[MississippiMan]

I heard recently of some city that passed a law banning "jailing," which is the wearing of pants that are falling off you, exposing your underwear, etc. (The term comes from the fact that inmates' pants fall off because their belts are taken away.) The fine was only $50, but hey, it's a start.

I needed a coupla pair of jeans last week and in the end I gave up and bought Levi's, even though it pained me to donate money to one of the most liberal companies around. I didn't have time to run from store to store looking for a plain fricking pair of jeans! Everything is either shaped huge like a pair of balloons, or has gaudy designs, or some coloring that makes them look filthy, etc. etc. I wanted PLAIN JEANS. Sheesh.

MM

[Chef Dajuan]

It was tried in both Cleveland heights and somewhere in Virginia.

In both cases the laws failed to pass in the face of lawsuit threats.

technically, dressing is a form of self-expression, and you run smack into Number One.

[Jaysun]

I heard recently of some city that passed a law banning "jailing," which is the wearing of pants that are falling off you, exposing your underwear, etc. (The term comes from the fact that inmates' pants fall off because their belts are taken away.) The fine was only $50, but hey, it's a start.

Oh, I forgot about the boy's part in the madness. Thanks. My nephew showed up at our house for a Christmas party last year wearing a pair of jeans so large that it looked like a family of Mexicans had just moved out of the ass end of them. I went berserk and the whole affair finally ended with my wife running to Wal-Mart to buy him a pair of pants that actually fit.

[Xenalyte]

Whiling away the time in the Salt Lake City airport waiting for Xena's Guy's family to arrive last Christmas, I was on the phone with Bacon Man (who was helping me conduct some covert Christmas-present espionage) and spied a young man whose pants were so low that - well, I can't tell you the comparison I was about to make.

Suffice to say that a good deal more than half his hiney was aired.

I was edging up behind him to give him the mother of all wedgies when he sat down. Damn the luck.

(I've wondered since how his parents, who were sitting right there and clearly had no problem with him displaying more than 60% of his buttock area, would have taken me doing that.)

[labard1]

Surely you can buy jeans from that good Southern company, VF Corp. Its main brands are Lee and Wrangler, and it is as conservative as Levi Strauss is liberal. WalMart carries them, as do Target and Sears. Its prices are always below Levi's, as well.