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It pisses me off to see a guy wearing pants so you can see his underwear...there is no point in it....its not attractive at all and makes them look very sloppy.
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huh?
there are alot of things that i do not like out there in "fashion land": mullets, those strange hairstyles that make folk look like poodle (short and curly on the top, longer on the bottom), photogrey glasses, vests with rhinestones, toby keith, mainstream country music in general--and in the bigger culture: tent revivals, televangelists, family programming, disney, mcdonalds...dave matthews...the list could go on and on...
i dont like these things--they sometimes even annoy me in an ignatius p reilly kinda way---but i dont imagine anyone trying to write--let alone try to pass---a law that would effectively criminalize any of these obvious taste breakdowns by fining people who indulge these trends amongst some white people.
it is funny that south carolina would focus on this particular mode of interacting with pants. or it could be funny, if it does not pass.
i wonder if it is some kind of andy-kauffman-style prank being played on the south carolina legislature.
or it could be something generated to counter the "urban lifestyle" that suburban and rural white people want to shelter their kids from.
i say the above because i ran into it with my brother, who asked me a couple years ago to not buy anything too baggy for his kids for xmas because they did not want them looking or becoming "too urban"---there was no mystery in what he meant. there is no mystery in what this legislation means either.
o brave new world
everyplace a new singapore.