Dropped Crotch Fashion Disaster

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Dropped Crotch Fashion Disaster

by ianrthorpe @ 2009-03-20 – 15:58:27

Not long ago on an American blog I contribute to occasionally I referred to that bizarre fashion among young American males for wearing trousers five sizes too big so that when these young guys walk down the street their bum cleaveage shows and the arse piece of their pants drags on the ground.

The fashion troubles me to be honest. Are we breeding a race of morons, has exposure to Beavis and Butthead at an early age triggered some terrible psychological disorder? Has the GM bit in GM food sold in America caused these lads to mutate, driving evolution into reverse and creating a new breed of Neanderthals? Have the dorks that wear these stupid pans cooked their brains by having mobile phones clamped permanently to their ears while wearing those silly little woollen retard hats, thus stopping heat escaping through the top of their skull?

Apparently not. The trousers are designed to look like that and people are paying an arm and a leg for them. One stroppy little fascionista haughtily informed me that the look is a protest against poverty (hence the enormous cost of course: “Mum, Dad, I have to make a statement against poverty, buy me some ridiculously expensive silly trousers NOW!) and also the marginalisation of the young from mainstream society.

Yeah Right.

My advisor on all things pants also informed me that the style is correctly referred to as “dropped crotch trousers” and to write of “five-sizes-too-big-pants-for-knobheads” is insulting. Unfortunately he go no bonus marks because he failed to spot the insulting sarcasm was intentional.

Well I can take criticism and welcome diverse opinions but if Mr. My-Clothes-Are-My-Primary-Method-Of-Communication would like to come round my house I’ll be glad to kick him in the bollocks so he may appreciate what a dropped crotch truly means.

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14 Comments to Dropped Crotch Fashion Disaster

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- pompeycaulkhead
- 2009-03-20 @ 16:11:24
Just relax in the knowledge than in 20 years time the aforementioned oik will see a photo of himself and say "you know what? I was a complete twat"!!!!!
- - ianrthorpe
  - 2009-03-20 @ 16:43:36
  Well I can comfort myself with that I suppose. but, I mean, loons were dead smart weren't they
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- Middleagedbloke ^Pro
- 2009-03-20 @ 17:24:07
Oh you old hippy, everyone knows bondage pants were the only thing to wear!!
- - ianrthorpe
  - 2009-03-20 @ 18:31:47
  I am an anarchyst,
  I am the antichrist....etc
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- rithompson
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/rithompson/
- 2009-03-20 @ 20:42:01
My clothes are a method of communication - doesn't mean I spend stupid money on them!
- - ianrthorpe
  - 2009-03-21 @ 16:16:31
  Do you wear dungarees and a lumberjack shirt in real life Ros?
  - - rithompson
    - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rithompson/
    - 2009-03-21 @ 16:34:52
    Don't be silly. What would give you that idea?!
    - - ianrthorpe
      - 2009-03-21 @ 16:48:44
      Well that's what your avatar wears and internet avatars are supposed to be a representation of ourselves.
      
      Personally I follow the advice a poets gave to somebody who asked what Shakespeare really looked like.
      "If you want to know the man, don't look at portraits, read his works."
      
      Coz I don't really wear stripey T shirts all the time
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- geppebba (Visitor)
- http://www.geppebba.com/
- 2009-03-20 @ 20:44:57
Hello Ianrthorpe,
I can understand you very well - and I´m interested in what you think about apparel per time when you see this picture ?
http://www.diegilde-rpg.de/images/fnz/Pluderhose.jpg

bigballsneedroom
yours
geppebba
- - NotBob ^Pro
  - 2009-03-20 @ 22:36:57
  Even in their time I expect those looked stoopid!
  - - ianrthorpe
    - 2009-03-21 @ 16:26:56
    Not Bob,
    
    Be fair, it was pretty hard not to look stupid in those days. They had not really got their heads round clothes design had they?
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- - ianrthorpe
  - 2009-03-21 @ 16:15:03
  I wholly agree, big balls do need room and the two jolly looking gentlemen pictured wearning very silly trousrrs reminded me of that great charcter Buster Gonad in the Viz comic strip Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles.
  
  Elizabethan Pataloons are hard to fing in carttonland and dropped crotch trousers, though they hang low, do not really offer any more ball room than ordinary jeans. Thus poor Buster has to carry his bollocks around in a wheelbarrow.
  
