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why wear pants halfway down?

What is there about having your pants halfway down, with other "underwear" underneath them? Is it a social statement? Is it purely fashion? I truely wonder why nice looking young men want their pants this way...........

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    alright no one is answering your question so i guess i have to

    its comfortable, you have to find the right balance so its btween an old white guy and your pants falling off, its comfortably when you sit down to have some more slack.

    its like if you wear a hat for a long time then take it off it feels like it should be on your head, you get used to it then you always want your pants to stay that way.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's a fashion statement. And I also wonder why this is a popular trend, just like girls who wear hip hugger jeans with a thong showing.

    Fashion trends like both of those I mention should be Illegal for indecency to the public.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    It means; "hell yeh I'm too fcuking cool to be bothered with a belt".. lol

    **Really; it is another trend that came from black america.

    Historically, (huge generalization here) african american familes in the U.S. were in the poorer demographic and with larger families. So hand-me-downs we simply an obvious necessity. So kids wore their big bro's clothes... and at around this time the hip hop/ rap scene was getting big; and leading the way were talented kids from the ghetto. & with them came the clothes they wore/ (way they spoke, moves they danced with).

    So they baggy *** jeans & 12 times too big tees started as a necessary way of life, soon came to be somewhat of a symbol of community identity("yeh, this is the place i came from") & later, when everyone wanted to be like biggie smalls & the wu-tang clan, a fashion statement..

    So the white kids riding their boards around town are doing it to be in with the in crowd (nothing wrong with that) without realising the history that came behind such a fashion trend.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    idiots..they think they are cool...what gets me is when they walk down the street holding there pants up with one hand and talking on a cell phone with the other..why in the hell do people want to see there nasty undies

  • 1 decade ago

    i guess they want air. lol...i dont know...i've seen everyone with them...every ethnicity...and some claim its just a fashion statement...but i think some really dont know why.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I wish I knew, to me it looks like the person is too stupid to dress themselves.

  • 1 decade ago

    some make it cute but most make it uglierrrr...haha...

    depends on the body shape of the man (waist+hip)

  • 1 decade ago

    you know what ive always wondered? HOW they are able to...how do they not fall off when they run?? or when they walk..?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it makes guys butts look cute, and they want you to see thier plaid boxers! i think...im not a guy

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