So when did it become the style to wear....

[Tom]

your baseball cap that is way larger than normal down over your ears?  ;D  Seems the younger guys that like the "gangsta style" are wearing their ball caps this way.

[fotoguzzi]

head shrink, same time their waist shrank and they lost their suspenders  belt.

[Lannis]

your baseball cap that is way larger than normal down over your ears?  ;D  Seems the younger guys that like the "gangsta style" are wearing their ball caps this way.

Any time they use a "z" at the end of a word, their brain shrinks another 10% and their cap slips down.   The caps just LOOK bigger on a smaller head ....

Lannis

[Offcamber1]

Have they learned to wear the cap with the bill to the front?  If so, progress is being made.

[Arizona Wayne]

5 years ago I saw Nicky Hayden wearing his BB cap over his ears as if it was too big.  ???   Then I got to thinking.........wh y not?  That way your ears are protected from the sun too.  If you think about it our ears get less sun protection most the time than any other part of our body.  I'm surprised we don't hear more about people getting melanoma cancer there.  Recently I mentioned this to a 70s+ neighbor who has gotten a lot of melanoma all over his head and he told me, yes, he's gotten skin cancer on his ears too.  ~;   Guess I've(71) been lucky.  :)  If I wanted to wear a BB cap over my ears it would have to be made larger than now.  ;D

[Turin]

Hey Kip! any bites yet? I'll keep my ears out for ya. JJ sent me that e-mail.

[rboe]

That is why I prefer a cowboy had to a cap. Ear protection, while not looking too dorky.

[Doppelgaenger]

Don't forget the requirement to have the it's-still-new sticker on it, and god forbid you crease the bill in any way!

[bpreynolds]

Now, now you crusty crustees.  Did you complain about bell bottoms and greased hair back in the day too?   ;D

[Penderic]

A big over sized baseball cap fits in perfectly with the look.


Whats next: Balloon sneakers? Untied laces?

[travelingbyguzzi]

The way the kids dress is the least of our problems. Every now and then, someone tells me they would like to outlaw the off-yer-butt pants, but my thought is if you give society that power, next they will be outlawing the bald-dude-with-ponytail look.  Then where would I be?

[charlie b]

Cop friend says he likes the look.

Cap not fitting tight and low hanging jeans means that when they run they have to keep on hand on their hat and one holding up their jeans.  Can't run very fast that way and can't shoot back at same time  :D

[Kent in Upstate NY]

My wife's nephew wears his pants so that the back packets are somewhere near his knees. God knows why.

[sib]

The whole point of kids' style trends is to outrage the older folks.  In my day it was ducktail hairdos and peggers.  Then it was shoulder-length hair and scraggly beards.  Remember when men wearing earrings was considered outrageous?  When these became accepted, kids escalated to nose rings, naval rings, eyebrow studs, etc.  When I was a kid, the only tattoo wearers were prisoners, junkies, sailors, and carnival oddities.  Enjoy these alternative looks.  Have a good laugh.  But don't try to emulate them, we'd look silly.

[Crusty]

The whole point of kids' style trends is to outrage the older folks.  In my day it was ducktail hairdos and peggers.  Then it was shoulder-length hair and scraggly beards.  Remember when men wearing earrings was considered outrageous?  When these became accepted, kids escalated to nose rings, naval rings, eyebrow studs, etc.  When I was a kid, the only tattoo wearers were prisoners, junkies, sailors, and carnival oddities.  Enjoy these alternative looks.  Have a good laugh.  But don't try to emulate them, we'd look silly.

Most sensible thing I've read today.

[segesta]

Or the converse (inverse?) scenario, like my son--who takes care of himself and looks like an ad for Acqua di Gio--and his taste in clothes is better and more expensive than mine. So instead of berating him for looking like a bum or a gangster, I berate him for trying to look like Marcello Mastroianni.

Of course, he has no idea who Marcello Mastroianni is, but hey.

[Arizona Wayne]

These whole modern copycat 'fashion' statements are GROSS, IMHO.  It stems from some freak dresser getting unwarranted publicity and then gullible youngsters have to copy the 'look' to be 'cool.'  I have never had the need to be 'cool.'

I'm an ex-sailor and usually the sailors that got a tattoo were drunk as a skunk when they did.  In their teens my 2 sons wanted to get tattoos.  I told them if either did they weren't my sons any more.  They thought I was terrible at the time but later in life both thanked me for not letting them do it.  Getting a tat is for life.  ~;

The way I look at it, over time our bodies will get beat up 1 way or another doing what we do for work or pleasure.   Why go out of your way to damage it just for looks?   It's like taking a complete MC and then chopping it up for a different, uglier look.  :D

[Lannis]

The whole point of kids' style trends is to outrage the older folks.  

