Pull 'em up!
I'm afraid it's got to stop.
This thing with the trousers of the young.
You must have seen them, half-mast isn't the word,
sometimes they're barely off the ground.
Now I'm all for fashion, goodness knows I've been a victim
myself; gold silk shirt and cravat, anyone? But at least the fashions of days
gone by weren't quite so impractical as having your trousers fall down as you
try and cross the road (I saw this happen!).
Yes OK, a few people may have fallen off their 9" heels in the
seventies and those punk safety-pins were a menace, but most of the clothes
stayed in place, the trousers of today have a mind of their own.
Not only are they a danger to road-crossers, or indeed anyone
who has to make a quick getaway, but they are a danger to health in other ways.
The newspaper this weekend reported the demise of a young lad whose baggy
trousers caught around the pedals of his bike causing him to veer into the path
of an oncoming car.
There are less drastic health issues too. I recently saw, in the
distance, a young (ish) woman standing in the street wearing a pink belt. As I
came closer I realised that it wasn't a pink belt but her midriff, which was
bright pink with the raw chill of a March morning. Closer still and I had a
rather disturbing view of her "builders bottom" as we call it here (ass-crack
to you!). Not nice.
My old mum always made sure I was properly wrapped up when I
went out on a cold morning lest I get a chill. I guess that woman's kidneys
were halfway to deep-frozen by the time she got home.
Young women have generally exhibited this sort of impractical
behaviour in the cause of fashion. Queues outside nightclubs in February have
always been a festival of goose-pimples as the barely-clad lovelies refuse to
make concessions to the season. But at least their tiny hot-pants were properly
affixed!
These days though, it's the boys too. In fact they are the worst
offenders. Who wants to see what kind of underpants the paper-boy is wearing?
At least builders have an excuse, their bellies are so large that the jeans of
their youth just aren't the right shape any more, there's not enough material
to cover the wobbly expanse. Young, slim men have no such problem, but they go
and by a trouser at least four sizes too big and let it perch precariously on
what buttocks they have. The unfortunates with minimal buttocks are forever
tugging at their garments to prevent collapse.
It may be cool to have the trousers fashionably loose, but to
have them round your ankles is always a fashion faux-pas.
So boys and girls, I give you the next fashion accessory...
braces!
They will allow anyone to wear the most gigantic trousers possible,
without them falling down.
I'm off the flog the idea to Gap.
Later note; Damn! I have just seen a girl walking up the street
with braces attached to her jeans, but left dangling down uselessly... I give
up!
© Winamop. March 2007
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