May 01, 2006

• ""They're a lot more comfortable," Leblanc said. "Especially the stretch kind. It doesn't make sense to me why they don't make guy pants the same." Uh, they do. Jeez, you know I hate being 10 years ahead of fashion. I was doing the wearing women's clothing thing when I was in college & I just kept getting beaten off.
• Beaten UP. Beaten UP, goddamn it.
• This isn't new. New York Dolls, anyone?
• My thoughts: (1) I have never been able to tell the difference between women's and men's jeans. Except when it's got embroidery on the back pocket. This fashion is sort of like wearing no underwear underneath. (2) I hate news sites because they never offer pictures larger than 150 pixels wide. This is one of them.
• If the Anarchy Club hears about this, these guys are going to be in deep shit.
• Half of me is pointing and doing my Nelson "ha ha!" laugh and the other half is saying, "Well, anything to get them away from wearing those goddamn hugely baggy low-rider pants that have been so popular the last 15 goddamn years."
• I wear men's trousers because they last longer. Women's trousers are usually much more flimsy in construction.
• I'm just puzzled over the source. LSU's got to be one of the most conservative universities in the US, (Dick Cheney's giving the commencement speech this year, Bush gave it last year). The arts/punk/music community is minuscule there (they all live within 4 blocks of my house). How in the hell is this happening in Baton Rouge? Or, is this just some: "two guy I know did this, and therefore it's a trend" article?
• When you and your sister go to the show wearing the same outfit, one of you is not dressed in an appropriate manner. Looks to me like this "girl pants" fad is sort of... well, perhaps indicative of some deeper issues our little hardcore/grindcore boys haven't faced about themselves?
• guys wearing girls clothes? I'm not so sure about this...
• seriously tho...froggy...it's just fabric. the kids today are just trying to 'freak you out, man' hey giantS...do you happen to live anywhere near the deaf valley shell station? that's where all the skaters used to hang out...I bet one or two of them are wearing ladies pants...
• I've noticed that tight pants are in with the local hardcore kids, and attributed it to the fact that they are all about bicycles these days. Wearing tighter jeans allows them to ride without rolling up or tying their right pant leg. When you're on a fixed-gear bike (and you know they all are), clothes caught in the chain can be more than a nuisance.
• Monkeyfilter:I just kept getting beaten off.
• As a comment and as a guy that has tried girls clothes on-- Skirts just totally own all guys clothing. Seriously, I'm not crazy.
• Five to one baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive, yeah.
• I'm probably comitting some sort of cardinal sin by commenting without reading the article, but... I've observed this since I started attending public school. I don't know about the university level, but from what I've observed here in high school is that the rise in the popularity of girl's jeans on guys has been directly proportional to the rise of "scene bisexuality," where people "become" bisexual partly because everyone else/their favourite band members are doing it (and partly, of course, because they just got broken up with by someone of the opposite sex, their lives suck, the whole bag). Most of the people that don't belong to this "fashioncore"/post-hardcore/slasher emo scene that I know that wear tight or girl's pants are skater punks. Most of the skater punk-types that I know complain that the "fashioncore" kids "stole" their "look" by suddenly all deciding to wear girl's pants at once. Then again, this is high school.
• guys wearing girls clothes? I'm not so sure about this... Brilliant, sexyrobot, absolutely brilliant. I wish I could give you comment of the year, but all I have are these bannanas: ☽☽☽
• Vertex: If you do one, you need to do both: MonkeyFilter: "They get a little tight in the crotch every now and then, but that's to be expected." Chy: HA HA! Talk about your basic Freudian slip!! Oh, gimmie a break. It's just fabric. Like most people can tell the difference. My gosh! The buttons are attached on the right and not the left. Whatever shall we do? When they DON'T have pants on, that's when you worry.
• -Ahem- I belive they misspelled emo.
• I recently bought a new pair of Levi's ``Relaxed Fit'' men's jeans. The tag says 99% cotton, 1% Spandex. So, yeah, they make stretchy guy pants, too. (Also, the most comfortable pair of trousers I've ever worn.) Vertex, I hear you. I wore a kilt to a Monkey wedding last year. It just beat the pants off ... pants.
• It's already shown up in my neck of the woods, which means that this trend is officially over, and no longer hip by at least three months. One of our local emos was at the bar on Friday, wearing girl's jeans. Lowriders, at that. Came up to below the halfway mark of his ass. I assume -- he was one of these emos who is so skinny so as to have no discernable ass at all, but if he did have one, it wouldn't have reached above the downswell of his ass. Needless to say, he wasn't on the dancefloor, but stood in front of the speaker pouting.
• I don't really get the whole emo thing, nor am I really interested in trying, but they sort of seem, to me, like goths who dress really poorly... /sort-of recovered goth girl who like, actually remembers the 80s cause I wasn't BORN in them. harump!
• I hate stretchy jeans. When I buy a pair of tight jeans, it's because I want THEM to shape MY flaccid corpse, not the other way 'round. And they get all baggy at the knees by midday. 'Course, if I had my way I'd be in a flannel nightgown 24/7.
• I like stretchy jeans, but mostly because they're more comfortable when I ride my bike. I do have to wash them more because they stretch out so quickly, but it might be worth it for the comfy-ness.
• I already did this when I swam in my inlaw's pool in Florida. Why then? Because I had brought no suit and was forced to choose between the long style surfer 'parachute' gear, or, the only other option, girl's swim bottoms. So I did that. I wanted to swim, not bag out and sink. Plus, they actually do look O.K., according to my Mother-in-law. So there.
• wow...
• now, medusa, be nice...put a positive spin on things. They're not goths who dress really poorly...they're hippies, with haircuts.
• hippies with hair dye... hippies who bathe (I think?)... regardless, I still feel a lack of interest, they are not nearly so hip as Your Robotness ;)