Pant-O-Mine

Disclaimer: The following article has been written by an old guy who has never publicly worn his pants lower than his underwear, who has never rapped a day in his life, has never called his wife Shawty, and is totally oblivious to the so called "thug life" but does recognize a bad fitting pair of pants when he sees them.<br /> <br /> Been out to the mall lately? If you have not, you owe it to yourself to do so. It is quite an entertaining show. I am a child of the sixties, so outlandish fashion is not unfamiliar to me. However, bellbottoms, tie-dye shirts and stack shoes don't hold a candle to what we have on parade these days. On a recent outing, I literally spent my entire afternoon sitting on a bench and watching the heaps of denim, all piled on top of tennis shoes, as the wearer of said jeans struggled to keep their "crack high" pants up with one hand and still be able to gesture like a real thug with the other, all the while taking some very short steps due to the descending knee level crotches that the style provided. It looked like a combination of some bad fitting pants and an old fashion bag race gone bad. It was like looking at one of the fun mirrors at the carnival. Their torsos were very, very, long but their legs were very, very short. I haven't seen that much crack since my last tour of the evidence room.<br /> <br /> I don't get the attraction, the style or the commitment that it took to walk in this difficult fashion. God forbid if a fire alarm were to go off in the mall. All of those short little legs bound by cloth that barely allowed a full step, much less a sprint to the exit. It would have been ugly!<br /> <br /> I understand that this style originated from the prison system where inmates were not allowed belts and therefore their pants were always sagging. The traditional waist level pants were out and the crack level pants were in. As much as I don't understand the look, I don't understand the fascination and imitation to a style that began by prison inmates. If they will check a little more thoroughly, there are several other things that take place in prison, but I'm not too sure that they would want to imitate those activities. Also, while probably unintended, their lowered waist line which created the shorter strides is very remindful of the short steps taken by some inmates. But, the short strides of inmates are caused by ankle shackles, not sagging pants. I wonder if that is the next fad coming our way

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