BAGGY PANTS STYLES I have always been grateful for the fact that men's clothing designs were not so readily receptive to novel changes as readily as are styles for women.
If I am reading forecasts properly we are going to be able too buy men's pants this Fall which actually cover the area they were originally designed to conceal. We have weathered two style spasms in recent years when we went to extreme ends.
I'm on the fat side, so I hated both extremes. The one was a hungry-looking, thin-as-a-rail, tight-fitted, zipper zapper, with all bone inside and a squeezed layer of flesh and skin inside ready to split the thin surface with the very next bending motion.
I have always been for growing up an "in-between time" in pants
when we don't seem have worry too much about them being too tight or too baggy or loose. I have been through one era of change in which we were led to wear "knickers" They were a fad, which came to these shores with Scottish game called "golf" - laughing referred to by non-players as "Cow-pasture pool" or "Barnyard Billiards". They were, at first, worn only when playing the game We should have gone authentic with kilts but I, for one, am glad that did not catch on. With sudden and unpleasant changes made in Wall Street in 1929 we boys called our pants of that sort "knickerbockers" but I don't know why. It sounds like we may have lifted it from Upstate New York, possibly by way of James Fennimore Cooper. We saved our golf wear for Sunday and other dress-up occasions and the rest of the time we wore overalls - pronounced "over hauls" - with pocketed bib, shoulder straps, large side and rear pockets and, they were roomy enough to slide them off and on over usually bare feet and sometimes shod feet.
At this moment boys are walking through the malls of America wearing in style baggy pants which allow low back pockets - always loaded- to tap the heels of the
walker-wearer and scrape the pavement.
Let's get move on there, you style shifters! It's getting late! The rising of the full Moon is seen often at the local Mall at all hours of the day and night.
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 10-8-06 [c400wds]
