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.