Why do old men wear their pants so high?

[bodyhard]

Do you think when you are say 80 or so (God willing) you will start to wear your pants around your stomach?

[Mark1T]

Are you trying to say it doesn't look cool, Johnny?

My guess is that most men don't have waists and are not athletic at all. Also, throughout history, men have worn pants high.

Look at Napoleon pics. There you go.

[bodyhard]

Are you trying to say it doesn't look cool, Johnny?

My guess is that most men don't have waists and are not athletic at all. Also, throughout history, men have worn pants high.

Look at Napoleon pics. There you go.

LMFAO!! OKaaaayyy

[x-trainer ben]

NAh! too much junk in the trunk, lol.

[Cantplankwell]

IDK....additional moob support?

Problem is when they wear shorts this way their twins drop out the bottom.

[Aristotelian]

Ask me when I'm an old man...or maybe it's because their balls aren't hot any more like ours.

[Jtbny]

To counter balance the kids who wear them too low.

[jellodirt]

They've probably always worn them like that? If you watch television or movies from the 40s-50s-60s all men regardless of age wore their pants high.

[Dave76]

You’re a gay homosexual

Negged because I'm trying to get off spread with non trolls in this forum. You'll be banned soon but it gives me a chance to rep real posters sooner.

[Karl_Hungus]

Because the loss of muscle mass pretty much reduces your @ss to a boney protuberance.....which combined with added midsection fat produces a body shape much like an icecream cone from the waist down. There really isn't anything there that can hold up the pants.

Luckily, with age, the stomach becomes an amorphous mass of gelatinous goo that is malleable enough for an adequately tightened belt to displace flesh on either side. This creates the magical groove needed to hold up the pants....and why old people wear their pants halfway up to their nipples.

P.S. I must pat myself on the back for coming up with a legitimate way to use "nipples" in a post. It doesn't happen every day.

[Mark1T]

Because the loss of muscle mass pretty much reduces your @ss to a boney protuberance.....which combined with added midsection fat produces a body shape much like an icecream cone from the waist down. There really isn't anything there that can hold up the pants.

Luckily, with age, the stomach becomes an amorphous mass of gelatinous goo that becomes malleable enough for an adequately tightened belt to displace flesh on either side. This creates the magical groove needed to hold up the pants....and why old people wear their pants halfway up to their nipples.

P.S. I must pat myself on the back for coming up with a legitimate way to use "nipples" in a post. It doesn't happen every day.

Karlitosephus, I'm kind of thinking you've seen a lot of shiit

[Karl_Hungus]

Karlitosephus, I'm kind of thinking you've seen a lot of shiit

I've been around the block bruh....

[Bo_Flecks]

Because the loss of muscle mass pretty much reduces your @ss to a boney protuberance.....which combined with added midsection fat produces a body shape much like an icecream cone from the waist down. There really isn't anything there that can hold up the pants.

Luckily, with age, the stomach becomes an amorphous mass of gelatinous goo that is malleable enough for an adequately tightened belt to displace flesh on either side. This creates the magical groove needed to hold up the pants....and why old people wear their pants halfway up to their nipples.

P.S. I must pat myself on the back for coming up with a legitimate way to use "nipples" in a post. It doesn't happen every day.

Hum. Good analysis. But I always thought it was this:

[Fishman15]

They were born during the great flood. Thus the term "highwaters"...

[ElrondHubbard]

There's always suspenders.

[bodyhard]

There's always suspenders.

At one time in the hood suspenders where the sh!t, however you never worse them up, you just let them hang down. Never to hold your pants up, they were worn for style.

[EdwardTheGreat]

At one time in the hood suspenders where the sh!t, however you never worse them up, you just let them hang down. Never to hold your pants up, they were worn for style.

LOL chino pants, Converse Cons, red or white suspenders hanging down, black t-shirt of your choice...our standard outfit in the mid 80's

[bodyhard]

LOL chino pants, Converse Cons, red or white suspenders hanging down, black t-shirt of your choice...our standard outfit in the mid 80's

In the hood they weren't converse, they were either Pumas or Adidas, or if you were going out to the club, British Knights or Playboys, the pants were Lees and the shirts were Chinese mock necks. In the Winter leather bombers.

[OldFartTom]

It's much more secure if the belt is above the top of the hips which puts it at belly button height. Same reason as braces used to be common. In the old days having your pants torn down by strangers was an everyday hazzard and this was how they were worn to combat that. Thankfully that behaviour seemed to end some time in the early 60s and anyone born after that time wears trousers/pants the normal way. That's a historical fact, Google it.

