Foo - Right pant leg up.. continued...

The thread was closed so I thought i'd carry this on to another thread. It's true the right pant leg rolled is a street thing that started here in NYC, kids elumating bike messengers, yeah it's true right leg buying left leg selling, but that all started with the messengers who back in the days also peddled "other" things besides packages, kids say thier pants roleed up and it took off from there. I know, I lived it back in the days

ummm... gangster kids have been doing this forever. left leg, crip, right leg, blood. anyone 'urban' doing it, probably doesn't even know messengers exist, they're doing it because it became mainstream hip-hop fashion.

ummm... gangster kids have been doing this forever. left leg, crip, right leg, blood. anyone 'urban' doing it, probably doesn't even know messengers exist, they're doing it because it became mainstream hip-hop fashion.

thats my point, just like the messenger bags

thats my point, just like the messenger bags

the point seems to be where it came from originally, and this seems to be a correlation/causation dilemma.

A: messengers wear their pants leg pulled up
B: urban black fashion suggests pulling pants leg up
C: B is direct result of A.

wait, what?

The Irish were the really hip ones. They did this before anyone!

And they were also the first drunk, cig smoking, pub going guys after work. So they are teh pwn0rz.

pant leg up was also a trick for racking spraypaint and forties down your pants.

The first time I ever say this pant leg thing was back in the 80s and it was the bike messengers and all the others riding BMXs and single speeds that were doing it, Being an urban black kid I did the same as they did and so did all my friends when we rode our BMXs

No it first started with BBallers on the court , then also went to bikers so the pants leg wouldn't get caught in the chainring.

S/F,
CEYA!

No it first started with BBallers on the court , then also went to bikers so the pants leg wouldn't get caught in the chainring.

S/F,
CEYA!



naa not true Bballers did that to copy the style ... BBallers back in the 80s wore it all tight and short if you remember

My heads gonna explode

naa not true Bballers did that to copy the style ... BBallers back in the 80s wore it all tight and short if you remember


NOPE! I remember it clearly. Where did you grow up at? tights and short just to play street ball, the 70s were over then.

S/F,
CEYA!

no no no, you got it all wrong. break dancers started it all.
http://img437.imageshack.us/img437/8272/breakdancegx8.jpg

I think it was Ape-us Messenger-eaus that was he first to roll up its pant leg around 2000 BC

no no no, you got it all wrong. break dancers started it all.
http://img437.imageshack.us/img437/8272/breakdancegx8.jpg


even before that bballer had it. I was there. good memories.

S/F,
CEYA!

even before that bballer had it. I was there. good memories.

S/F,
CEYA!

Thats picture was taken in the 90s at the earliest... the kid's wearing that fox logo, that comany didnt come around till the 90s, and check out thier sneakers, not early 80s sneakers

Unless of course they are b-boys from the future.

Y'know the 80's are full of people from the future.

I started it. It was the summer of 69...

http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/amrev/davis.jpg

poser's totally ripping off bike messengers, pants AND bag.

Thats picture was taken in the 90s at the earliest... the kid's wearing that fox logo, that comany didnt come around till the 90s, and check out thier sneakers, not early 80s sneakers

Fox Racing first opened for business in 1974, when Geoff Fox, a Ph. D. who taught physics at the University of Santa Clara, launched Moto- X Fox, a tiny distribution business for European motocross bikes in a 1,500-square foot building in Campbell, California.

Just sayn..

Fox Racing first opened for business in 1974, when Geoff Fox, a Ph. D. who taught physics at the University of Santa Clara, launched Moto- X Fox, a tiny distribution business for European motocross bikes in a 1,500-square foot building in Campbell, California.

Just sayn..


ya i mean look at that logo, it was designed in the 90s, their old logo was different

http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/amrev/davis.jpg

poser's totally ripping off bike messengers, pants AND bag.

That picture was taken in the 90's dude.

Thats picture was taken in the 90s at the earliest... the kid's wearing that fox logo, that comany didnt come around till the 90s, and check out thier sneakers, not early 80s sneakers


that is not my quote.

ok you guys determine it. I am out.

