While most of us try to be opened minded about youth fashion these days, some things just leave us old fogeys rubbing our heads trying to figure out some meaning to all this madness. The list of these things we can't understand is long, but nothing is more confusing than the desire to wear pants so big that they mysteriously stay up, but not before exposing inches of boxer shorts.
Before we criticize, though, we must recall that our own parents weren't too big on rock and roll, long hair and just about anything else we wore or did. That's probably true of every generation since Adam and Eve looked at their offspring and asked, "Where in the world do you think you're going wearing that?"
That said, even our bell-bottom jeans fit us to some extent at the waist. And no one could accuse us of "enough room to carry our lunch" in the seats of our trousers. In fact, our pants were possibly too tight. But nothing's tighter than many of the jeans and shorts teen-age girls are wearing these days. But let's not digress. The real issue we're talking about are the droopy drawers so many teen-age boys are wearing.
There's no way having jeans riding that low is comfortable. In fact, having the pant's crotch at about knee level is a bit restricting for, say, chasing girls. But in their world, baggy is better. It just doesn't make sense to anyone with a lick of sense.
Perhaps the best thing we can do, other than make our kids buy better-fitting pants, is to take plenty of photographs of them wearing the latest trend. Then make sure to save them. Because if there's anything us old fogeys learned long ago it's that those teen-age photos always generate red faces a couple of decades later. And nothing is more fun than to show those silly photographs to their own children.
Those of us with kids in school already hear plenty about the short shorts we used to wear. Just watch them chuckle when film clips of basketball players from the 1980s or before are shown on TV. They nearly fall off the couch laughing, asking how in the world we could ever wear such things.
So gulp hard, take the photos and wait. Revenge will be amazingly sweet.
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