Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 19, 2010

Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, looking like a fool with your pants on the ground …

Preach on Brother Bert preach on!

LOL! Brilliant!

Not only are they ugly, but their mama dresses them funny.

In Chi-town you get shot for that.

I second that LuvH8!

Bib overalls are not a great fashion statement either; both of you need a style makeover.

each generation tries to shock the previous one. considering what ours did, i guess the only possibility left for today’s kids is absolute lunacy…

at least this way they’re more likely to wear clean underwear…

I always wanna tell people with monroes that it looks like acne . Gee that’s a shiny metallic zit .

I SOOOOO want to do this!!!! Hahahaha….

At least Bert is doing something useful with his retirement!

look closer, guys. those are suppenders, not bib overalls. pacejv…..in chi-town you can get shot for just about anything.

I had a good friend in Charleston who had to take on raising her 13 year old grandson…within three weeks, his underwear was hidden, his cap kep the sun out of his eyes, and the cuffs of his jeans were not being walked on…what a transformation!!! He was actually a pretty good looking kid after she got him straightened up.

I had a good friend in Charleston who had to take on raising her 13 year old grandson…within three weeks, his underwear was hidden, his cap kep the sun out of his eyes, and the cuffs of his jeans were not being walked on…what a transformation!!! He was actually a pretty good looking kid after she got him straightened up.

My figure is my fashion statement! [Wolf-Whistle]

They say that the Saggy Pants are a prison look.

My response was, “If your pants weren’t hanging down around your knees, you would have been able to run fast enough to have avoided prison.”

The other day, I saw a kid walk, in clothes like that, to a dumpster where he was gonna toss in the trash. He opened the lid, hefted the bag, and, I swear to God, his drawers dropped and he mooned the street life. No lie! I’m surprised none of the cars rear-ended the others. (But the speed limit is only 30, so…)

Married men should not let their wives dictate to them.

Darkeforce ~ Now, I am picturing guys walking around in pretty panties from Victoria’s Secret, with their pants halfway down their backsides!!!

Richard’s wife said it was ok for him to say that…

Watching a teen-ager hurrying to catch the bus and stopping every few steps to pull his pants up before they slipped over his butt/hips and fell to his ankles. I refrained from laughing out loud. That’d just make him more determined to hang on (pardon the pun) to his fashion statement.

I’d rather see the bib overalls than the baggy pants.

Prison style to gangs to gang wannabes to mainstream kids. Sad.

John McEnroe actually went off on a tennis pro wearing his cap backwards a couple years ago. Not that the idiot doesn’t go off at the hop of a flea anyway, but if the guy who’s fashion sense was the wild hair and the shorty shorts KNOWS YOU LOOK LIKE A FOOL, then you are really in trouble.

Heres’ some food for thought: Look up the history of zoot suits!

I once saw a kid trying to walk with his pants so low, he had to take little mincing steps since his knees were tangled up in the crotch of the pants. I felt like telling him I had seen girls walk more gracefully than him. But he was with a buddy and I wasn’t sure I wanted to chance it.

I absolutely hate the baggy pants thing!!!!!! My generation grew our hair long and the ones with curly hair had the naturals. We wore tie-dyed shirts and crazy looking leather jewelry and love beads. However, not once did we go around with our a$$e$ hanging out.(Woodstock not included) If these kids would just look at the best of the athletes that they look up to, not one of the best is seen dressed like that. It is the stupidest thing that I ever saw. It came from the weaker ones in prison being ready for the more dominant ones to do whatever.

Another theory is that as men get older, their pants start to get pulled higher up their torso. To rebel against that and appear “young,” kids pull their pants down.

The spammers just won’t give up. They’re hitting the Chicago Sun Times this morning as well. I’ve even seen their junk on local news web sites – anywhere there is a commenting section.

Spammers are getting bolder. I actually saw (and flagged) some.

Suspenders, Bibs, whatever. At least the undies are where they belong: UNDER the pants.

My son was accosted by a gang of thugs after school a few years ago. He wears his pants tight for skating (and they stay up). He managed to run away without giving up his wallet because none of the thugs could run and keep their pants up at the same time!

Bert’s assuming that they can READ. We know what assuming can do…

I love the sentiment but I’m sure we all looked like idiots to our parents/grandparents at one time or another. As a female I wince at the memory of the braless look and mini-skirts of the 60’s and early 70’s… One generation hikes hemlines up another lets them droop down and time marches on. Might as well smile and enjoy the humor of it all… Thanks Wiley!

Bert definitely doesn’t have bibs, but without bibs or suspenders, he would look like the kid on the street when he stands up. Maybe worse. “Plumber’s cleavage!”

