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.

Ah yes, but as the owner of 3 teen DS's this gross fashion does have an advantage.....

As they grow, the need to replace the trousers because they are too short is less -all they do is just pull them down a bit more!

I tell mine that if I can see their underwear they pay me money - it works around the house at least, and when we go out, I just walk ahead or behind them and pretend they're nothing to do with me!

Its f*ing awful! The last interaction I had with a lad dressed like this qwas at work. He was outside the office, throwing stones at a streetlight (WHY?). We stuck our head out the window and asked him to stop. He then said lots of insensible things to us (we think he was trying to be 'street'). We said we didn't care, please could he just stop. He carried on. Went outside and suggested to him that he should be in school. He explained to me that I couldn't tell him what to do because I didn't know about life in 'the projects'. I laughed a little, asked him if he meant Easton (just up the road), and he walked off doing that strutty think with every other step.

Anyway, YANBU. Yep, all generations will have ridiculous fashions when they're young. Once you become an adult, It is actually YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to go on about how stupid they look.

My brother dresses like this, I always pull them up

LOL Deepheat, talk about American culture, we don't have 'projects' in the UK.

Yes deepheat, what is that strutty walk thing?
Do they realise what prats they look? I guess not.

I think it looks completely hilarious and always giggle as they look so ridiculous. I wonder if hinting that such a low crotch makes them look like they are wearing a very full nappy would embarrass them out of it!!

OP, sadly, I'm sure there will be another objectionable fashion to follow this one. Personally I just do not "get" slackly tied shoelaces/loosely waisted jeans, fgs, how do they run for the bus

To take that a stage further, western culture is doomed in many ways as more productive, hard working people take a leading role. Look at how the Chinese bring up their children for instance.

They look to me like a toddler with a rather overloaded nappy....

Oh God I hate it when they have their crotch dangling somewhere down near their knees. Why do they think this looks cool? It makes them look like old men who need to make room for their incontinence pads.

And what is it about hoods? When we were kids wearing your hood up made you look soft - like your Mum had said to you "Keep that hood up" when you left the house and you did as you were told.

There will always be something to drive mothers loopy...

remember those abysmal long rats tails sported in the 80s?