Will the youth of today be forever saddled with the "saggy pants" walk, or will they grow out of it?
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November 24th, 2015
Seems like we raised a generation of mostly young males that have spent their formative years walking so that their pants ride on or below their hips. Sort of bow-legged and slightly bent kneed to keep their pants from falling off their underwear.
Looking back on it, my dad, who graduated HS in the early 50’s, had a slightly modified walk when he wore jeans because he insisted they be peg-legged and ride on his hip-bones. Apparently the trend when he was a kid. I don’t recall about other (dressier) clothes.
Is the saggy butt look with them for life?
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While i’d like to Hammer this trend, i’ve decided i can’t touch this particular issue…so I won’t.
I think this is a case where it helps to tell them the cruel truth, that this is a prison dress code for “I’m open to letting other prisoners enjoy my naked butt”, and ask them if that’s the message they had in mind. I’ve seen this turn around the habits of youth near me.
But ya, walking habits tend to stick around unless/until people get counter-training. Pretty sad.
They walk that way because they carry so much stuff in their pants – as this video shows .
It’s so ridiculous.
I don’t think they care about the cruel truth, @Zaku and surely many have heard it already, because by now, the prison story is common knowledge. They still wear the pants, regardless. It’s a 180 degree difference from the pants guys wore when I was a teen, when the trend was tight pants.
I have a pet theory that men wear the style popular when they are eighteen to twenty four for the rest of their lives.
My nephews who were teens in the nineties wear low slung jeans, even though they are now in their thirties. Guys at work who were teens in the eighties wear their baseball caps backwards even though they are in their forties. Guys my age wear a combination of alternate hippie backpacker clothes and Preppy style clothes.
So we’ll see low slung jeans for another thirty years, until they get embarrassed that their Depends are showing.
We wore hiphuggers when I was a kid, and I’m good with that. What I don’t get is iphuggers with a baggy crotch. When the trends change, there will be no resale clothes. The inseam in only from just above the knee to the shoe.
I have a 32” inseam and I’ve seen kids taller than me that were wearing no more than 30” – probably more like 28” – inseam. The rest was all sag.
Apparently it takes a lot of practice.
I laughed so hard I teared up! Freakin hilarious.
There’s a parallel trend called hipsters have to pee. It involves wearing skinny pants and standing pigeon-toed.
I think most will grow out of it, or slowly start hitching up their pants a bit higher as the years go by lolol.
Yes, it’s a dumb fashion choice, but every generation has them.
At least our boys don’t constantly feel the need to push up the sleeves on their blazers or whip out their combs and slick back their hair!
Oh, they’ll outgrow it. However, if they really are deep into gang activity, they’ll wind up in prison, or dead, before they have a chance too.
I imagine micro minis of the 60’s drove parents up the wall.
I think today’s youth who wear saggy pants will be saddled with unhealthy results they hadn’t counted on.
Wow, that’s interesting information, @SABOTEUR.
Interesting but not a medical fact. Just a blog. Note the lack of specific citations?
Lots and lots a NAMA out there!
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