@John Pike- are you sure about that? As I recall, there were hip-huggers, usually worn with a wide belt, but sometimes not. If underwear didn’t show, it was because most people went without.

Anyone tried teaching kids horseback riding lately? There are a number of good reasons why cowboys don’t sag.

I saw a young man pushing a stroller out of library story hour. Cute baby/toddler inside. Then I noticed this father figure was sporting the drooping drawers look. Now that was a sight to see! I wonder what the baby will wear 15 years from now to shock his parents?

We wore pegged pants as low as possible during the ‘50’s. The pegged cuffs were so tight you could just barely get your foot through. An old, female teacher in my JUNIOR HIGH school actually came up behind me and jerked my pants down!

LOLs! X-D Love it! If I were in that man’s shoes, I will!

My pop always used to wear the bib overall when he worked somethng at home. I had it but didn’t wear it that much.

Worst of these offenders are the late twenty-somethings that haven’t changed their look since Junior High. OMG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwhl4IrPNc eh, rayannina?

The less humanly practical it is, the greater the fashion statement….a trend that has been going on for centuries.

And the way today’s kids have shackled their ability to move, eat, see, or breath smoothly certainly verifies the trend.

I used to laughed (silently to myself, it was safer) at the wannabe gangstas who had to hitch up their pants to be able to get on the bus. On the other hand, I realized the value of the underwear above the waistband look the day a guy styling the plumber fit in pants pretty much mooned me when he sat down in a restaurant. (At which point I lost my appetite.) It may look silly, and I really don’t care to know what color their undies are, but at least it covers everything up!

The only thing weird about this pants fad is how long it has gone on. Over ten years now….Anything that bothers adults is cool to kids….

Wiley, you’re my hero.

zev.farkas said “at least they’re more likely to wear clean underwear.”

Ha, don’t I wish. There seems to be an epidemic down here in Louisiana of boys sagging their jeans while wearing NO underwear. While they tend to hold the pants up in front, I have been flashed by more bare bums than I care to count!

Don’t really care what they do when not working, but the waitress who flashed her thong undies and plumbers bum when she served my table was a definite turnoff regarding the food (not to mention the tip).

Popularity of boy shorts see G-string bring up rear Byline: By ERIN McCAFFERTY

AFTER years of riding high the bottom has finally dropped out of the thong market.

The tiny strip of panty material that took the fashion world by storm five years ago is starting to feel the pinch.

And in its place are boy shorts, which are fast becoming the lingerie of choice for modern Irish women.

Retail figures from market researcher Mintel show that women’s spending on thongs has dropped by 14 per cent since 2003 while sales of bigger pants have increased drastically over the last two years.

A store I stop at has a door sign that says “No Shoes No Shirt No Saggy Pants No Service Pull Em Up or Leave!”

Bert only needs the one sign….

dakrebs1 - that makes no sense - makes it sound like you have to have saggy pants.

As for backwards caps, I wore mine like that because with the sun at my back it kept my neck cool and prevented sunburn.

A fashion statement, or are these people telling us who they are?

NO BOY ‘ I knew as a kid growing up would be caught dead with a flat brimmed ball cap. It just wasn’t done. Anytime you got a new ball cap you started working on that bill to get the curve just right.’

Apparently, the cotton brief and pant manufactures have partnered to create this fashion statement. The briefs are often very colorful, the pants puddle on the wearers feet, and are often cargo pants. NOT something very many women are attracted to.

On the other hand those who choose to wear thongs, show a plumbers bum or wear sagging pants without underwear are exhibitionists.

Sad thing is, this is the generation that will be taking care of us in the nursing homes… if they can read the job app.

Just FYI: the saggy pants “prison look” comes from inmates not being allowed to wear belts (weapon or suicide) so their pants were always sagging low. Upon release they carried on the look so everyone knew where they’d been and knew they were bad a55. Fashion latches on to it and then you’re stuck with our current problem of idiots (with belts) wearing their pants so low they’re constantly in danger of falling down or the even worse latest fashion of the skin tight jeans worn low so it looks like a saggy, full diaper. That said; why do old men generally wear pants that rest almost under their armpits? Look at the fashion when they were young - zoot suits and other styles where the belt line usually ran somewhere in the vicinity of their belly button. Each generation has their own fashion and each generation has the right to look equally ridiculous. Mind you - that won’t stop me from ragging on the current crop of idiots who can’t break into a run without exposing themselves. :-)

Underwear belongs in Maxim. I don’t want to see this sort of thing on the street.