# Guys, would you wear these pants? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 3, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378 "2018-06-03T23:14:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/41 "2018-06-05T06:19:22Z")
I wouldn’t wear them - honestly, they look a bit like some sort of surgical support for people suffering some unspecified problem with their knob. Knob problem… Knoblem. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/42 "2018-06-05T06:39:45Z")
wow, 101-0 unanimity! ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/43 "2018-06-05T07:57:34Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > And if you would wear them - where are you going? I’m going to steal something more suitable off a clothesline. I know it’s okay to steal clothes off clotheslines, because I saw Captain Kirk do it on _Star Trek_.\* \*Yes, I know it was a fire escape, not a clothesline, but the principle is the same. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/44 "2018-06-05T08:52:57Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Nope, it’s a ridiculous concept. Back in the '60s or '70s, there was a black power activist (Eldridge Cleaver, maybe?) who made a fashion statement about black masculinity by producing a line of trousers with a black dangling tube to house the wearer’s wedding tackle. The project was a financial failure, as these silly Japanese pants probably are. [Yep.](http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com/2007/09/eldridge-cleaver-fashion-visionary.html) And here I thought I’d be the first person to remember it. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/45 "2018-06-05T18:25:58Z")
Somebody voted _yes?!?_ Well, so much for world peace. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/46 "2018-06-05T19:29:55Z")
There’s always a contrarian or comedian. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/47 "2018-06-05T19:49:11Z")
Because I’m bored, how about pants with the [zipper in back](https://ca.style.yahoo.com/jeans-rear-zipper-exposes-entire-butt-204133600.html)?: Or denims with a properly-placed zipper, [but no fly](https://www.dollskill.com/exposed-zipper-skinny-denim-jeans.html). I want to say this was featured on Bob Newhart, as a trendy fashion thing Howard was really excited about, but it might have been another show. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/48 "2018-06-06T01:27:11Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Somebody voted _yes?!?_ > > Well, so much for world peace. And _that_, boys and girls, is why all polls should be PUBLIC polls… ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/49 "2018-06-06T01:34:46Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > And _that_, boys and girls, is why all polls should be PUBLIC polls… Pretty sure they gotcher “public poll” riiiight… here. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/50 "2018-06-06T03:27:16Z")
> [@](#): > > They don’t look real. It looks like a prop (a half ass prop) from a SNL skit. [They made me think of this one.](https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/snl-digital-short-d-in-a-box/n12100) ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/51 "2018-06-06T21:02:43Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Because I’m bored, how about pants with the [zipper in back](https://ca.style.yahoo.com/jeans-rear-zipper-exposes-entire-butt-204133600.html)?: Back-zip pants have been around in women’s fashion for decades, although traditionally it’s not expected that the wearer will deliberately leave the zipper open as in your linked example. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378/52 "2018-06-06T22:03:58Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Because I’m bored, how about pants with the [zipper in back](https://ca.style.yahoo.com/jeans-rear-zipper-exposes-entire-butt-204133600.html)?:. I’m…very down with that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-would-you-wear-these-pants/815378.md?page=2)