their trousers slung so low is well and truely over.

[lucykate]

why do they do it?, they look ridiculous.

young lad, walking along the street today, his trousers were so low, you could see the back of his underpants which just looked like they needed binning a jolly good wash.

It's such an american gangsta from da hood thing. Apparently it's to do with wearing hand me downs - the bigger your heans, the bigger your big brother is. So an extension of 'my dad can beat up your dad'.

Can I also add those big disc earrings that teen boys wear.

Me and dh hate them and are seriously hoping they won't be around when ds is older.

At least with trousers you can get new ones when they decide that look is no longer fashionable but with those earrings they be left with a whopping great hole in their ear forever.

Oh yes yes the disc earrings. And the windswept hairdo. Most strange..It all looks so uncomforatble. But then that is an old person type thing to say

You'd need some sort of cosmetic surgery if one of those disc earrings had to be removed surely?

Seriously those trousers should come with braces....

It's a vile look...but then again so is low cut jeans/leggings with a thong and tattoo on show (shudders)

I totally hate this fashion too! They can't walk properly!

And I once saw a young bloke just blatantly with his hands down his relatively baggy trousers having a fiddle!

Women in the wrong bras in my other pet hate, mentioned this on another fashion type thread the other day!

Stillbobbysgirl that wll teach him a lesson

The kids I taught at a lovely inner city secondary school bought their trousers several sizes too small, apparently this is their gravity-defying secret - and they actually can't pull them up, bless their cold little bottoms.

its appalling. I used to work in secondary school with this situation. One boy waddled like a penguin and it was like the scene in Mary Poppins where Burt dances with some of this species.

I used to find it embarassing. did not want to look at their Boxer shorts.

I had exactly the same thought today OP when I saw a young lad waddling along the street like a penguin as his jeans were so low he couldn't walk properly. Imagine how much their mothers must want to grab them and pull them up.

It's horroble and thankfully my 15 yr DS doesn't wear it, he still likes skinny jeans and DD 13 not impressed with the boys who wear them either.

On the plus side, you get months out of wear out of jeans which are too short when hoicked up to normal waist level.

saw a teenager in the town centre the other day. He was running and they actually ended up round his ankles - not that he seemed bothered. Just seems like attention seeking - think they think they are being risque and shocking - don't they realise everyone is just laughing at them.

reeling. yes. puffball skirts.

And legwarmers of course. Let's not forget leg warmers.

Oh, and the hairdos - I remember being totally unable to actually SEE through my fringe at one point.

Then there was the stiff as a board hairdo. With the fringe curled right out and half a bottle of hairspray on it. Remember that?

I think our generation has no place laughing at the teen fashions today.

Not that that stops us, of course...

I actually watched one lads trousers fall down as they were "balanced" so precariously on his arse cheeks. I giggled to myself as he tried to pull them up from around his ankles while still walking along trying to looks cool! Stupid stupid fashion!

I was walking up a hill a few weeks ago when I looked up and a man in his 20s was pushing a buggy up the hill in front of me. His trousers were at least half way down his arse. I crossed the road as it was in my eye line and - bugger me- he crossed too!
There was no escape from his arse!

I've heard the trousers slung low trend is due to 'young-uns' trying to look like prisoners in the USA...in that they have their belts taken off them, resulting in their jeans falling down. Hey, I am so down with the kids that I know that!

haha, my DP wears these!

Hammy02 -I've heard that some prisoners in the USA wear their trousers so low, to notify other inmates they are up for a bit of Anal action!

My brother wears his jeans like this and he's in his late 20's, I thought he'd have grown out of it by now!

You know, if we want the fashion to die a death, it's very easy.

We just make the elderly and the leaders of the country dress like that.

As soon as david cameron, prince charles and your grandad are wearing trousers round their knees, teenagers will start wearing high waisted cords.

Just as bad are the trousers that kind of fit around the waist (though very low slung) but have a long baggy crotch thing going on. From the back it looks like they've filled their pants

"Hammy02 -I've heard that some prisoners in the USA wear their trousers so low, to notify other inmates they are up for a bit of Anal action!"

I thought it was from the ghettos in american cities where the poor kids wore outsized handmedowns becaue they couldn't afford new clothes.

Apologies Hammy02- You are right.

www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/fashion/30baggy.html

I've been telling myself that the fashion will fade for the past 3 years. Now I think we'll be watching ds waddle down the aisle with his trousers round his ankles.

I must say that the jeans look a real treat today - with his father's thickest knitted ASDA pants peering cheekily at the world!

I give up !!!!