S/F,
CEyA!

i'm wearing no pants.
who would like to board MY trend train?

the kid wearing the fox shirt has on air max 95's

I've been sitting here for an hour w/ my right pant leg rolled up, but I still can't score any weed. :(

That picture was taken in the 90's dude.

i just got coca-cola in my nose. thank you sir.

It started back in the 40's when people digging for clams would roll up their pants so they wouldn't get wet.

I hate to say it but wearing just one leg up makes me walk crooked and looks stupid cut em off or roll both up and get on with it

wow I never thought of rolling my pantleg up as a style, I've done it to keep my pants out of my drivetrain and to prevent getting grease all over them.

I roll my pants back down when I get off my bike.

I've been sitting here for an hour w/ my right pant leg rolled up, but I still can't score any weed. :(

that is great.:D

i remember taking a big fall when I forgot to roll up my pants once, ripped my whole cuff off and railroaded right into a parked car. ouch!

Ernest Hemingway started it.

I'm fairly well known here for my single pantleg antics.

Very baggy jeans, and the right leg rolled up just under the kneecap, bike helmet hanging off the strap of my bag.

Pretty much if my roadbike was a singlespeed, I would almost be a posenger.

i'm going to assume that: when pants were invented, pant legs were rolled up soon after

currently i keep both pantlegs rolled up. i think it looks goofy and girlpantish, but guess what, its warm out! i dont want to buy $hort$, and i dont want to destroy my pants

so double cuffing is whats up

So are they considered long shorts or short longs?

Weed is so yesterday. You need the love of Jebus Cripes in your heart.

I just want to know how wearing your pants BELOW the buttcheeks started and why kids would want to show off their boxers (and a hint: Skidmarks in the boxers just ain't cool if someone insists on showing them off!)http://dune.servint.com/uploads/f_eyebrows.gif

I just want to know how wearing your pants BELOW the buttcheeks started and why kids would want to show off their boxers (and a hint: Skidmarks in the boxers just ain't cool if someone insists on showing them off!)http://dune.servint.com/uploads/f_eyebrows.gif

It started when prisoners were asked to remove their belts before being locked down. It took on a vouge sensibility sometime in the nineties with the rise of 'gangsta' culture.

So are they considered long shorts or short longs?

No more shants for me. From now on I wear only shlongs.

It started back in the 40's when people digging for clams would roll up their pants so they wouldn't get wet.

http://www.explodingdog.com/dumbpictures/clamdiggers.gif

http://www.explodingdog.com/dumbpictures/clamdiggers.gif

Did you do that all by yourself? :)

THE FLOOD!

Hurry up everybody, CUFF YOUR PANTS!
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BQRGGO.16._SCLZZZZZZZ_SS260_.jpg

in my sociology class they said extremely saggy pants came from poor neighborhoods where kids couldn't afford fitting pants, so they wore their dad's pants which were way too big. these kids were also robbing/stealing/hustling by necessity so they became branded "gangstas". so then when being "gangsta" became cool, everyone started doing it.

http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/amrev/davis.jpg

poser's totally ripping off bike messengers, pants AND bag.

Uh.. your messenger has a rifle... hmm, makes sense.

in my sociology class they said extremely saggy pants came from poor neighborhoods where kids couldn't afford fitting pants, so they wore their dad's pants which were way too big. these kids were also robbing/stealing/hustling by necessity so they became branded "gangstas". so then when being "gangsta" became cool, everyone started doing it.

Your sociology teacher apparently is a practitioner of the research method called "making **** up."

Stop mixing up the right leg only cuff style with the double-leg cuff style, they are not related.

The saggy pants started as loose fit, then as each kid wanted to be the coolest they progressed to baggy, then just a size too big so they sagged a bit, then the boxer poof came about to draw attention to the sag caused by their max oversized baggyness, then they got worse.
In the end they look like a bum with a load in their pants and have no practical excuse. At least our spandex has many practical purposes on the bike.

Your sociology teacher apparently is a practitioner of the research method called "making **** up."

Perhaps, it was interesting to see her dissect commercials, the stuff about sexism and racism she could read into commercials was amazing, i had a hard time believing it, it was interesting though.