Coming back to the thread on "droopy drawers" for the moment, The one thing
the droopy drawers (I mean, jeans) -- worn most frequently with
knee-length, greatly-oversized T-shirts (or sports jerseys, or tanks,
or...) -- reminds me of is, all the threads on this list and others about
shirtes and trews. I have to chuckle at these young kids going around in
what looks like their (somewhat updated!) underwear!
Then again, we've had the "camisole top", "chemise dress", and "slip
skirt/petticoat skirt" trends going in and out of style for young women
over the past 25 years or so, that it's probably about time for young men
to go around in "underwear-as-outerwear"...
OTTH, the first time I saw **T-shirts** that oversized in style, they were
shown in a junior/misses/women's ("Hey, tourist gal! Buy this as a souvenir
of Miami Beach, 1980!") shop, one side knotted up at just-below-crotch
height, worn either as a beach coverup or over leggings.
The thing that really bugs me about current styles, though -- other than
the "I have a loaded diaper under my pants" look -- are the super-low-cuts
that require the wearer shave or wax off *everything* below the navel and
make even the slimmest of women look pregnant.
Worse, I think this look triggers anorexia since some of the slim teens and
young women who have bought into this look show up on health-and-fitness
sites such as SELF magazine's "healthy eating forum" severely underweight
and asking how to lose weight to get rid of their "pooch" (natural belly
curvature). An interesting side-note is that to my eyes, the media only
seem to acknowledge anorexia nervosa (which I understand to be a continuing
problem among women at least going back to the 1920's and probably back to
Victorian days, if not further) when the current style for females is for
hip-huggers/low-riders/"waistline"-exposes-part-of-the-belly slacks...
Then again, given the choice of seeing large numbers of obese women who
think they look fine in tight-fitting, belly-exposing tank-tops with
super-low-slung jeans, or those obese women being afraid to go out in
public because they believe they *don't* look fine in any sort of modern
clothes (and therefore stress-eat themselves into even worse obesity)...
viewing the exposed bellies has *got* to be the better choice...
Brenda
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