25 Comments on What WAS the deal with Fred’s pants?
when you have a gut that hangs down to your crotch, you can wear them with your ass hanging out, or pull them up to your boobs, that’s all
He got them at a race track…In France, possibly, and I don’t think the ladies had that same choice…
Fred might have been better off with a multi-culti look and wear a djellaba or a kaftan.
j/k
For kicks-n-grins with the youngins I would hike up the pants, at least when they were young they got a kick out of it. Now that the grandkids are beginning to understand good humor the “old-routine” is getting another go.
At one time, that was the official waste line, as any of fan of classic movies can attest. Today, we manly men like to brag the will still wear size 33 waste……it’s just 12 inches farther south.
“…now he wears his gut, on display, over his pants.”
Old-School Man used to tuck in his shirt, too. New Hipster Man now buys “Untucked” shirts to cover his Dunlop disease.
Well it’s a lot better than looking at pants down around their ass!
Lucy – “WAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!”
Fred – “Gee Ricky, ya shouldn’t have hit her that hard.”
Ethyl use to constantly complain about how hard it was to buy suspenders for Fred. They were only 3 inches long.
As Jeff Altman used to say, “He’s just a belt and a head.”
All old guys wear their pants hiked up. Don’t take my word for it, go to a nursing home or retirement community.
It always amazes me in the classic films: men wore their pants belted at the waist and the zippers were very long. Plus, they had enough material to accommodate two people.
My pants are Fred pants – my suspenders lift and tuck me privates under me gut.
I’m not as tall as I used to be so I don’t need new pants.
With suspenders I don’t need to constantly “hitch my pants up on a waistline I no long have.
Also I wear vests to cover it up!
The glory of old age.
And yes it’s been a long time since any woman other than my wife has flirted with me!
Ed McMahon: “Fred Mertz”.
Carnac the Magnificent: “Who pumped Ethyl?”
🙂
Having the belt at the natural waistline and parallel to the floor is the “correct” way to wear pants.
We had a guy come in to work dressed like that, and though he wasn’t good-looking himself, he looked sharp!
High waisted trousers/slacks were very much the style of the 30’s and 40’s, with the belt line above the belly button. It wasn’t just William Frawley. Watch some vintage movies and you’ll see. However, many times the high waisted slacks are covered by a dress jacket such as the case with many since coming out of the depression, actors were dressed to nines.
Today’s trousers have short zippers which often trquire opening and dropping them to urinate.
Fag designers who squa to pee or saving a few cents on a shorter zipper? Either way, I hate them.
That’s how your slacks hang when you carry a pint flask in your back pocket…
when you have a gut that hangs down to your crotch, you can wear them with your ass hanging out, or pull them up to your boobs, that’s all
He got them at a race track…In France, possibly, and I don’t think the ladies had that same choice…
Fred might have been better off with a multi-culti look and wear a djellaba or a kaftan.
j/k
For kicks-n-grins with the youngins I would hike up the pants, at least when they were young they got a kick out of it. Now that the grandkids are beginning to understand good humor the “old-routine” is getting another go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ax-IrfluQ
back before the American Male lost his dignity, he wore his gut in his pants … now he wears his gut, on display, over his pants
Just ask Michelle. She wore her dresses like that all the time.
There was a time when a big gut was a sign of success and prosperity.
Skinny people were poor and a bad reproductive bet.
Not just for fat guys!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAE4AOP6xKs
Fred was secretly Gromit’s Wallace, in the Wrong Trousers caper.
https://wondersinthedark.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/wrong-trousers-1-copy.jpg .
What am I missing?
At one time, that was the official waste line, as any of fan of classic movies can attest. Today, we manly men like to brag the will still wear size 33 waste……it’s just 12 inches farther south.
“…now he wears his gut, on display, over his pants.”
Old-School Man used to tuck in his shirt, too. New Hipster Man now buys “Untucked” shirts to cover his Dunlop disease.
Well it’s a lot better than looking at pants down around their ass!
Lucy – “WAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!”
Fred – “Gee Ricky, ya shouldn’t have hit her that hard.”
Ethyl use to constantly complain about how hard it was to buy suspenders for Fred. They were only 3 inches long.
As Jeff Altman used to say, “He’s just a belt and a head.”
All old guys wear their pants hiked up. Don’t take my word for it, go to a nursing home or retirement community.
It always amazes me in the classic films: men wore their pants belted at the waist and the zippers were very long. Plus, they had enough material to accommodate two people.
My pants are Fred pants – my suspenders lift and tuck me privates under me gut.
I’m not as tall as I used to be so I don’t need new pants.
With suspenders I don’t need to constantly “hitch my pants up on a waistline I no long have.
Also I wear vests to cover it up!
The glory of old age.
And yes it’s been a long time since any woman other than my wife has flirted with me!
Ed McMahon: “Fred Mertz”.
Carnac the Magnificent: “Who pumped Ethyl?”
🙂
Having the belt at the natural waistline and parallel to the floor is the “correct” way to wear pants.
We had a guy come in to work dressed like that, and though he wasn’t good-looking himself, he looked sharp!
High waisted trousers/slacks were very much the style of the 30’s and 40’s, with the belt line above the belly button. It wasn’t just William Frawley. Watch some vintage movies and you’ll see. However, many times the high waisted slacks are covered by a dress jacket such as the case with many since coming out of the depression, actors were dressed to nines.
Today’s trousers have short zippers which often trquire opening and dropping them to urinate.
Fag designers who squa to pee or saving a few cents on a shorter zipper? Either way, I hate them.
That’s how your slacks hang when you carry a pint flask in your back pocket…