For the longest time, it seemed that all the young men I saw were ashamed of their bodies. All you ever saw them wearing were pants that were six times larger than required.
Unflattering to say the least, especially for those of us with an eye for fine physiques. Or even some not so fine, but how the heck could one ever tell when every male under 50 was sporting enough fabric to outfit a 3-masted sailing ship?
Then, along with the oversized jeans, came the inexplicable phenomonem of wearing pants too big for you, and not bothering to pull them up over your butt. In fact, some versions of this particular fashion require that a belt be used to keep them under the butt cheeks.
This particular fashion never appealed to me either, because unlike the example I found here, most young men I saw wearing this fashion didn’t have much going in looks to start with, and making their behinds their star attraction did nothing to improve their score on my ‘get a load of that’ scale.
One of the latest male fashions to hit the street are ‘skinny’ jeans. Apparently, the object now is to purchase a pair of jeans that are two sizes too small, and then pack yourself into them.
While we only have a rear view of the young man to our left, we can only imagine what the front view looks like, and are left to wonder whether the man can sit down without permanent damage to certain dangly bits. Most men need a tad bit of room in their clothing for those things, and skinny jeans seem to not take that into consideration.
Whatever happend to wearing clothing that fit? 
Not only do you look good, but from my experience, you feel better and you can move in them without endangering various bodily functions.
I was never one to be concious of fashion. I believe I was in high school before brands became popular among kids. I recall Izod was one of the first, then there was the Members Only jacket craze. My parents could rarely afford anythign with a designer label, we were lucky to have newish clothing from a local department store.
My mom gave us our haircuts until we were in Jr. High and were finally able to convince her that the buzz cut or the bowl cut (the only two cuts she knew) were inappropriate and were contributing factors to a less than desirable social standing in school.
I know that television is the reason for all this mess. Until television advertising convinced us all that we needed to wear a certain brand of shirt or perfume or socks to be sexy we were pretty happy with whatever Mom stuck in the drawer.
I suppose it’s far harder to be a teenager these days than back in my day. Not only do todays teens have to worry about all the normal problems that come along with puberty and high school like zits and wet dreams and dating, they have to worry about wearing the wrong brand of shoes.
Hug your kid when he comes home today. He’s got a tough life.
Well said!