Please pull up your pants good sir

[Loop Stricken]

From what I've gathered "observing" the people at my school it has strong connections with "Gang culture".

Because, y'know, gangsters are cool, and to be like them is cool.

Oh yeah, getting shot at; who doesn't aspire to such giddying heights?

 

[ChupathingyX]

From what I've gathered "observing" the people at my school it has strong connections with "Gang culture".

Because, y'know, gangsters are cool, and to be like them is cool.

Oh yeah, getting shot at; who doesn't aspire to such giddying heights?

Sometimes I feel like there are some people who want to be shot, just so they can parade around and decalre themselves "bulletproof" or something like that.

 

[Dr Bodom]

Well, my best mate does, and when I quizzed him about it I was told that it allows him to wear VERY skinny jeans without constricting his junk. Fair point, but for that reason I tend to stick to normal jeans.

 

[Kae]

I have no idea but people who wear pants like that look like they pooped their pants, wait a minute!
I've got it! I think it's a style that was invented by some dude that pooped his pants and pretended he did it because it was stylish instead of admitting what had happened.
Mystery solved, I think.

 

[Akimoto]

I have no fucking idea why people do this.

Copy-Paste and multiply. Thankfully I don't see this very often but sometimes it involves a slim/skinny guy who bought a size too large. I don't know what made them buy larger sized pants but I do know it tends to show off skin and brand i.e Hilfigers. I guess guys also have image issues like girls - one guy I know likes to complain he is fat and tends to wear slightly loose pants.

 

[Metalix Knightmare]

*Edited for continuing a debunked tall tale*

Honestly, I don't have a bloody clue. I'd blame the Juggalos myself but I don't think this would even occur to them as a thing.

They'd still do it once they found out of course. I'm not giving them too MUCH credit.

 

[Guffe]

Due to the fact I am female I try not to feature my panties to everyone who just so happens to walk by.

You don't? That's blasphemy!

On Topic

Sory I can't be of use here.
I use a belt, that helps a lot when it comes to not showing my boxers to everyone.

 

[RaffB]

Fashion baffles me....

Although, I pretty much permanently wear the following, so not a big follower of fashion anyway..

Armoured Motorcycle Jeans
Some form of t-shirt
Whatever jacket I'm using at the time (again, normally armoured)
Motorcycle Boots..

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

I hate people who walk around like that... they just look so stupid. And personally I get extremely aggravated when my pants begin to slip from my waist, I cant understand how someone could walk around all day with their clothing perilously close to falling off like that.

 

[Kae]

The trend, BTW, isn't just isolated to the ghetto-chic-iness of Hip Hop culture. It's actually fairly prevalent in the Skater culture of California and Arizona. I get this even less, because unless their mom took the time to hem their pants, the pants are bound to get caught in a wheel.

I wouldn't be surprised if the trend, which apparently originated in "gangland," started for more utilitarian reasons. You're a dealer, you need to hide your product on your person. Sagging, loose pants are less likely to give the location of where you stashed your product on your personage. There are less likely to be bulges pointing out the fact the your Glock is nestled in your butt crack. The lower you wear your pants, the more storage space you have. This makes it that the pants become so ill fitting that you NEED to wear the belt. So now you have to make sure that your boxers are visible because I believe it's a faux-pas to show ass crack in "Gangland."

Of course fashion spreads like a virus with its head cut off and you have this look that has spread to other groups. Kind of like how it's cute to have a jeweled brass knuckles necklace charm now.

Well that actually explains pretty much everything even the looking like they went to the toilet on their pants, and it just makes so much sense.
I mean it does really sound like the kind of thing that would be done to hide stashes of drugs on you're person, specially since the only thing everyone seems to agree on is that it's a mode that came from gangsters .

 

[Seanfall]

I Heard it started in prisons to let other guys know you where available for sex. And Yes I think it's stupid. If you have to run at all you either have to hold you pants up with one hand...or fall flat on your face. And also you must be REALLY OKAY with your ass to want everyone to see it.

 

[Neonit]

why, i think its stupid. im 19 years old and i wear my pants the "obelix-style" meaning NO chance at all ANYONE will see MY buttocks! even old people look at me weird xD

my bet is, like other people mentioned, that it is mainly to "fit in". so basically no reason at all....

as to multicolored boxers... well.... here is an picture of a peacock

you see what i mean?

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

I wear pants my size, but I tend to wear shirts smaller than some males do. Mostly because I'm in between sizes. I'm 25 years old, but they never carry shirts in my size (small) so I end up getting boys large which is slightly smaller.

I don't like baggy shirts because I feel fat and I'd like to wear clothes that fit me right before I have to start wearing clothes that are too big because I'm fat.

My pants never go below my hips though so you'd never see my boxers.

 

[ChaoticKraus]

Most people seems to blame it on hip-hop, but as a person who hangs around those circles i gotta say that i havent seen much of it. Neither can i say i reca.ll seeing any famous rappers wearing their pants like that, the only exception being the video for "Pe$o" by ASAP Rocky. Around here i'd sat its more common on the skaters and sports kids.

As for reasons, my best guess is that you want to assert your dominance and show your disdain for authorithy by showing your ass to the world. But since getting arrested sucks, you have to compromise and just show your boxers.

 

[Hellz_Barz]

As some one who actually wore baggy pants in my teenage years, I really like the way the hem looked all saggy on top my white sneakers. also my boxers never showed with baggy jeans cause I wore a belt like most people do(you know in case I need to actually move in my teenage escapades). on another note if your doing it right even with baggy pants they shouldn't be showing cause you should have an equally large shirt.

Nowadays I mostly see undies showing on metros/hipsters wearing skinny jeans. Hard as f-word finding decent baggies these days, it's all skinny jeans in the big name shops.

 

[dvd_72]

I have been told that wearing your pants like that was an indication in the US prisons that one was up for a bit of back door action.

Now, probably all of the people that subscribe to this fashion are unaware of this, but it always makes me snicker inside when I see it now. It's a stupid thing to do, and I have no idea what possesses a man do display his undies in such a fashion other than simple social pressures (which, let's face it, never make any sense at all!)

 

[FamoFunk]

I have been told that wearing your pants like that was an indication in the US prisons that one was up for a bit of back door action.

Ninja'd.

Makes me laugh when I see people wearing jeans like it, because I just assume they're publicly looking for some butt sex.

 

[Rblade]

why do people put their hat on top of their hair instead of their head?
why do people wear sunglasses inside the house?

because they think it makes them look "gangsta"

and probably because some famous douchebag started doing it.

and if it comes to comfort. Everyone dresses to impress else everyone would walk around in hoodies sweatpants and sneakers. Because I think you can safely say whatever you decide to put on when you roll out of bed with a killing hangover, with no intention of leaving the house except for maby a subway. Is probably the most comfortable thing you own.