GERIATRIC DRESS CODE

My thanks to Louise, my facebook friend, for allowing me to share. Her daughter passed it on to her, and I couldn't stop laughing:

GERIATRIC DRESS CODE

Many of us are over 55, on the WAY to 55, or way over 55. We are quite confused about how we should present ourselves. We're unsure about the kind of image that we are projecting and whether or not we are correct as we try to conform to current fashions. Despite what you may have seen on the streets, the following combinations DO NOT go together and should be avoided:

A nose ring and bifocals

Spiked hair and bald spots

A pierced tongue and dentures

Miniskirts and support hose

Ankle bracelets and corn pads

Speedo's and cellulite

A belly button ring and a gall bladder surgery scar

Unbuttoned disco shirts and a heart monitor

Midriff shirts and a midriff bulge

Bikinis and liver spots

Short shorts and varicose veins

In-line skates and a walker

And the ultimate 'Bad Taste' in fashion:
Thongs and Depends

Please keep these basic guidelines foremost in your mind when you shop.

WHY HAS SUPERINTENDENT KEENAN ALLOWED SAGGING PANTS IN HIS SCHOOLS?

There’s been a lot of talk about African American young men wearing sagging pants. Residents and people who don't live in Maple Heights have commented on why sagging pants are allowed in Maple Heights schools. If there's a dress code, why isn't it enforced?

In an article by Kirsten West Savali, dated July 12, 2012,

Kirsten states "The price tags on our youth’s sagging jeans are nothing more than potential inmate numbers in disguise."

"Even more than the misappropriation of the word “nigga” as a term of endearment, the cultural phenomenon of sagging pants speaks exclusively to the institutionalized brainwashing of black America.

If hip-hop is the voice of a generation, ass-sagging pants is the

uniform. And both are rooted in a rebellion so entrenched that many black men proudly regurgitate, through words and attire,
the tell-tale sign of psychological ownership. If we could delve beneath the often exploitative lyrics of poverty, violence, drug consumption and slangin’, we might recognize that the price tags on our youth’s sagging jeans are nothing more than potential inmate numbers in disguise."

 

 

 

 

“In prison you aren't allowed to wear belts to prevent self-hanging or the hanging of others,” Judge Greg Mathis said in a 2007 interview for Jet magazine. "They take the belt and sometimes your pants hang down. ... Many cultures of the prison have overflowed into the community unfortunately,” continued Mathis, who spent time in Detroit’s Wayne County Jail as a youth. “Those who pulled their pants down the lowest and showed their behind a little more raw, that was an invitation. [The youth] don't know this part about it."

Please read the entire article:

Sagging Pants: Prison Uniform Represents Wreckage of Black Communities?

Related:

Durrell Brooks Sentenced To Three Days In Ohio Jail for Sagging Pants

Black boys/men and sagging pants, by Lynn


Sagging Pants [Wikipedia]