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Plumber's Butt: The Crack Epidemic

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High On Crack: Plumb Over-Exposed

 

Crimes of visual "over-share".

They can happen anywhere, in any climate and every part of the world. In our culture of over-share, people somehow have come to think showing a sliver of your own full moon to the world in everyday settings is a fine thing to do. 

How many of you are just plumb tired of the unsolicited viewing of another person's posterior cleft?

There are some things that you just don't want to see unless you really know someone well. Then there are some things you don't want to see no matter how well you know the person.

These are just some of the "nicer" terms for exposed buttock cleavage.

Builder's Bum
Plumber's Crack
Coin Slot
Sideways Smile

Then there is the modern cousin of the Plumber's Butt, born of a new trend in foundation wear (the thong/ g-string) combined with the lowering of the waistband in off-the-rack trousers. This brings us to new lows in the concept of tacky dressing. Read on to learn more about this travesty of fashion. 

Oh where did good taste and decency go?
 

Oh, we're just getting started...

BTW- Every pun here is completely intentional! 

I See a Bad Moon Rising... 

CCR's John Fogerty (Moon Photo: NASA)

Before we're through, you'll be blushing like this Lunar Eclipse:
(Yes, that is the natural color.)

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BAD MOON RISING - Misheard Lyrics?
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Classic Plumber's Butt 

CAN'T YOU FEEL THE BREEZE?

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Awwww. Now, you have to admit, that is awfully cute. However, this apparition looses all charm once the subject is over the age of 5.

Main Causes of "Plumber's Crack"
Any one or combination of the following can lead to Crack Exposure:

1. Need a belt/ suspenders
2. Shirt too short
3. Trousers too small/ too low rise
4. Trousers too big
5. Poorly cut trousers designed by idiot fashion designers (Perhaps a deliberate "wise-crack" that leaves them laughing all the way to the bank...)

My burning question:
"Can't you FEEL the DRAFT of air on your derrier?"
How can you NOT know you're skin is exposed?

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GAME: Plumber's Butt Pandemonium 

Just say "NO" to crack.

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Just PRAY that they didn't have beans for breakfast!
Plumber's Butt Pandemonium
Play the game online (free).
Watch out, those repairmen are FAST!

Closing the Gap: Jeans for Every Generation 

Trousers' Trail - From Miners Camps to Minor Scamps

Ever since Levi Strauss started making indigo-dyed sturdy work trousers for miners and prospectors during the California Gold Rush, each generation has sought to to do something special, something different with the standard Blue Jean to "make it their own". Sometimes this has to do with the cut, with the way they are worn, or a physical alteration of the jeans themselves.

This gives rise to many interesting, sometimes functional but often ridiculous paramutations.

Here is a list of some of what has been done with the common blue jean:

Highwaters
Tapered Jeans
Skinny Jeans
Hip Huggers
Bell Bottoms
Elephant Flares
Boot Cut
Applique-covered
High-Waisted
Low-Rise
Stone Washed
Patched
Painted
Studded (metal studs applied)
Rhinestone
Disco "Painted-On"
Acid Washed
Overdyed
Bleach Splattered
Distressed (Pre- so they look worn-in, or even ready to fall apart)
Cut or Ripped Jeans (razor-styled holes & slashes)
Holes in "strategic places" with a colorful bandana stuffed inside.
Cut-offs
Clam-Diggers
Belted (and variations of belt widths)
Unbelted
Suspenders/ Bands
Cuffed (small or deep)
Uncuffed

Hind Sight & Rear Visions - The "Butt Cam" 

When the 3-Way mirror just won't cut it, the "Butt Cam" offer customers a view from behind

If you're prepared to spend between $135 - $900 on a pair of jeans, then you can get a great "sneak preview" of what other will see when they check out your booty with the BUTT CAM (patent pending).

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Blue Jean - David Bowie & The Aliens 

"Look out world, you know I got mine!"

