Posted on 08/03/2003 9:42:49 AM PDT by Dog Gone
http://www.azcentral.com/style/articles/0612plumberbutt.html 'Plumber's butt' goes coed
Gina Daugherty
"Plumber's butt." You know, that blindingly pale patch of derriere that peeks out from between a shirt that rides up and pants that slide down. Most commonly seen when a beefy plumber or other worker reaches or squats while on the job. Most common until recently, that is. The effect is no longer just a boy's club, as women are baring their posteriors - sometimes intentionally, sometimes not - in the name of fashion. Low-rise jeans have booty poppin' out all over the place. Everyone is getting cheeky. Call it the new cleavage.
At Bee Clean Car Wash in Mason, Ohio, Annamarie Minturn and Cassie Thierauf, both 19, are baring their butts (albeit unintentionally) every time they lean over a car, bend down to vacuum or wipe down a tire. Thierauf's rhinestone-studded thong is there for all to see. She doesn't mean to, but when your pants hug your hips, it's bound to happen.
"It's not that I have them low so my thong can hang out," explains Thierauf. "It's a product of the pant." |
I refer to them as the MTV / instant-gratification-generation.
I didn't mean to paint with such a broad brush but after a recent and rare trip to the mall, I witnessed firsthand just how popular this fashion is.
I saw a girl --couldn't have been older than 16, bend over to pick something she dropped up off of the floor. Immediately, my vision was treated to an eyefull of THONG and ASS. It is an image I can't erase from my mind and one that made me feel like a perv just for witnessing it.
Then I had to laugh at just how ridiculous this girl looked, mooning the mallgoers.
Yup. I sell 'em. See my tag line.
Dudes, I'd be sooo big in marketing...
Bush is sooo 1970s.
Low-riders specifically require no bush.
Britney's always happy to please.
Boomer/X cutoff, sometime in the early 60s, though personally I'd make it more of the mid-60s. X/Y cutoffs, mid- to late-70s. And I've seen some people argue that someone who is 15 years old today is actually in "Generation Z" (or whatever other new name they wish to apply to the kid).
Which just goes to show that all the terms are pretty much made up out of whole cloth. Notice how comparatively gigantic the "Baby Boomer" generation supposedly is; the "oldest" of them are only a few years away from retirement age, which means Boomerdom seems to apply to anyone born from around 1945 to 1965, while the X-Y-Z zones only appear to encompass a 10-15 year period each. It's all BS in the end really, in terms of dates; the terms only have relevance in terms of how the members of each group think and act, the overall Zeitgeist of the given group. And IMHO, the only real differences between Gen-X and Gen-Y are that Gen-Y is growing up to be far more conservative and less whiny than Gen-Xers, who all thought they were going to change the world (gee, wonder where they got that idea from) through their big dotcom fraud, and are all pissed off that they didn't get to retire at 30 after all. Gen-Y, by comparison, have far more level heads.
And it's way too early to say anything about the Gen-Z zeitgeist, or even to declare Gen-Z to legitimately exist, if you ask me.
That's only true about 98 times out of 100. Of course, I never seem to encounter that elusive 2%.
Around her a lot of teen girls are already mothers ----and it's not only love handles ---but love handles full of stretch marks. It's an ugly fashion for the majority.
Well then, she can hardly return them as defective.
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