“Pants on the Ground” –Now for Women!

“Pants on the ground/Pants on the ground/Lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground” —General Larry Platt

The recent inclement weather brought to light a simply horrid fashion issue: pants on the ground! No, not that infamous “pants worn way below the belt-line” look that often plagues questionable young men. No, this is “pants on the ground” for women!

The culprits of this unfortunate trend are normally 20-something girls, wearing too-long trousers with very high heels (thereby keeping their pants off the ground). Unfortunately, those very high heels are not weather-proof! For example, on Friday, as I was walking home from the train in the midst of the impending blizzard, I noticed a young woman walking in front of me. I first noticed her adorable matching scarf, hat and gloves combo! (Which, I must say, really worked for her, in that “cable knit/I just graduated from college” kind of way, you know?) Then I looked down. Her pants were dragging the ground! Not only were they dragging the ground, they were carrying excess snow and mud with them! This is not the first time I’ve seen a young woman in pants that were literally picking up mud as she walked! What’s up with that? Far be it for me to play fashion police, but if you can gauge the weather by the goop on your pants . . . I mean, really?

Ladies, please, purchase pants in the correct length or, in the alternative, hem your pants! (For those of you raised by wolves: note that most dry cleaners in the northern hemisphere will hem pants for a small fee.)