  What i omitted to mention in the original article is that far from being an anarchic fashion styatement for the young, dropped crotch trousers have for decades been worn by senile old men to accommodate their dropped scrotums.
  To learn more CLICK HERE and go to Attack Of The Killer Trousers
  
  Can't find a picture but read a biography of Buster Gonad at Wikipedia
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- geppebba (Visitor)
- http://www.geppebba.com
- 2009-07-27 @ 22:07:16
Everywere you can see adornments (as fashion is for sure a signal and statement, as you already commented..) and they are important for human beings - I think you can understand this like a biologist as a criteria for partner selection...evolved by natural evolution - so maybe the signal to wear trousers up is (that is the contrast in your argumentation because as you can see at the killer trousers picture - they don`t hang low..
Don't leave Grandad alone, feed him testosterone... -or they just used to wear it like this.... or their spine sink down as intervertebral disk degeneration and so it becomes to that special optic.... Fashion is an aesthetic kind of view - it`s an air bubble and I was a long time thinking about the question:
Who`s granny has ever understood why today`s youth drop their pants? But now these drop crotch type of trousers have a comeback with new designs ! And I must confess now, we do no collections, but only one pair of trousers since 2003. Because at some point it must come that obvious needs effect specific products. So we have been mentally in the future and explained a possible effect of the "Baggy" phenomenon. We needed an expression for it because it became a real adventure and strong force that pushed us to realise our ideas... So what is actually innovation in the fashion world? Strauss & Davis took out a patent for gold diggers who needed solid trousers called „Gênes“ manufactured with „Serge de Nîmes“ (studded blue jeans). They were used as a symbol for the liberation from conventions and became big in the fashion world. Some people say, today every style is parallel or garments were already existing, in a world of randomness of collections following the principle of comebacks. But you can find good concepts, brilliant fashion, tremendous talents, creative minds and master craftsmen. But as bloody beginners, we wanted an approximation of a perfect and timless design. Functional properties should be filtered through an evolutionary process, implemented by the principle of "form follows function". Not only something nice under the aspect of xy, or turning trousers itself upside down. Starting point is that, the quality of the fabric defines the voguish and functional scopes, whether you put a pocket on the side or design whatever, a tight or a loose cut. This means that the terminology or the silhouette of trousers in the western aesthetic is firmly defined and therefore always the same - two long legs - but the essential know-how of a second oriental type, the saourel, harem pants or fisher trousers, etc., is the extremely pleasant comfort. Basically two types of trousers, where one is more traditionally shaped and the other is highly differentiated by e.g. "finishings" or „destroyed looks“. But what does it mean to walk "baggy" along the streets, even in bavarian „Lederhosen“ to the Oktoberfest or in skinny jeans? You know, those habits can be observed. What should be Streetwear more, than the sympathy for the last decades? Aesthetic barriers are dismantled international and there are rude discussions about the taste of diverse drop crotch and harem pants, although MC Hammer is recommended as pionier. So we just go down in the mass of labels. Our experience in the fashion business is, nobody wants to take a risk, not an innovation or even an unknown label. With our student jobs we financed our "Search for the Ultimate Trousers" and changed our lives subsequently. Please don`t see this as a story of a couple, there is a lot more which has to fit. In many aspects we touched our limits, as we were testing over years, creating our picture and finally suprised our own imagination we had before. We feel grateful for our friends and our luck. But who can understand and recognize that? I found your article and I immediately knew I like to proof my ideas on your citical test bench... because the question arises what we are actually doing, or how we could get into that struggle? Because it began so easy in Sidi Kaouki, in the summer of 2003, in that big wide bay at the atlantic coastline, in magic and mystical Morocco. Ebba and I stayed there for two and half months windsurfting every day. Abdulha, not only a busy business man, always came over to our tent, which you were able to build up direct on the beach and wanted to sell us his bits and bobs....The landscape, the climate, the friendly locals, the sea, the whole mix of influences, something happened there. So after 2 months totally washed by the waves, sanded by the wind and with a few arabic words talking about some things, our eyes stucked focusing on Abdulha`s fine trousers. A pair of blue Tuareg trousers with a traditional embroidery, in an effect of noble and casual. But on repeated requests he didn`t like to break up with them. Of course we understand that, because who would spontaneously sell his own trousers? We had tried in vain, to find such a quality - Well, otherwise, he always wanted to sell everything he had! In Africa, there is plenty of time for thoughts. So these "biped - wrappings" had to be made by ourselves and because Ebba is good in sewing and knitting, she copied the cut of these trousers for a template. So that was the point when it actually started as my custom desires met Ebba`s ideas of design. At that time we did not know that we will go one step after the other and it will mesmerizing us for years and we will work and think for it day after day.
Ianrthorpe,
cheers from
ebba & geppetto
- - ianrthorpe
  - 2009-07-28 @ 15:27:40
  A well argued response, thanks.
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