mens trousers!

[mata hati]

Maybe on the wrong topic here but-

Can anyone tell me why men used to tweak the knees of their trousers before sitting down? Was it something to do with the crease down the leg? Dont see anyone do it these days!
anyone any idea?
thanks!

[snags]

To stop the knee area stretching and going baggy?

[rojash]

"Dont see anyone do it these days! "
That's because fashions have changed to accommodate all the fatties. Now that fat people are in the majority, trouser legs tend not to be so tight.

[jno]

even more, if the trouser knees clung to the wearer's knees enough, then when he sat down the trousers would be pulled down from the top, exposing his underwear.

Astonishingly, this used to be considered a bad thing.

[sandyRoe]

Trousers now don't lose their crease. They did then.

[joggerjayne]

We all do that.

As you sit down, you tug the thigh of your jeans up a bit.

If you don't, as snags suggests, the fabric pulls too tight over your knees.

Even in a skirt, you have to tidy the fabric when you sit down (unless you're wearing a "pussy pelmet", in which case there's not much point) (nb. I don't wear those).

[Ankou]

it also allows mr sausage to fall into a safer discrete place rather than protrude down the front of the leg.

[snags]

In your dreams Ankou ;-p

[joggerjayne]

Doesn't your underwear hold, err ... "Mr Sausage" in place?

[Ankou]

i don't dream about big willies, thats jayne

[joggerjayne]

Hang on, don't drag me into this !

[coccinelle]

It's as snags says: to stop the knee area stretching, nowadays trousers have some elastomere in them to allow for this.

[heathfield]

Well JJ, mens 'Y-fronts' hold Mr sausage in place. Unfortunately, there's a fashion for boxer shorts, which don't!

[snags]

''Hang on, don't drag me into this !''

Like you need 'dragging'...

[joggerjayne]

Aren't boxers a bit 90's?

Guys now are wearing briefs by CK or HB or RL.

Well, I mean ... I can't vouch for ALL guys, but ... well, you know.

[mata hati]

Thanks for all the suggestions - not sure about the "Mr Sausage" placement one! Perhaps that was what Robbie Savage attempting on SCD last Saturday.

[Ankou]

indeed, robbue and i have something in common. its a burden sometimes.

[mata hati]

ooh err missis!!!

[vonhabsburg]

The inside of the cloth can stick and the knees could go baggy but good quality trousers are lined with satin although one still does it out of habit. Women do the same with skirts.