A Victory for Underwear Freedom

The proposed Virginia ban on low-riding jeans that expose the wearer's underwear, which Jacob wrote about earlier this week, has been unanimously rejected in committee by the state's Senate. Lawmakers suggested that they were just plain embarrassed by the ridicule visited upon the state as a result of the bill. And a piece in the Washington Post suggests that legislators were behind the curve anyway: The exposed undies style is on the way out on its own.

It actually would've been interesting to see the bill pass, if only for this reason: Presumably, walking around in thin cotton shorts (that's what boxers are, right?) isn't illegal. So could someone in low-riding jeans who spots a cop headed his way escape the $50 ticket by just dropping trou? Now that would've been entertaining.

Comments

[Jeff]

Anyone know what the actual term for underwear in the bill was? "Unmentionables," perhaps?

[Eryk Boston]

As long as VA stays "behind the times" with it's gun laws I'll still be willing to move there.

[OPUS]

Crack has no place in our polite society.

[AIX42]

THONG: The Horrible Overexposure of Nubile Girls bill

[Ruthless]

What should be banned are over-sized "baseball" caps, bill pointing forward, pulled low enough to pin down tops of both ears.

Or not...

[Ironchef]

"So could someone in low-riding jeans who spots a cop headed his way escape the $50 ticket by just dropping trou? "

Well, maybe by dropping the officer's trou and . . .

[noone]

The funny thing is, the lower the jeans style, the harder it is for hoodlums to run away from the police.

[Mo]

One problem Julian,
If your wang escapes from the slit of the boxers (if you're wearing a pair without the button), then they can get you for frontal nudity. How are low-riding jeans legal, but you can always count on some asshole to wear a Speedo on the beach. Ugh....

[Jennifer]

As a former Virginian, I was kind of hoping this law would pass, so I could see exactly how many nanoseconds it took for kids to realize you could get around the law simply by going commando.

[Ruthless]

In my above, the bill of the "baseball" cap must be not arked, rather perfectly flat and parallel to the horizon.

Jennifer, oh succulent one, could you post an image of "going commando"?

I'm sure I'd want to if I knew how.
Forgive me for living in Sinincincinnati.

[kevrob]

Sure and don't I visit Hit & Run just for the craic?

Slan go foil

Kevin

[smacky]

What should be banned are over-sized "baseball" caps, bill pointing forward, pulled low enough to pin down tops of both ears.

No, what should be banned is the wearing of baseball hats with the bill to the side of the head, like some quasi-handicapped New Kids on the Block escapee. Word up.