Isn't it ironic: Leave it to Britney Spears' home state to try to ban low-rise jeans.
Louisiana House Bill 1626, affectionately known as the "Baggy Pants Bill," would crack down on cracks, so to speak, by making it illegal to let it all hang out.
The bill states: "It shall be unlawful for any person to appear in public wearing his pants below his waist and thereby exposing his skin or intimate clothing."
I'm all for legislating fashion -- in fact, I've often dreamed of a brave new world where people who wore socks with sandals would be taken to the town square and held in a stockade.
In this world, anyone over the age of 10 caught wearing a shirt with the words "brat," "princess," "diva" or "spoiled" would be fed to hungry wolves.
And pregnant women baring their belly skin would be locked up for life, no matter how trendy Madonna or Kate Hudson make it seem.
Harsh, you say?
Have you ever seen a very pregnant woman in a halter top?
Other punishable offenses would include wearing fake hair extensions, Van Halen T-shirts, overly short skirts, jumpers, tube tops, floral print dresses (sorry, Mom), outfits that match ones worn by your spouse, muscle shirts, braided belts, and T-shirts that in any way make reference to beer.
These laws would be strictly enforced by the Prada-clad fashion police. No ifs, ands or -- in the case of Louisiana -- butts about it.
-- Elyssa Andrus
This story appeared in The Daily Herald on May 26, 2004, on page B1.
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