101 things bar boys do not need to know about fashion

[bkkguy]

While I have often wondered exactly how low slung jeans can be and how many acres of underwear can be displyed above a beltline, I did not reaslise what what a fight was going on here (well actually elsewhere thank god) between the metrosexuals and the wiggas to see who could show the most buttock and why!

The cheek of it

Saturday December 17, 2005
The Guardian

Young men have always dressed to shock. Yet there is something uniquely strange about today's acres of underclad bottoms, says William Sutcliffe
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When it comes to the low belt-line, there are two rival theories as to its inception. The trickle-down theory credits Alexander McQueen's "bumster" trousers, which in the mid-90s set the trend for a descending belt. Others trace the look to US prisons, where one of the first things that happens is your belt is taken away. Prisoners, as a result, wear their trousers low. From here, via gangster chic, the look spread all the way to suburban "wiggas" - white men who mimic black urban culture.
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The subtext of the look is, I suspect, a defiantly macho, "Look, I'm so heterosexual that I can display my arse in public without feeling gay."
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The arse is being displayed to provoke suggestions of homosexuality that can then be reacted to with aggressive homophobia. You show your arse, then anyone who looks can legitimately be punched. It is, then, a homophobic pseudo-gay come-on.
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Just as high heels and long nails were an incapacitating fashion statement beloved of rich men who wanted to proclaim the unemployability of their trophy wives, the low belt serves a similar function: if everyone can see your underwear and a significant portion of your backside, you are telling the world that there is no employer breathing down your neck, dictating what you wear. You are also saying that you don't even want a job.
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full story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/st...667851,00.html

I secretly think this might be Hedda writing under an alias!

bkkguy

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By Bkkguy
" ... I secretly think this might be Hedda writing under an alias! ... "

Naaaaaaa ... accuse him of many things, but being funny ain't one of them. I can't fathom Hedda writing pornography such as that in the article you link to:

" ... I urge men to try it. You need a baggy pair of trousers and a long belt. Seemingly against the laws of physics, the trousers will stay up. It is a little uncomfortable, since the weight of the trousers is chiefly borne by the penis ... "

Were you aware there's a law against low-slung, butt-peeping trousers:

By Christina Bellantoni
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Droopy drawers' bill seeks end to overexposure of underwear

RICHMOND тАФ Virginia lawmakers to the state's youth: Pull up your pants or pay the price.
Delegate Algie T. Howell Jr. doesn't want to see underwear hanging out of the back of your pants, and most lawmakers yesterday agreed with him. The House voted 60-34 for his bill, which would impose a $50 fine on anyone whose boxers, briefs or thongs peek above their pants or skirts.
"It's not an attack on baggy pants," said Mr. Howell, Norfolk Democrat. "To vote for this bill would be a vote for character, to uplift your community and to do something good not only for the state of Virginia, but for this entire country."

Cheers ...

when she bent over, we saw the crack of Dawn!

" ... since the weight of the trousers is chiefly borne by the penis

Oh, gladly, the cross-I'd bear!

[quote:5f1skn0f]...uplift your community and to do something good not only for the state of Virginia, but for this entire country."

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So, all you shirt-lifters, lift up your pants! Sally forth and Carpe Denim! Sieze the jeans!

I found the whole baggy-jeans fashion depressing until I realized its stealth purpose was to display the unclad or underwear-clad butt. Then I celebrated!

[cottmann]

cross-eyed bears are quite fashionable - many Thais seem to have at least one in their rooms.

cross-eyed bears are quite fashionable - many Thais seem to have at least one in their rooms.

Yes. I've donated several to the cause: Preservation of the Cross-eyed Bear.

BTW: The Thai kam (Word) for bear, I've been told, is, Mee (Sorry, I don't know the tone.). In case you did not know, they call many (All?) of us Mee. Some are Mee See Kaow, Mee See Dam, Mee See Nam-dtahn and Mee Gon Eun: White Bear, Black bear, Brown bear and Fat arsed bear and just plain Mee. Perhaps they like to collect those cross-eyed bears because they remind them of us--And how grizzly we are? (Sorry, I couldn't resist the pun.) So when you hear a boy ask boy-friend-of-the-day if he has a farang, and bf answers, "Mee," he may be saying, "Have," or may be saying (Yes, implied.) he has a (Farang) bear. And that's your fractured fairy tale for the day: a bear's tale. "Just grin and bear it," as the bishop said to the go-go boy.

Father, thinking she hadn't been paying attention in church; asked his wee daughter if she liked the sermon.
"Oh, yes!" she replied.
"What did you like best?" he asked.
I liked the part about the bear!
"What bear?" he asked.
"Gladly; the cross-eyed bear! :?