# Is this the fashion trend that will not die? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 27, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394 "2004-10-27T05:33:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SusanStoHelit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SusanStoHelit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanStoHelit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/41 "2004-10-28T17:37:39Z")
**Armadillo** , is that Eugene, OR? Because I live in Corvallis, and it seems that most fashion trends after 1969 have passed Eugene by. They still need to go through the polyester leisure suits, leggwarmers with stirrup pants, and grunge before they can get to hip-hop fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/42 "2004-10-28T18:29:51Z")
I find baggy pants comfortable. But saggy pants are just lame. Pants are getting tighter…the saggy trend it retreating. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/43 "2004-10-28T22:05:10Z")
> [@Merkwurdigliebe](#): > > You are right in saying that the baggy pants idea won’t die. If you have ever seen the movie “Kids” you’ll notice that even then they were doing it. That was made in 1995 and it was probably filmed earlier and it is almost 2005. Honestly I am surprised that kids are still dressing like that. But you may be surprised when you go to college, as it appears to be something that you grow out of. > > I don’t know how long the fad will last, but I can promise that it will go away. I’m not so sure. I think saggy, baggy pants worn by young men and teenage males will be around forever. The reason is that guys seem to outgrow it in early adulthood, so by the time you reach parental-unit age, you think it looks downright ugly and stupid. What this means is the baggy-saggy look _never_ loses its ability to offend one’s elders, which is what it’s all about. This is really a unique development. Many other fashion trends of the past, like jeans in the Fifties or long hair in the Sixties, originally were perceived as offensive and shocking, but eventually were accepted into the adult mainstream culture. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/44 "2004-10-28T22:15:12Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > When I was in high school (1995), we wore them BIG. By this time we all had jobs and could plunk down our own cash for a pair of the aforementioned JNCOs, at 60 bucks a pop. Most of my pants had 26" openings at that bottom of the legs (these were called “Twin Cannons”) and 40" waists (I was maybe a 28 waist at the time.) Several of my friends, similar in size to me, wore 50" waists. See, now you and your friends are the reason why \*_I cannot find a pair of jeans that fit to save my life!!!_ I can’t go into any goddamn store and find a pair of 46 or 48 inch waist Levis, the size that actually fits _me_ 'cause all you goddamn teenagers with skinny 27" waists are buying all my freaking pants. Wear the damn pants they make for yo’ skinny asses, a’ight? Or I might sit on you! ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/45 "2004-10-28T22:56:56Z")
I just wanted to say that I think about this subject about once a month. Always wondering why this unfortunate trend seems to have lasted forever. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/46 "2004-10-29T11:18:35Z")
I’ve always worn tight jeans - I still wear tight jeans, and I’m 36. Depriving half the population of the world of the sight of my pert denim-sheathed arse would just be selfish - besides, my wife likes 'em. I still have a pair of pants that I wore when I was 18 - half a lifetime ago - and they still fit. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/47 "2004-10-29T11:24:58Z")
Yeah but do you have to use a coathanger to do them up? That was the mark of a true pair of tight jeans in the 80’s. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/48 "2004-10-29T11:32:17Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > Yeah but do you have to use a coathanger to do them up? That was the mark of a true pair of tight jeans in the 80’s. 😃 Don’t need to. Nice to talk to someone in the same timezone, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/49 "2004-10-29T11:39:27Z")
> [@Gail](#): > > This fad is still going strong among my 5th graders in Nevada. Now some girls are coming to school in their baggy pajamas. Literally. I keep my own counsel on this because I think this fad is ludicrous and probably won’t last. I count myself lucky that my fifth grade daughter and her friends think it’s stupid. OMG! You mean kids are walking around in pajamas in places OTHER than Ohio? I was thinking we had the most idiotic teenagers here, but now come to find out that they’re following a nationwide trend? I was at the mall and Border’s last weekend, and kept seeing girl after girl in pajamas and SLIPPERS. Get dressed, ya dumbasses. We’re having a dress-up day for Halloween at my office today, and I nearly wore pajamas to go as a local high school kid. Ava ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/50 "2004-10-29T11:39:48Z")
Hey you did have to if they were tight enough! and yes it is knowing someone else this side of the world is awake. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/51 "2004-10-29T11:56:30Z")
undefined > [@calm kiwi](#): > > and yes it is knowing someone else this side of the world is awake.[/SIZE] undefinednot for much longer…sleep…that’s where I’m a Viking… ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/52 "2004-10-29T11:57:52Z")
Screwing up coding…it must be getting late. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-fashion-trend-that-will-not-die/271394/53 "2004-10-29T12:01:12Z")
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