(OK, I made it all up... so sue me)

Edit: ok on a serious point for a change, I have 2 pairs of suit pants/trousers I got from a tailor a few years back, they are both pretty worn out now. The tailor is a very traditional company (the company started in 1689!) and so traditional they don't have belt loops as that is too new for them as loops became popular in the 1960s so they come with these weird adjusters instead (I got them to add belt loops for me). Anyway even though they are very old fashioned construction, the waist height is normal. So the very high waist must be something to do with old men, not some throwback to old fashioned fashion.

[sakustoms]

In the hood they weren't converse, they were either Pumas or Adidas, or if you were going out to the club, British Knights or Playboys, the pants were Lees and the shirts were Chinese mock necks. In the Winter leather bombers.

We used to wear our bombers with beads on the cord around the hood, with pin striped Lee's and BVD Tshirts. Once we got inside the club we would wear our jackets backwards with the jacket in front and our arms in the wrong sleeve and never zipped. LOL The s**t we did back then. Oh and I wore either Puma's ( I still do to this day ) or Adidas clam shells. I had a pair of green Puma suede mid tops.

[ElrondHubbard]

At one time in the hood suspenders where the sh!t, however you never worse them up, you just let them hang down. Never to hold your pants up, they were worn for style.

I was always fortunate in that I never had any style to worry about.

[Karl_Hungus]

I was always fortunate in that I never had any style to worry about.

^^ Same here. Grew up poor and knew nothing of style or brand names etc....and, quite honestly, I still don't. If it fits, is reasonably comfortable, and doesn't look terrible, I'll wear it.

[bigcat3655]

Because the loss of muscle mass pretty much reduces your @ss to a boney protuberance.....which combined with added midsection fat produces a body shape much like an icecream cone from the waist down. There really isn't anything there that can hold up the pants.

Luckily, with age, the stomach becomes an amorphous mass of gelatinous goo that is malleable enough for an adequately tightened belt to displace flesh on either side. This creates the magical groove needed to hold up the pants....and why old people wear their pants halfway up to their nipples.

P.S. I must pat myself on the back for coming up with a legitimate way to use "nipples" in a post. It doesn't happen every day.

This. When your rear end looks like a frog standing up wearing pants, nothing to hold those pants up

[bodyhard]

^^ Same here. Grew up poor and knew nothing of style or brand names etc....and, quite honestly, I still don't. If it fits, is reasonably comfortable, and doesn't look terrible, I'll wear it.

Imagine being poor and living in a hood where if you did not have the style clothes you would be ridiculed and picked on....Coupled that with being a skinny kid with thick glasses....that will give a perspective of why I started fighting, working out, got into gangs and why I earned my money in the streets....

[champ07]

Imagine being poor and living in a hood where if you did not have the style clothes you would be ridiculed and picked on....Coupled that with being a skinny kid with thick glasses....that will give a perspective of why I started fighting, working out, got into gangs and why I earned my money in the streets....

Prostitution?

[crupiea]

I have been a high pants wearer all my life and if I had my way, I would wear them at like nipple height, srs.

My thing is I have a long torso so if I wear pants down around the hips, it looks like I am odd shaped. Regular shirts wont even tuck in at that distance.

Now add in that my weight goes up and down a lot, like 70 Lbs up and down every year, a lot of swings. So if I am in a fat time, now i have a big belly and if I wear jeans, I look like billy bob with a big belly.

When i wear my work slacks, I wear them center mass, which for me is right about at the belly button or higher. I simply cannot wear jeans of an sort. i like them but they always look stupid.

its a constant thing to find top dead center for me. Its like my "hips" are about 3" below my nipples.

if i were older, i would not give a **** and would wear the damn things higher so i dont need to think about it any more, plus it pisses young bucks off so there is that.

[bodyhard]

Prostitution?

LMFAO!! Yeah I made a lot of money

[ElrondHubbard]

LMFAO!! Yeah I made a lot of money

Just wait until you start wearing your pants at the proper height... You'll be rakin' them in.

[Brackneyc]

I have been a high pants wearer all my life and if I had my way, I would wear them at like nipple height, srs.

Do it.

[Karl_Hungus]

Do it.

Exactly. Crup, quit being a pussy and start wearing your pants up to your nipples.