# Please explain this weird teenage fashion
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-weird-teenage-fashion/378547
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 31, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-weird-teenage-fashion/378547 "2006-10-31T03:55:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-weird-teenage-fashion/378547/21 "2006-10-31T19:33:41Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus]
IIRC there was also a fad of wearing jeans backwards in the early 1990s. At least, it was enough of a fad to appear in a Rolling Stone Magazine fashion layout that I remember seeing back then.
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Yup. Brought on by [Kris Kross](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kross)
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-weird-teenage-fashion/378547/22 "2006-10-31T20:10:33Z")
When I were a lad in the seventies, and at school in rural Scotland, our reaction to the punk stuff appearing on TV and in the charts was to roll up one leg of the school trousers, untuck the shirt and tie the school tie round the head. Obviously, this was only at playtime - the teachers didn’t really approve of this in the classroom. Anarchy in the UK!
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### Author:  [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-weird-teenage-fashion/378547/23 "2006-10-31T20:24:23Z")
[QUOTE=Ghanima]
**I’m still not over the falling-down pants thing.** I’m not ready for arms-only sweatshirts.
And yet, I remember carefully pulling up my socks as high as they could go, and then rolling them down to little doughnuts around my ankles, and wearing them that way with pegged pants. Who am I to judge?
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_Bolding mine_ Apparently neither are the kids. I still see it everywhere. I recall seeing it right after I graduated from high school in '90. Why won’t it _die_?
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### Author:  [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-weird-teenage-fashion/378547/24 "2006-10-31T20:31:46Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Yup. Brought on by [Kris Kross](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kross)
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Right. But the primary advantage to wearing one’s pants backwards (stealing this bit from a comic on VH1) is that you don’t have to pull down your pants when you need go Number 2.
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### Author:  [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-weird-teenage-fashion/378547/25 "2006-10-31T23:25:53Z")
I did this a lot as a teenager and still sometimes do it at 24, though with a jacket instead of a sweatshirt. It had nothing to do with fashion or even laziness, I just had cold arms and didn’t want to fully put on the jacket, lest I get too hot (I have a thing about temperature regulation). I figured anyone observing me would guess as much. It’d have never occured to me that it would provoke someone enough to post about it.
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