This is what's wrong with the world. This is anti-fashion. It will officially be cemented in history that we are the most style-less generation ever.
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Let's delve into what's wrong with this, shall we? I'll start with a little bit of history:
In high school, they would tell us that it originated in prison where lesser inmates are made to wear their pants low so that the alpha males have "easy access" for sodomy. I'm fairly certain that this was falsified as a means to use underlying homophobia to scare us out of the trend. Well intentioned thought it may be, it's a little fucked up.
The derivation I'm prone to believe is socioeconomic. Ghettos are poor by definition. Inner-city families can't necessarily afford to buy new clothes for each child, so most of your clothes growing up are hand-me-downs that don't properly fit. Wearing pants that were too big were a sign that you had older brothers that would have your back if something happened to you, and conventional wisdom will tell you that the bigger the pants, the bigger the brothers. It was a defense mechanism that, after being processed through the pop culture filter, was misinterpreted as something that was just cool to do.
We on the same page?
I honestly thought we were past this. The crime against fashion is obvious. Purposefully wearing pants that are too big is just plain retarded. It's one thing when you're young and can't do anything to help it, but if you're a well-adjusted adult it's inexcusable. And come on, what happened to belts? The other crime is the exploitation. A grown man who obviously has the ingenuity to invent such a thing (and, let's be real, probably the money to buy clothes that fit if he has the capital to start in on such a business venture) exploiting an ill-advised trend is more than a little fucked up.
Seriously, if Macy's really starts carrying these, I will never step foot in that place again.
Kill. This.
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