Yes it is.  

And the problem is, that most of them are too young, too stupid, and too supported by Mommy and Daddy to realize that the people that they are trying to outrage, and trying to demonstrate what poor judgment and social interaction they have to, and trying to "rebel" against, are the people who are hiring for jobs, and accepting into schools, and approving loans, and evaluating them for dating their daughter.

They don't care about that right now, because they don't need any of those things; the norm for kids that have been raised like that is to stay home sucking on the parental tit until they're about 40.

But it WILL make a difference eventually.   I hired scores (maybe hundreds) of people into engineering and IT positions for 30 years.   I was hiring people that could not only do the job, but could describe how that job was done to customers and government regulators.   I had lots of good choices of people that DIDN'T have distracting, disfiguring self-mutilations and other signs of soft can't-think-ahead brains to choose from.

I'm sure these folks can get a job on a forklift in the back of Lowe's where no one has to see them, or open a turquoise craft shop on the side of Route 66 and be happy.   But it sure seems that it would limit one's options.

Lannis

[Rough Edge racing]

The whole point of kids' style trends is to outrage the older folks.  In my day it was ducktail hairdos and peggers.  Then it was shoulder-length hair and scraggly beards.  Remember when men wearing earrings was considered outrageous?  When these became accepted, kids escalated to nose rings, naval rings, eyebrow studs, etc.  When I was a kid, the only tattoo wearers were prisoners, junkies, sailors, and carnival oddities.  Enjoy these alternative looks.  Have a good laugh.  But don't try to emulate them, we'd look silly.

 I agree. My grand daughter got a tattoo when she turned 21 and didn't tell her mother right away.But she told me and wife because she feels we are "cool" AKA non judgmental of youth styles. Nothing worse that a world full of mini me's

[rodekyll]

There comes a time when old farts need to admit that it's not their world anymore and step aside to let the young'uns play through.  That said, when my kids asked about piercings and needle-based mutilations, I told them that they were free to do whatever they wanted -- as soon as they were independent and able to pay the doctor bills for their self-inflicted infections.  My son did just that and now sports several.  If my daughter did, she's not talking about it.  Neither went into the sloppy pants and silly hat fads.  My oldest boy did.  Got into the whole skater/tuner/crack/meth thing and ended up on the wrong end of a needle that was not filled with ink.  So I guess I can say that the problems of youth always sort themselves out -- one way or another.

[Guzzistajohn]

The other day I was paying for my lunch @ a cafe. The Kid behind the counter had piercings all over his face and those butt ugly metal holes in his ears (I think they call them guages??) He gave me my change and I said "Thanks tackle box" The waitress beside him cracked up. He had a puzzled look on his face. ??? ???

[56Pan]

http://modular4kc.com/2012/08/29/gentlemen-your-backward-hat-does-not-make-you-cool/

I just don't get it.

[Arizona Wayne]

http://modular4kc.com/2012/08/29/gentlemen-your-backward-hat-does-not-make-you-cool/

I just don't get it.

Is this where the term asshat came from?  Do you approve of the cockeyed hat?

[56Pan]

Is this where the term asshat came from?  Do you approve of the cockeyed hat?

No.

[Moto Fugazzi]

A neck or face tattoo is basically a resume' for any job that starts after 10pm.
Ken

[Muzz]

I suppose that if a young dude gets a tattoo of a Guzzi engine tattooed on his body,  by the time he is about 70 and gravity has taken its toll it would look like a BMW airhead donk.... :-\

[Penderic]

Old!



New!

[stormshearon]

The hats on backwards meme - meh. The sagging pants meme - prison sign for I am available. If that's what 'ute wish to wear, let 'em. Heck, encourage it. Pink hair, blue hair, multiple peircings - celebrate it. If enough old pharts do that, they will move on to something else. And then we can encourage that - confuse the heck out of 'em.  ;D

[Penderic]

The hats on backwards meme - meh. The sagging pants meme - prison sign for I am available. If that's what 'ute wish to wear, let 'em. Heck, encourage it. Pink hair, blue hair, multiple peircings - celebrate it. If enough old pharts do that, they will move on to something else. And then we can encourage that - confuse the heck out of 'em.  ;D

[Rough Edge racing]

 Back on topic about large ball caps. Willy Mays tells a story in his biography when he was trying to break into major league ball circa 1950. He said it was had to gets noticed because there were many excellent players. So he wore a ball cap several sizes too large and when running the cap flew off giving the illusion being faster than he was..