Back in the '60's more than one town or city actually enacted laws on minimal skirt length when the miniskirt jumped the pond from Carnaby Street to stateside. For guys, the Beatles' haircut roused similar ire.
Many public schools are banning the droopy pants, along with anything gang and/or blatant advertising as well as culturally questionable--crop tops, anything alcohol, drug, sex related, even witty double-entendres. Extreme hair colors, such as neon blue or styles too. Basically anything considered a disruption to learning or "name brand" or style that might elicit envy up to forceable removeable from wearer. This new movement seems even more severe than the school dress codes I experienced concerning miniskirts, hot pants, slacks for girls, tennis shoes, etc--as all of the above were eventually permitted. Cindy Abel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sonja (LS-LAMP) Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] How clothing style can effect law (RE to OT "Baggy") How clothing style can effect law: Well, I live several miles from Delcambre LA and a lot of us think this is just great. The people the law targeted wore pants several inches below the hip line; some almost to their knees. The pants would pull downward on whatever was worn underneath. Believe me; this sometimes went well beyond a little skin showing or thong strap not to mention near-see-through white briefs. Race? Funny, I haven't come across anyone who has even thought anything of the kind. Unless you mean pro-Jewish. That's the only race we haven't caught with the pants-to-the-knees. Delcambre is a small town and several town citizens complained about this "style" of dress. It was requested that this matter be brought up at a counsel meeting. The people elected by the town citizens felt they should give this a bit of attention; after all, the town citizens were asking it be done. SO, with just a little bit of time needed to be set aside, the new law was developed. Yes, more important things were discussed and have been discussed since then... such as the ever-going rebuilding efforts that have been the main focus of the entire town since the hurricane nearly wiped it out. However, the town officials still choose to pay attention to all the needs and concerns brought to them by their citizens. Now you know the rest of the story. ---------- Original Message ----------- > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:22 -0700 > From: "Silvara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Baggy pants (OT but who cares?) > To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > so what about panty peek when a woman bends over in low rise jeans? > argh.... > > Silvara > > > [Original Message] > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 6/18/2007 8:03:36 PM > > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Baggy pants (OT but who cares?) > > > > > > In a message dated 6/18/2007 9:27:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > People caught wearing baggy trousers that show underwear in > > Delcambre, Louisiana, USA, will soon face up to six months jail. > > The new law will > make > > wearing saggy trousers an act of indecent exposure. > > > > I think I am going to move to Louisiana, > > *************** > > You go right ahead and move there, Deary. I find this type of > Puritanical > > foolishness more obscene that seeing someone's boxers.[Wonder how > > race > plays > > into it?] What next, banning fat people from wearing short sleeves? > Burkas for > > all women? How about a nice brown shirt and some jack boots. Like > > LA > towns > > don't have more important things to legislate.... Pitiful. > > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
