At the asshole end of the twentieth century

[venta]

Enough.

As the Arbiter of Everything, I hereby declare that low-slung trousers have gone low enough. At the point where your belt is below your buttocks, it is silly and you should stop it and remember where your hips are.

Is that clear, everyone ? Good.

Comments

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I was most amused when out on Friday night, and during a rather bouncy energetic song, someones trousers finally had enough and made a bid for the floor. He seemed suitably embarassed by it.

(Btu I agree, it is silly)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I'm glad to hear that such a thing has finally occurred.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Presumably there's very little point in having a belt unless it can sit above a larger-diameter bit. Otherwise it's just extra weight, and potentially counterproductive.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I have to concede, I have been on the verge of asking complete strangers what keeps their trousers up - I just don't see how they stay there when they are belted round a straight or even tapering part of the leg.

I haven't asked so far, but I may crumble eventually.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I assume it's friction, in which case a sufficiently tight and sufficiently light belt might help, but a heavy thing won't.

[reddragdiva]

Just wait until a tuft of bush at the front, suitably styled and coloured, is deemed fashionable.

[eviltwinemma.livejournal.com]

Bleeee! It's already bad enough dealing with the visible bits of thongs on people who should NEVER wear them - sometimes it's like looking at the bits of string that tie a rolled pork roast together.

[reddragdiva]

It's even more so when they don't bother with the thong. Just low pants and arsecrack (with tattoo above) shining light across the world.

[venta.livejournal.com]

That always makes me want to drop things down said arsecrack. Usually peanuts, since they tend to be readily available in pubs/clubs.

[eviltwinemma.livejournal.com]

Biros are quite good for that :-)

[marjory.livejournal.com]

Or else one could take the Pollyanna point of view and rejoice in the discovery of a new place in which to park your bike.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

on people who should NEVER wear them

That there's flamewar talk !

[eviltwinemma.livejournal.com]

Heh. Given that at the moment I am essentially troll-shaped and insist on continuing to wear the things because they're comfy, but never wear low-rider jeans (in fact hardly ever wear low-rider anything in public anymore), you may be right. I got the pork/string thing from looking down.
People who should never wear thongs - thirteen-year-old girls, as a part of School Uniform. Usually the Diamante VeryThinString Ones. Discuss.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Fear the rise of the merkin!

I think waistlines should have stopped descending around 2004. (I've nothing 'gainst a muffintop though!)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

That must catch in buttonholes something rotten.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Zips. Ooch.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, a colleague of mine did claim he'd seen certain of the young ladies of Reading attempting to emulate a Christina Aguilera album cover (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B00006L71B/ref=dp_image_text_0/026-8986955-6132454?ie=UTF8) in a manner he wished they wouldn't.

[reddragdiva]

There are outfits where you can tell the person needed to shave an inch off the top to wear it that low.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

At the point where your belt is below your buttocks, it is silly

Can you please make an exception for when I need to use the toilet ?

(Respond ASAP, or I may have to choose between being silly and having a little accident !)

[venta.livejournal.com]

I do apologise for the misunderstanding. My proscription on the southwards-tendency of belts referred only to the location when in the "wear" position. While trousers are being donned, doffed, or lowered for purposes where the wearer deems such a thing necessary there are no rules attached to the necessary vertical position of the belt.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Phew, thanks, just in time !

[reddragdiva]

If one is on the toilet then it's the subject of a bum joke, and those are inherently funny.

[uitlander]

Your taste, as always, is impeccable.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately that reasoning may only work if you can first persuade them to have hips.

[kissifa.livejournal.com]

I was amused/alarmed when riding down Cowley road to be over-taken by the swaying behind of a young gentleman on a BMX bike. He was riding in that weird standing position BMX riders do, and his jeans belt was indeed below his arse. The interesting thing was I wasn't sure whether I was looking at his underwear, or whether the manufacturers have actually gotten wise to the foibles of their stylistically challenged consumers, and whether, like you can get blouses pre-sewn into jumpers, you can get low-rider jeans with prepared arse-cover pouches, that extend, clinging to the hips, as the jeans sink down.

If they have I applaud them. If I was looking at his underwear, I feel icky.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Taking this to its logical extreme one could have a pair of "inner trousers" worn to prevent the waist-down nudity which might otherwise be cause by the associated "outer trousers" being literally around the wearer's ankles !

[kissifa.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! The days of fashionable leggins return!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, according to my up-to-the-minute fashion-tips (courtesy of Elle magazine), leggings are the thing for this season.

Under skirts, I think, rather than under falling-down trousers, but y'know. It's a step.

Builder's Bum and Tennis Elbow

[marjory.livejournal.com]

T'other night in the pub there was a couple with his'n'hers matching bum cleavage (in extremis. If buttocks had nipples, they would have been all but apparent.). They were sat on the stools at the bar just opposite where we were sitting and, as with many unnnerving sights, I had to work hard to tear my eyes away. I kind of wished that I'd had a camera with me.