Sarah sent this to me. But I think I've figured out the solution - don't wear underwear.
Bill sets fine for low-riding pants
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Showing undies could cost Virginians $50.
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- Virginians who wear their pants so low their underwear shows may want to think about investing in a stronger belt.
The state's House of Delegates passed a bill Tuesday authorizing a $50 fine for anyone who displays his or her underpants in a "lewd or indecent manner."
Del. Lionell Spruill Sr., a Democrat who opposed the bill, had pleaded with his colleagues to remember their own youthful fashion follies.
During an extended monologue Monday, he talked about how they dressed or wore their hair in their teens. On Tuesday, he said the measure was an unconstitutional attack on young blacks that would force parents to take off work to accompany their children to court just for making a fashion statement.
"This is a foolish bill, Mr. Speaker, because it will hurt so many," Spruill said before the measure was approved 60-34. It now goes to the state Senate.
The bill's sponsor, Del. Algie T. Howell, has said constituents were offended by the exposed underwear. He did not speak on the floor Tuesday.
Spruill and Howell, also a Democrat, are both black.
The state's House of Delegates passed a bill Tuesday authorizing a $50 fine for anyone who displays his or her underpants in a "lewd or indecent manner."
Del. Lionell Spruill Sr., a Democrat who opposed the bill, had pleaded with his colleagues to remember their own youthful fashion follies.
During an extended monologue Monday, he talked about how they dressed or wore their hair in their teens. On Tuesday, he said the measure was an unconstitutional attack on young blacks that would force parents to take off work to accompany their children to court just for making a fashion statement.
"This is a foolish bill, Mr. Speaker, because it will hurt so many," Spruill said before the measure was approved 60-34. It now goes to the state Senate.
The bill's sponsor, Del. Algie T. Howell, has said constituents were offended by the exposed underwear. He did not speak on the floor Tuesday.
Spruill and Howell, also a Democrat, are both black.
4 comments:
first of all, i know for a fact that you'd outlaw uggs if you could. secondly, perhaps if you start legislating it, it would force people to be more original in their rebellion against good taste.
My fashion laws would deal with a more subtle problem which I noticed especially in the particular lighting conditions of the museum. VTL - Visible Thong Line. Perhaps in the dim lighting of their own houses, when these women checked their outfits in the mirror and decided that the thong was the way to go, so that their underwear wouldn't show through their light coloured pants, these women didn't realize that, in the spotlights of the museum, not only would the line of their thongs be quite obvious through their now transparant pants, but also, the skin texture of their lumpy asses would be clear to everyone else in the room! Put some big granny underwear over your puckered cellulitey butts ladies, that's what they are for!
...paul sez...
but I think the real question is what will start happening in the debates of international fashion law. as is happening to rumsfeld right now, will I (say) have to forgo visiting a country with a stricter fashion regime or worry about being arrested for wearing a shirt with a hole in it?
Germany may have stricter laws on war crimes but if you were a fashion offender then it would be the best place in the world to hide. The fashion police there would be to busy trying to enforce some rules on their own citizens. I spent the summer in Germany when I was 16 and I loved it, but those people can't dress to save their lives.
Before I went there I asked my German teacher if the kids there really dressed as terribly as the photos in our text book would lead you to believe. She said that it was because it was an old text book and the photos were out of date. She was wrong! Striped lycra pants! Seriously, no one on this planet will ever look good in such a garment.
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