Live Version

No saggy trousers or exposed bum cracks here!

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Finding Your Dream Jeans (for Women & Men) 

Solutions from tips on fitting to custom-made for you!

Women, especially, know this quandary:
Finding the right pair of jeans for your body type.
You can't even trust the same brand/ same cut from year to year as they insist on making minor alterations that change the fit. Maddening!

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Stupid is as Stupid Does 

Classic 'Gumpism'

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Gump was a wise man. He always dressed sensibly and wore a belt!

More recent trends seem to inovlve appearing that you are about to LOSE your britches.
Gangsta-wannabes go around with pants that are worn BELOW the bum-line. At least in MOST cases these guys (and I say guys because I've NEVER seen a woman attempt this look) wear shirts that fully cover the exposed posterior. But this does cause them to walk with a funny gait, because they are trying desperatey to keep their pants from falling down around their knees. No, wait, some actually WEAR them down around their knees.

If you really live in "the hood" where danger lurks around every corner and drive-by shootings abound, wouldn't it be SMART to wear clothing that would allow you to move quickly and easily, rather than make you hobble, waddle, trip and fall and get your butt kicked, or worse? Maybe this is to HELP you fall down to dodge flying bullets. Uh, yeah, sure, I can see that...

There is also the "layering effect" of the low-rise
trouser with the underwear making anything from a nice crescent to a full "trunk-ring" above. These kids are referred to as Saggers.

Now we have all these girls with exposed cracks too. The pants are cut so low that there's simply nowhere to hide. Couple that with ridiculously small-cut tops that look like they're from the children's department and you're asking for trouble.

Not keeping one's trousers in proper place was once cause for ridicule. This was a clear-cut sign of either not being too bright or too suave, or both.
Exposing one's full bum was a brief but intentional act of social defiance. Now it seems so commonplace that the Full Moon has rather lost its effectiveness. People are just numb to the full-bum.

Why is it suddenly cool to look like an idiot that can't dress themselves? My nephew had more fashion sense at the age of 5 than most of these guys.

Baggy Trousers - Madness 

"Baggy trousers, dirty shirt. Pulling hair and eating dirt..."

A fun little tune from an old Ska band.

What are they saying?
Singing at a Gilbert and Sullivan pace with those thick accents can make it a little hard to decipher.
See the lyrics here

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Baggy Pants Ban? 

Atlanta and other U.S. cities seek to ban those sagging slacks...

Why anyone would want to imitate a style that started in prison is beyond me.

The truth that many who do this don't realize is, that aside from looking stupid and being impractical, it is meant to be an "invitation".
Lonely prisoners "present themselves" to others by wearing their pants down low to say they are available for some "cell-block cuddling".

Hey, if people wanna look stupid, that is their right. Kids are prone to rebel against authority. Banning something simply makes it a tempting "forbidden fruit". Banning it will simply drive more kids to do it as an act of defiance. It appears it is better to look like a rebellious idiot than a person with common sense and good taste.

I think education is the key. Run TV & YouTube ads about the origin and meaning of this style. If more kids understood the real meaning behind it they'd stop it immediately.

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Latest News on Baggy Pants Bans 

Hope on the horizion...

End to Baggy Pants fad in sight:
Just with any fad, they all run their course and it appears this trend is reaching it's tail-end (thankfully!). It just seems like we've been "waiting it out" forever.
Looking back on the mid 1980's one stupid fad that was going around was to carry a huge portable stereo (boom-box/ ghetto-blaster as they were called) around on your shoulder with the sound insanely loud and the speakers pointing at your ear. This was almost exclusively very young urban men. Hmmmm, wonder how many of them now have premature permanent hearing impairment? With the baggy pants, I have to wonder how many have back and hip alignment problems?
Wow, the things people do to appear "cool" or "hip". Amazing how fast common sense vaporizes in the quest for cool. Trendiness must be tempered with common sense and thinking beyond "today" to avoid anything from minor mishaps to serious, permanent damage.

