No, it's not about freebasing in Los Angeles, it's about jeans in Louisiana!

Represestative Derrick Shepherd, a Democrat, wants to ban the popular low-riding jeans that expose midriff and "intimate garments."

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1122513/posts

I don't think this, ahem, "rises to the level" of legislative necessity.  If this proposal became law, it would set a precedent for prohibiting the plunging neckline, and that contour-tracing Spandex, should it make a comeback.

I see another problem: social exclusion.  Fashions for young women--especially in high school and college--often promote pressure to follow the trend.  However, body-revealing is not a club into which all body-types are invited.  Overweight women face stigma as it is.  We don't need the skinny-bias emphasized more than it already is.

The same pressure doesn't really exist in men's fashions.  If tight l'il shorts for guys become all the rage this summer, I don't think I'll resent it because my legs are spindly and my knees are knobby.  I've been deaf to men's apparel chic for years, no problem.
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Parents do have a legit gripe about their school-aged daughters wearing them, but school districts can establish dress codes without the legislature imposing restrictions on the general public.

With so many more important things to worry about, I can't believe someone's wasting resources on this "cause". ::) :P

Legislation for clothes styles? That's just too much. :D

Some people have too much time on their hands.

So much wasted time.

This doesn't have anything to do with L.A.'s drug scene, but a 2-year-old was locked out of a Kokomo motel because his mom was cooking up meth inside. I find that apprehensible. The mom doesn't deserve children.
But a lot of motel rooms are becoming havens for meth users and preparers. :(

Let me get this straight -- he wants to make low-riders illegal, but that oh so fashionable loud-print mu-mu and pink foam hair rollers "Sunday go to Wal-mart" look will still be OK?  Surely they're not going to continue allowing shirts with spills and pit stains!  They are?? 

L.A is going on about something as stupid as this?
While they're at it why don't they put a cap on the number of times one can have plastic surgery before they start looking like Jocelyn Wildenstein?

Can't be real. 'Tis impossible!

The only fashion that need legislation is wearing socks with sandals. I mean, come on...they're SANDALS. You wear them (presumably) because you can't go barefoot everywhere ( I would if I could...weather permitting). Putting socks on your feet defeets the whole purpose...

Life imitates The Onion.  The story got around because it's amusing.  It wasn't just the proposed law, but the draconian punishments.  $500.00 for the first offense?  Jail time possible on subsequent offenses?  Of course the law wouldn't pass.  The implications are way to complicated.  The more you think about it, the funnier it gets!

If all our govornment has to worry about is low-riding jeans, then our country is in better shape than I thought.  I am so glad that we elect officals who really know how to tackle the issues.  ;D

I recieved a verbal warning from a cop for "crack" at a baseball game last summer. He pulled me aside and said, "Sir, could you please pull your pants up." Me and my friends got a good laugh out of that.

So what, theres about 500 people in congress, so some of them are bound to be stupid, and even the ones that aren't are bound to come up with stupid ideas once in a while.  Why do we always have to make news out of every stupid thing?

You can bet this baby's gonna be on the backburner in Louisiana legislature for good long time!
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I work in construction, can I get a bounty on this.  Tail gate parties would be a good hit, too.  All those barbeque and beer bellies.  It could be a whole new career.  Oh, oh, wait your right, that's different.

Had to bring this one back from the "dead" as my son was telling me that a kid in his school was sent home yesterday for his jeans hanging off his butt.  Guess they fell off in gym class......he also had a long shirt on so nothing was "revealed", but a note came home yesterday reminding parents to put belts on their kids' pants if necessary....if their pants are deemed to be "too lowcut or falling off", they will receive 1 warning, then it's a detention 8)


good idea.  A friend of mine says his hands itch every time he sees youths in low slung trousers.  He wants to hitch their trousers up, tuck their shirt in for them and give their nose a wipe.  I guess being a father of four he's kind of in the habit.

So what, theres about 500 people in congress, so some of them are bound to be stupid, and even the ones that aren't are bound to come up with stupid ideas once in a while.  Why do we always have to make news out of every stupid thing?


435 in the house of representatives and 100 in the senate, meaning 535 in all.  That's the federal government.  But this only involves the state of Louisiana.  I doubt Louisiana has 500 state representatives.

Whatever.  Look who made it to be President.  Nobody can be surpised somebody with some wacky ideas made it to state representative in Louisiana.  Anyway,  I think they have bigger catfish to fry now.

I wouldn't eat no Louisiana catfish for the next, oh, hundred years!

I could go for some catfish and frog legs about now.  I wish I didn't have to drive an hour for some seafood.

No kidding.  How long will it take for that industry to come back?  Catfish, crawfish, lobster and crab plus okra, corn and everything else could effected because its bad enough that the crops are destroyed, but the bodies and disease might effect the soil and make it contaminated and unsafe too, right?  Maybe not. I wonder what percent of the Cajun restaurants all over the U.S. get there food from down there?  I guess Maine and New England will get more seafood business now.


My Dad, who was from Louisiana(area around Baton Rouge) always said lobster from Maine, crab from Alaska, clams from Massachusetts and shrimp from Louisiana.  He was Creole(pity the man who called him Cajun, but that is another story).  The Resteraunts around the US will not suffer at all, the will find the
food they need for their Creole and Cajun recipes.  ;)