By Nicole Flowers
Staff Writer
This week I decided on boys. I want to write on boys. Well, not on them per se, but about them — I wanted to write on the subject of boys. I feel as though I leave you all out every other week and I thought I should mix it up a little bit.
We go to a school where the boys are notoriously known for dressing better than the ladies at times … I daresay much of the time. But our ladies are vixens of fashion so this can only mean that we have one heck of a beautifully dressed school. But what happens when bad clothes happen to truly good people? I can tell you one thing that happens … saggy non-baggy pants.
It’s been the style for more than five years now, am I wrong? This whole sag your pants and wear them baggy below your bottom and down to your knees thing? Really, am I right or am I right? I thought they went out with the formerly ever-present skort but much to my amazement, the fad has outlasted Jennifer Love Hewitt’s career.
I myself am all about it … I admit that I am indeed a huge Eminem fan and love the look, but what about when you boys forget the baggy part of the equation. Lately I’ve noticed that boys like to wear tight jeans (which I enjoy heaps more than baggy pants) sagging around their thighs. Is that right? I mean, honestly, is that okay? What is the sense of having jeans that are wrapped around your thighs with a belt holding them “up?” Is it comfortable? Is it in? I need to know because I find it disconcerting and totally unattractive when I look at a fabulously dressed male and suddenly I’m staring at a mix of Ralph Lauren plaid boxers, a studded belt and tight jeans hanging around skinny legs. Pull them up!
Let me tell you what I’m really hot and bothered about. The pants are usually too short. That’s right, they are just too short and the mix of the non-butt, cropped pant just boils my water. It’s just too much all at once. I am not one to complain and leave you with no resolution, however. Indeed I’m not. So, what can we do to remedy the situation?
Well, if you’re wearing these pants without the accompanying hat, shirt, shoes, and look that really make the jeans say “bah-dow!” then you just need to revert back to normal pants coupled with a Pepperdine t-shirt. If, on the other hand, you want this punk rocker look, we can help with the saggy non-baggy problem. Jeans that fall just above the hips (us ladies call them hip-huggers) with an un-assisting belt wrapped around them would make the look complete. You’d have a bit of a sag without the unsightly appearance of underwear.
So pull up your pants, throw on a trucker’s hat from the Goodwill, a used shirt from the Salvation Army (or Urban Outfitters … any will do), some Converse All-Stars, and you are set for a night on the town. After all, we are a beautifully dressed campus; we need to make sure we dress accordingly.
— Have a male friend who’s pants are sagging? E-mail Nicole Flowers at Nicole.flowers@pepperdine.edu.
February 13, 2003
