to get unreasonably irritated by boys/men walking around with their trousers under their backsides?

[Mamazon]

Im watchng the VMA's and they just had some rapper/singer (omg how old am i?)
who had his jeans literally around his knee's.

i see this "fashion trend" all ovwer the place and each and every time i see it i just want to go up up and give them a wedgy!

it really annoys me.
i have even been known to walk behind them and say "puul your pants up i can see your skid marks"
(much to my mothers horror)

Was a teacher in a PRU and some of the fashion is apparently for, ahem, practical purposes... eg all black clothes so you can't be seen in the dark (when out mugging innocents of their mobile phone) and one pair of trousers over another (to do with CCTV or something)

But I like it that the kids show off, not expensive, designer boxers, but 'Calvin Classics' off the market...

Ok, if you're right - do you think 99% of the people who wear those jeans know that it symbolises this? I don't think so.

yanbu..mrs mattie remember a chris rock sketch where he was ranting abotu how you're not meant to go to prison so why brag about it...very funny.

avena -did you say you saw a MAN like that ... have only seen teenage boys (outside the music videos)

I work in a Further Education College and so many of the male students sport this look of nasty, often tatty looking, boxers totally showing because their skinny jeans are round under their arse.

definately not a 'gang' or hip hop type trend, these are all 'emo' art students.

I hate having to see this at such close proximity it is not attractive, why don't they realise this?

and surely their female counterparts don't find this attractive either.........?

Maybe in the beginning that's why certain young men wore baggy pants. Now I am almost certain that it is because it has become a widespread fashion, not because it is a secret code among a criminal subculture!

Sorry, we'll have to agree to disagree! I've also worked in FE and pretty certain most of the boys would say 'because Sean John/Rocawear etc etc are the cool brands' or 'because Jay Z and 50 Cent wear them'. I genuinely don't think the majority of kids who wear hip ho clothing look as deeply into it as some adults do!

I used to follow my students down the corridor with my staple gun threatening to staple their trousers to their shirts if they didn't pull their trousers up. Funnily enough, most of the older boys used to adjust their dress before they came into my room.

Back in the 80s, loose trousers were already connected to the gang culture. thinking of the movie 'colors' as a sign that it was already around.

OK, but still think most wearers nowadays don't see those connotations. It's like saying that hair longer than collar length was really subversive and a sign of being part of a 'yoof' subculture in the 1960s. It's true - but has little relevance for guys with long hair today.

yabu
girls flach their clevage all the time.

Gang culture is here in London, too, but not of the Bloods and Crips variety!

The latino gangs have taken over large swathes of what used to be Bloods and Crips territory in Calif.

down LA way you get the Sureños, of course, califrau.

Irrespective of where the trend started, it, it's pretty universal around here and really irks me too. OK, so I'm not fashion-forward, but it seems to me that underwear is called that for a reason. It's meant to be underneath. So, purlease, no boxer shorts ballooning over low-slung jeans and no ordinary bras under halterneck tops for the laydees.

Yes gang culture is everywhere in London and we have post code wars etc but I do not think baggy jeans makes u look like your in a gang a lot of females wear baggy jeans these days and girl boxers ( primark)lol showing to be fair its more of a fashion thing in kids teen rather than a gang thing. I know peckham boys and brixton boyz roll with the colour thing depending on what post code u are at and to show your part of the gang they wear something in that colour from a hat to shirt hmmm.

lol@MadBad. I have always hankered after a string of pearls, a pair of elbow-length silk gloves and a posh cigarette holder.

i think it is just popular anyway not gang or music related

i posted a thread on this quite a long timer ago ds is still doing it

i tell him to pull them up he is 20

have been telling him this pretty much all his life i think

it seems to cross all the different types from skaters emo etc to rapper types

ds isnt really identifiable with any of those more public school lol

I say to the boys in school 'For goodness sake pull up your trousers, I'm not remotely interested in seeing your underpants!'

Very loudly so that all their mates snigger

How do they stay up I always wonder?

and too shoes - though I'm a straight female - I would prefer to look at a bit of cleavage than a scrawny arse any day!