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It's extremely rare for me to laugh while driving, but the other day when I was driving past the Sonic hamburg drive-in joint, I saw this young guy wearing huge baggy pants heading that way.

What made me laugh was the way he was mincing toward the Sonic like a geisha girl. He had to take small steps because the waist of his pants was at his knee level (literally). Muy macho.

[And I apologize if any of you wear your pants that way.]

That made me laugh just envisioning it Peeps...where do they get their very uncool "cool" ideas from? :cool:

My husband describes these contemporary urban youth fashions as "See how useless I am." The sleeves that go past the fingertips, the shoelaces untied, etc.

It's kind of a twisted version of Thorstein Veblen's "conspicuous consumption." "I am so highly valued and not required to work that I dress conspicuously to highlight my status."

Laura Brand-Bauer wrote:"I am so highly valued and not required to work that I dress conspicuously to highlight my status."

I thought it was more along the lines of, "There is NO way I'm getting a job, so scr*w it ... "

Robin Garr wrote:I thought it was more along the lines of, "There is NO way I'm getting a job, so scr*w it ... "

All in the eye of the beholder

My uncle tells me that most of his fiends who are still on the force (he's a disabled state parole officer) love the lastest fashions since it's not as uncommon as one would think for a suspect to trip over their own pants while trying to escape. Makes you wonder where their brains are. Then again, when they're dressed like that, maybe not .