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Dopey Droopy Drawers 

Apparantly proud to look like an idiot.

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Baggy Pants by rasch2000

Saggy, droopy drawers!

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Caught with pants down: Grafitti Artist looses trousers.

Clown trousers by Eleventh Earl of Mar

Pull your trousers up, you fool.

Clueless - NYC by sdschumaker

You MUST read the BLURB on this one!

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Yes, those pants are down around his knees!

Why Baggy Pants are Not Allowed in Schools 

Baggy Pants Of Doom

A startling reason why baggy pants can be more than just a fashion statement or a symbol that you're married (in jail anyways).

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For Heaven's Sake - Get a Belt and Pull Your Pants Up!!! 

Great belts on eBay!

You don't have to spend a fortune to look like a million dollars.

I don't know why, but the STRANGEST things come up on searches for "Belt" at eBay.
I am NOT responsible for what shows up here. All I've done is set the keyword. It doesn't seem to be able to just search for a BELT. All kinds of things with belt in the description will show - belt buckles, belt clips, garter belts, belted garments and more.
Sometimes an actual normal belt for trousers will show. Amazing!

Good Luck!

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Join the debate!

It's a hot debate:
Baggy pants vs. no baggy pants.

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What do YOU think about baggy pants?

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Baggy pants are stupid.

Jimmie says:

Stupid. Enough said.

Mar1anneC says:

I live in fear of the day my 3 and 5 year old boys get old enough to be skater hooligans wearing baggy pants!

riff999 says:

buy something that fits!

Baggy pants are cool.

 
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Venus Di Milo to Madonna - High on Crack 

Ancient Exposure

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Women are not immune to Plumber's Crack.
It appears even Madonna can't resist letting it all hang out.

Well, we all knew how decadent Roman society became in the days before the Roman Empire finally fell. It all began with a "crack in the infrastructure"...

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Whale Tails 

Why is it trendy to look tacky?

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"Pretty is as pretty does." goes the old saw. Therefore:

STUPID is the NEW PRETTY

What happens when you mix low-cut hip-hugging jeans and trousers with high-cut thongs and g-strings?

A new species of tacky: the Whale Tail

Part of the problem is that popular mass-produced fashion leaves people no choice. It is like the micro-mini skirts that one had to learn precisely how (and how not) to move in to avoid over-exposure.
People these days just can't be bothered with clothing that impedes movement, so they just buy what's available and suffer the side-effects of poorly cut ready-to-wear fashion.

Like the "lipstick on the teeth code" where women that don't even know each other are bound by an unwritten code to inform the other of if such should happen, lady friends were bound to tell each other if a bit of underwear were exposed. An errant bra-strap would bring a stealthy, helpful whisper of "You've got some 'white trash' going on over there sister" or "It's snowing down south of France" for a slip hanging out below the skirtline. The subject would then quickly attend to the problem and be grateful to be saved from further embarassment.

These phrases of social-assistance are actually in danger of becoming extinct, since it seems fewer folk are having the consciousness to know these things could even be an issue. A few, however, embrace and even relish the chance to expose themselves. A coy "Oops, is that my boo-tay hanging out?" follows.

Whale Tails Galore - Genuine Flukes to Fashion Faux Pas 

From the Oblivious Exposure-by-Accident
to the
Intentionally Tacky Trollup

(I had these all lined up to come out evenly, but sometimes you see it that way, and sometimes you don't. I'm tired of trying to outsmart the Flickr Module!)

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Tacky Reading 

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SNL Product Parody

The Coin Slot exposure has become so pandemic that even Saturday Night Live features it in a mock commercial for a fake product.

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Seeing a Coin Slot Makes Me Want To: 

With or without a Whale-Tail

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(Yes, Mr. Gump, I too am baffled by this strange phenomena.)

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