Nothing more to add, except that John Mullets’ phrase,
“which is silly as an apple running around the streets with a chainsaw and an explosive cow,”
made me stop and read and read and read again and I am am very confused but even more entertained. Boy, I like that.
This isn’t an Australian commonplace phrase is it?
Oh, also: the one-sided/-shouldered tank-tops in day-glo 1983 WHAM! colors, worn with bra with transparent plastic straps.
Shudder.
I think the worst trend of recent memory has been the addition of words to the ass of young girl’s jeans and shorts: Trouble, Cute, Princess, etc.
WTF??? If my 10 yr old daughter (if I had one) wanted to wear a pair of shorts that said Cute across her ass I’d kick it into the next week.
That’s just wrong on so many levels I can’t even fathom. Who let pedophiles into the fashion design business?
Exceptionally fortunately, me neither.
I just realized that my last post might not come across the way I intended.
I am exceptionally forunate to have the wonderful woman taht I do have. Being with her is the smartest decision I have yet to make.
John Mullets I read a phrase in your rant as, ‘poop singer’ and I spit diet Coke all over my damned screen, so thank you very much.
And the person who talked about:
Mama Tiger, I saw a guy sitting on his stoop yesterday, with the waistband of his jeans around his thighs, with boxers positioned normally.
Ah, for the days when clothing was supposed to make the wearer look attractive.
LOL. How’d you manage navigating all those rocks in front of his glass house?
Btw, is this a regional thing, or have I just not noticed the ass cracks? I live in the bay area.
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IMO it’s the perfect rise. Low enough so that the pants don’t go to my armpits, but high enough that my crack isn’t in danger of showing.
blissful sigh
For what it’s worth, I see it all the time in New York City. And I think it’s hot hot hot.
2 months ago, I went out for drinks with a young lady friend of mine and she wore a pair of low-rise pants. I still have that image in my head. (Why is it that hot babes are finally interested in me AFTER I’m married?!? Gahhhhhh!!)
Yesterday I saw a young lady on the subway wearing some rather flatteringly cut shorts. All was well until she started messing with the waistband. The waistband was designed to roll down, revealing beneath it a faux-boxer short waistband. I suppose at least it’s a convenient way of achieving that particular fashionable look. It would have been more impressive, however, if the “boxer short” waistband had been high and tight enough to conceal her actual knickers. Oh dear. I was seated and the young lady was standing directly in front of me so it was entirely impossible to avoid seeing, well, almost all that she had to offer. To mitigate somewhat, it appeared that her knickers were a bikini bottom, so perhaps she was going swimming, but I still didn’t really need to know quite so much about her.
Nope. I know a couple who’s son is a hip-hop artist, and he wears his pants halfway to his knees. Last Saturday, I asked him how he got the damn things to stay at that gravity-defying level. He said, “With a belt”.
I still don’t know how they manage to stay up. Even if you belt your legs together, unless you do it so tightly that you can’t walk, they should still slide off.
I’m just curious…how old are all the people who say that low rise jeans just look bad? And I’m not talking about when you’re sitting down and exposing your buttcrack, or when they’re so low you can see their pubic hair. Just normal, run of the mill low rise.
Because honestly, I like them. I think it’s more the shirt you wear with them that make them the problem. I find them much more comfortable…when I wear jeans that come all the way up to my waist, it cinches in my stomach and makes me feel like I’m gaining weight, that I’m fat and all (ftr, I’m an in-shape fairly toned 12 with some tummy bulge). With low rise, it doesn’t tug in on my tummy and makes me feel more sexy.
Now, I think it all depends on what shirt you’re going to wear with it. If you wear a halter top or something that leaves inches of room, then you better have a nice flat tummy (but I don’t have the repulsed feeling that a lot of you seem to have…I think it looks good on SOME people). What I generally wear with low rise is either a tshirt that comes past my waist or one that comes right to the waistband. Yes, it does give the occasional flash of flesh, but not that often.
oh, and the reason I ask your age, is that my parents have said much the same thing…that it doesn’t look good on anyone and nobody should wear it. I’m 24 btw
The kids I see around here with their pants hanging below their butts don’t use a belt, they use their hands. It’s actually kind of funny watching them trying to walk while hanging onto their pants. At least it means that if they ever get in trouble and try to run, they’re going to trip over their own clothes…and I saw one kid with pants so full that I nearly rolled down my window as I drove past and yelled out, “Nice skirt!” I suspect he wouldn’t have appreciated it. :eek:
One of my favorite stories about my grandmother: One day she spotted some young (15-16) boys on the street outside her window wearing those enormously baggy jeans that were in fashion at the time (and still are, to some extent), and commented (in earnest) how sad it was that those boys were so poor they had to wear their father’s trousers. My mother and I were in hysterics.
