Italy school bans bottom-revealing trousers

[Endangered Specie]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&e=20&u=/nm/oukoe_odd_italy_trousers
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ROME (Reuters) - It might be fine for Christina Aguilera or plumbers, but not for school children -- jeans that reveal the buttocks have been banned by an Italian headmaster.

"Just as covering your face with a burka is excessive ... so is it beyond the bounds of decency to wear trousers that, when you sit down, reveal your bottom," read a circular by the head of Vitruvio Pollione high school in the central Italian city of Avezzano.

"Most kids take the fashion in their stride, but in some cases it had led to rather ribald comments," headmaster Angelo Bernardini told Corriere della Sera newspaper.

Fashionable teenagers in Italy are fond of rapper-style baggy, low-hanging jeans for boys and midriff-revealing trousers for girls. In both cases underwear is often on view.

"A triangle of G-string popping out of the trousers -- that's vulgar, that's something I really would not like to see at school. But a glimpse of underwear elastic isn't such a bad thing, it's just a little innocent provocation," founder of Italy's Diesel clothing brand, Renzo Rosso, told the Corriere.
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[kick-ass-bob]

1. ?????

I really need a pic of this...

I don't understand what they look like ... HONEST!!

[kick-ass-bob]

5. oh - I've got it now.

I didn't read that right, I guess...

[NV Whino]

2. It's always puzzled me

just how the guys can keep them up at all. Super glue?

[Blue-Jay]

3. I'm really not a fan of that "fashion statement" either.

But I still look. Marduk help me, I still look.

[gpandas]

4. pictures? n/t