Message to Tennessee on saggy pants: Butt out

Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | 4/8/12 | Wendi C. Thomas

[lentulusgracchus]

They are disgusting, IMO. I hate the baggy, hoodies, gangsta look. Then they all wonder why we are not nice to them!!!!

It's done deliberately, as a low-grade, below-threshold form of assault on others. Like boom cars and boom boxes.

The prototype is the civil rights movement and Gandhi's "nonviolent" violence. Gandhi promoted nonviolent insults to the law as a way of provoking retaliatory violence, and then using newsreels of brutish LEO's abusing honest, hardworking (lawbreaking, but that doesn't show on film) mass-followers. Worked like a charm, and the homies still know how to work the grift.

[lentulusgracchus]

I wore a leather jacket with the collar up and had a DA .....

Danish arbitrator?

Dixie Attitude?

Desi Arnaz?

District Attorney?

Dancing aardvark?

Documented anisotropy?

Dervish from Ankara?

Doctor of Arts?

Dashiki Afro?

Dalmatian aristocrat?

Dolichocephalic artificer?

The mind boggles.

[dalereed]

I’m 75 and went to public school and have no idea what a DA is!

[Taxman]

Thank you for your service.

Fly Navy, Beat Army!

[petitfour]

But when the guys are wearing their breeches around their thighs and the girls are wearing their baby doll cutesy dresses, it makes it all so easy. I am sure the Moms who send their daughters to prom and even church dressed that way aren’t thinking that their daughters look Easy or even that they themselves look Easy when they dress that way. I guess there have always been risqué fashion trends. Heh

[Fledermaus]

Now dress codes are racist?

I hope McDonald’s never goes out of business or they’ll be racist.

[B Knotts]

Duck’s a$$.

A hair style from my parents’ generation.

[lentulusgracchus]

Oh, okay -- everyone I ever knew called it a "ducktail".

Then there was the variation with the flat top, called a "Chicago boxcar".

[getgo]

Hard to explain what it looks like but D.A> means “Ducks Ass”. This refers to the way the hair in back of the head was combed towards the middle and when properly done resembled what a Ducks ass looked like from behind.

Google images and you may find a pic.

It may have been a regional thing. I went to school in Northern NJ (Bergen Country)

[oh8eleven]

BTW, blue jeans could only be worn when working on a car or participating in a rodeo.
Yes, you're right! I do remember those rules. Rodeo? LOL ...