>What the hip huggers have brought home to me is the fact that pants need
>belts. On women, normal pants stay up because waists are smaller than
>hips. When you take the pants down to the hips, there's nothing left to
>hold them up so you wind up continually hitching them up, like a toddler.
>Yes, I wear them because I don't like things around my waist. Whether
>appropriately or not, I guess is for others' judgement.
>
>Joanna
when i was a teenager, joanna, we used to wear our levis around our hips because it was the style. they used to stay there because they were tight and we had pretty firm hips in those days.
i'll let you draw your own conclusions. ;-)
R