Pants on the Ground

Cidu Bill on Jul 29th 2010

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Okay, here’s the question: How low can your pants be before you’re officially not wearing pants?

Filed in Bill Bickel | 27 responses so far

27 Responses to “Pants on the Ground”

  1. Proco Jul 29th 2010 at 09:22 am 1

    About that low.

  2. Sili Jul 29th 2010 at 09:44 am 2

    Who has pockets in their boxer shorts?

  3. Charlene Jul 29th 2010 at 09:47 am 3

    I dunno - he might be wearing them as a knee warmer instead of as trousers, but he’s still wearing them.

    Then again, I remember wearing things just as stupid when I was his age.

  4. yellojkt Jul 29th 2010 at 09:57 am 4

    Is this fad not over yet? Why can’t zoot suits make a comeback?

  5. Dave in Asheville Jul 29th 2010 at 10:06 am 5

    Someone should help him out and fix the twist in his belt.

  6. Ledasmom Jul 29th 2010 at 12:05 pm 6

    Is he wearing pants garters? Looks like there’s a bit of fabric running from the pants to the boxers, over there on the right. Is this a standard method of keeping the drooping pants from falling completely off?

  7. Elyrest Jul 29th 2010 at 01:03 pm 7

    I know that even noticing things like this makes me an old coot, but the droopy drawers fad has been going on for so long now that it’s impossible not to have noticed. I’ve seen kids who can’t run and play without tripping because of their pants and that’s sad. This guy looks way too old to be wearing low-riders and that’s even sadder.

  8. David N Jul 29th 2010 at 01:04 pm 8

    And he’s carrying his shoes, so this is one odd snapshot of time. You’d think one would trip and fall down a lot, but what do I know.

  9. igeek Jul 29th 2010 at 01:07 pm 9

    Pockets on boxers? Nah, they’re access slots. No one in this pic is wearing much however. Just what kind of hangout is this?

  10. Dan W Jul 29th 2010 at 01:16 pm 10

    I’d say you’re officially not wearing pants if there is skin visible between the bottom of your underwear and the top of your pants.

  11. paperboy Jul 29th 2010 at 01:35 pm 11

    How did the “walking around drunk” look become popular? Why do some guys wear short pants under their pants? FIDU.

  12. Nicole Jul 29th 2010 at 01:56 pm 12

    What is even wierder is that if he was with his girlfriend, she would have taken an hour to get ready an would be dressed to the nines. He on the other hand looks like he couldn’t be bothered to finish dressing — pants we don need no stinkin pants

  13. turquoise cow Jul 29th 2010 at 07:15 pm 13

    Sili (2) - People whose pants pockets are so low they can’t actually reach them without bending over?

  14. AMC Jul 29th 2010 at 09:14 pm 14

    It’s all about versatility - one minute, they are almost pants, the next they’re hobbles to keep the horses from wandering off.

  15. Kaitlyn Jul 29th 2010 at 09:56 pm 15

    Does anyone know how you walk in them? I’ve seen guys in campus with this look (never that low), and they obviously walk.

    Men, how do you do it?

  16. George P Jul 29th 2010 at 10:41 pm 16

    They make special pants that can be worn this low while walking. Running, though, apparently requires grabbing the crotch to hold them up.

    I don’t think I ever wore anything this stupid, not even a polyester leisure suit (which was before I was buying my own clothes.

    My hair style back then, which often consisted of just not cutting it for months, except hacking off the front when I couldn’t see, was stupid, although not as stupid as the unwashed look I see around today.

  17. The Bad Seed Jul 29th 2010 at 11:29 pm 17

    I played in a pool tournament once where a guy on a team we were playing against wore low-low baggy jeans over tighty-whiteys. When he would extend forward for a shot with one foot on the ground and the other leg up resting straight back behind him on the rail of the table, his belt would be below and squeezing up against the butt-cheek of the raised leg in a way that looked mighty uncomfortable and distracting. We were always betting which was going to give way first: whether the belt was going to snap and take out a spectator’s eye, or whether his butt cheeck was going to pop right off and take out a light over the table.

  18. Molly J Jul 30th 2010 at 01:41 am 18

    I’m about as “live and let live” as they come, but that just looks plain stupid. He looks like someone who realized at the critical moment that there was no toilet paper and is now hobbling out to the linen cupboard to remedy the situation.

    I read in Tom Wolfe’s “A Man in Full” that this look is actually based on prison garb. Prisoners are not issued belts as they are a safety risk, so logically some have pants that slip down and hang low during the course of a day. For young men to be emulating this seems pretty sad to me.

  19. Igelino Jul 30th 2010 at 04:56 am 19

    Last time I was back in the states, I saw two guys running for the bus. One resorted to the crotch-pull in order to make the bus. The other kept his fashion sense, refused to pull them up, and stumbled toward the bus as his mate got the driver to wait. The driver was struggling to keep from laughing.

    Adding to Molly J’s post, I’ve heard that prison pants don’t necessarily slip down, but rather that the prisoners who let them hang are advertising for sex. Emulating that is even more tragic.

  20. mitch4 Jul 30th 2010 at 08:15 am 20

    Why is it that the boxers that are displayed in this style are generally quite simple and mainstream? (apart from the access slots or pockets in this example) Here they are a muted-color cross-stripes, with a checkerboard effect. Suitable for a guy three or four times his age. Why hasn’t a “flashy boxers” branch of this style developed?

  21. Proginoskes Jul 30th 2010 at 12:20 pm 21

    Molly J (18) is correct; Igelino (19) isn’t.

    http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp

  22. Mark in Boston Jul 30th 2010 at 03:55 pm 22

    Well, there ARE subcultures here in America where a jail term is a rite of passage.

    (A Thoreauvian jail term, one would hope, denoting a refusal to compromise one’s principles.)

  23. Andrea Jul 31st 2010 at 12:27 pm 23

    I don’t think those are boxers at all, but pajama bottoms. My husband has a pair just like them.

  24. Robert Jul 31st 2010 at 07:34 pm 24

    I am reminded of one of my mother’s lines:
    “He cannot possibly know what he looks like.” I’m officially old; my primary emotional response to that photo was ’sure am glad MY sons don’t dress like that’.

    But not so old I didn’t notice he looks pretty good shirtless.

  25. Gilgamesh Aug 2nd 2010 at 06:12 pm 25

    Photos should be taken of these “pants on the ground” people and shown to their grandkids in about 40 years.

  26. Paperboy Aug 2nd 2010 at 06:19 pm 26

    There IS another aspect: you KNOW you’re a bad-ass if you dress like a complete dork and nobody points and laughs at you to your face.

  27. Araxie Aug 5th 2010 at 04:37 am 27

    I myself will feel perfectly okay with pants hanging low as soon as it’s legal for people to walk around with no pants at all. It serves the same purpose- showing off your drawers. Why not?

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