Pull Your Pants Up

There’s an ad for boxer shorts on telly that fills me with hope.

It features three old boys sporting the sartorial style known as “Harry Highpants”. They’re sitting at a café table, shaking their heads at the three young blokes with their pants under their butts in the style known as “Barry Bare Arse.”

There’s hilarity all round as the generations disapprove of each other in their own charming way, and we are all left with the satisfying feeling of having been voyeurs on a scene that reaffirms our suspicions about everyone.

While I don’t side with the Harry High-pant brigade, it is less obnoxious than the low pant mob. In my area, I’ve even seen the ‘style’ worn without underwear. Ewe! Specially “ewe” on public transport.

I'm certain it’s possible to look good wearing your pants somewhere between scrotum-smashing-high and crack-on-display low.

But the good news is, low-pant is almost over. A mainstream brand has used it in an ad and most large corporations are waaaaaay behind the actual trend-on-the-street. They usually cotton on, just as it dies. Even if, by some miracle, they are getting on the band-wagon at the top of the trend - They nullify the rebelliousness of the fashion and thereby kill it.

Filthy fashion trend… OVER!