Louisiana is considering adopting a law that will ban low-rider clothing or the wearing of jeans and the like in such a way to expose one’s underwear or partial backside.

While I agree that baggy pants dropping past the hips with underwear up to one’s belly is a silly fashion statement and does look ridiculous, it seems ridiculous to make them or thong pants a crime worthy of six months imprisonment.

I would strongly suggest that the police have a lot better things to do.

I think it’s unlikely the bill will make it into law as it goes contrary to free speech assessments from the past and it does tie up law enforcement in ways that are counterproductive.

Ah, silliness.

If lawmakers are truly upset about what kids wear, then parents need to exercise more involvement in their children’s lives – not in a way that orders them what to wear or not wear but in a way that fosters the fashion sense they want their kids to have in a productive and acceptable way (without instilling Stepford Kids values).

Of course, the real key to fashion is music. Get a few big popstars to start wearing three-piece suits and all the kids will wear them. Or, if popstars dress like street people then that will be the rage. However, while fashion moguls and strange backstage dressers named Raulisandre set fashion trends by putting all manner of strangeness on teen idols, parents and legislators do not. In fact, a law of the type proposed or stern talkings to by parents are more likely to encourage kids to find even more outlandish behavior or dress (or non-dress) to assert their individuality.

Sometimes it seems that a certain number of powerful parents with authority have forgotten what it was like as a kid when they were wearing their hair and clothes in ways that got a rise out of their own parents. Make an issue of it and it will only get worse. Ignore it and it eventually will go away. Support the kids, nurture them and guide them, don’t whack ’em with the angry stick and push them away from you or shove them into corners where they can do nothing but push back.

Silliness.