As for reveal-all clothing, well…I’m 36, and I find it all horrendously tasteless. Ditto the endless variations French Connection UK have spun on their initials, plastering fcuk on everything in sight. The fondness for slapperwear amongst the female population from age 6 to 60 makes me wonder why all those people who worked so hard to get men to stop treating women like sex objects even bothered…
I work part-time for a company that does inventories as a specialty. I’ve worked in several of what Marcie refers to as “teenie-bopper slut shops” and have seen underwear that would be trashy on a young adult targeted towards the 10-12 year old girl. Since the typical employee of these shops is not much older, I assume they perceive it as normal. But, if I had a 10-12 year old daughter who came home with a pair of thong panties that said “Scratch 'N Sniff” (I ain’t making that one up) or “Rub Here” or “In Your Dreams” across the crotch, I would throw an absolute fit.
For what it’s worth, Siv, I’m 27 and find the style to be unflattering in the extreme on most people. I was just thinking about this yesterday in the Walmart parking lot, actually. I was walking behind a young, thin, toned, very pretty woman with a good figure, and noticed how her pants made her look flabby and dumpy.
She was wearing moderate low-rises, and I don’t know if they didn’t fit properly or what, but they raised bulges of hip over the waistband, making her look fat. And she was maybe a size 8, more likely a 6 or smaller. This seems to be pretty common with those pants; very few women have rock-hard hips (that’s what makes your curves curvy, after all) and when something tight enough to stay up is stuck on a soft area, it’s gonna dig in a little and cause poochage.
I just don’t understand why you’d consciously, deliberately, choose clothing that emphasizes your body imperfections rather than playing up your good points and playing down your bad points. There are lots of things that are stylish right now that make me look like Moby Dick out for a stroll, so I don’t buy them. Instead, I track down clothes that make me look attractive, if not fashionable.
I agree with CCL, and with all due respect to SIVA, I think the look she describes (low-risers at the hips, T-shirt meets there, occasional flashes of skin) is not as great as you might think. (Don’t get me wrong, SIVA! I’m sure you yourself look wonderful!)
The problem is that you’ve moved the “waist” that a viewer sees from your actual waist (probably the narrowist area between shoulders and knees) to right above your hips (probably the widest area between shoulders and knees). And the viewer’s eye is drawn to this precisely because of the flashes of skin that call attention to it. Well, guess what girls! Unless you are Annie Anorexia, this makes you look fat from behind! Or, if not exactly fat, it makes you look like your waist is like four inches wider than it probably really is. And this is before taking into account the problems of poochage that others have referred to.
The only way this “look” looks good is if you’re an 18-year-old, totally flat-tummied hard-body wearing a baby tee that’s tight enough to show where your actual stomach is and then you never bend over or sit down. (Baby tees, by the way, being another popular fashion that really look good on only about two women.)
And guys who say they don’t mind – how would you feel about it if it were male asscracks and hair on display? Because that’s about how a lot of us women feel to see these screaming fashion tragedies on girls.
I often argue with my 9 yo neice about what she wears when shes here. My mother allows he to wear clothes that would make a street whore blush and it makes me sick. I actually took her downtown to the “red light district” last night to show her what she actually looked like. I think from now on shes going to wear VERY conservative clothing because she was crying by the time we got home saying “I am not a whore I’m a little KID” She asked my mother to take her shopping today and I’m going to go with them to help her pick out “more safer clothes” (her words) I’m sorry if my methods offend some of y’all but this is the ONLY thing I could think of to make her see what she REALLY looked like. Damn clothing designers making clothes for CHILDREN like that. Fuckers should be beaten.
Before you go blaming the mothers you MIGHT want to scoot down to Walmart ans see the “selection” they have there… it’s appaling and if you are in the lower income bracket it’s hard to go to Neiman Marcus or Macys to buy freaking childrens clothes.
I agree with you on the clothes issue, but I have to tell you that if I were your brother or sister (this little girl’s parent), that would be the last time you ever laid eyes on your niece.
Hell it was THEIR idea!! :eek: