Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Cthulhu]

(thanks to Billbile. Uh, er...Word! Naw, doesn't work for white guys)

Anyway.

I've had people tell me from time to time that I should pull my pants up over my belly button instead of at the waist. Even ex-girlfriends told me this, so I figure I must be making a Korean fashion faux pas with me low riders (i.e., at the waist).

Now, I always thought that the proper place for pants was at the midpoint between the human equivalent of the thorax and abdomen (I still remember 6th Grade science--yay!) and yet Koreans seem to figure the pants should ride higher. Damned uncomfortable it is, even with the obligatory beer belly--hey, I'm working on it!

Is this done back home? Am I out of touch with the demands of modern fashion? Do people want their legs to look longer at the expense of their chests?

Enquiring minds want to know!

[Zyzyfer]

They all really like Steve Urkel.

Umm........I did once try to wear my pants like that, and yea, it's uncomfortable. The family jewels get a bit squished and all....

[William Beckerson]

I wear mine up at the navel simply cause I have hip-hop style jeans and if I dont, I'll trip over myself.

Also, it holds the gut in.

[gang ah jee]

The last Clint Eastwood movie I saw

I think it was called 'True Crime'

Eastwood had his pants WAAAAAAAAAAAY past his belly button.

It's what you do when you get old. Old and owned.

Word.

[Anda]

I'll jump off a tall building wearing a tracksuit and red cape first before I'd wear pants up over my belly button. I can hear the kids now: teddy bear, teddy bear, teacher is a teddy bear!

[Blue Flower]

Nothing - and I repeat - NOTHING - looks more hideous than pants up over a mans belly. If you want to look like a dwarf - go for it, but remember the Lord of the Rings craze has died down again, dwarves won't be hip again till part 3 comes out in winter.

Remember - Korea is the place where dogs ears are died every imaginable colour - especially if it is garish, women wear socks with classy sandals, ajummas wear a hideous array of patterned polyester. Do not take the advice of a Korean person, over your own judgement.

If it don't feel right, then it probably looks wrong.

[Wombat]

I have a pair of jeans that I wore in Brisbane with no worries (the fashion at the moment is for women's jeans to ride low - just above The Region, but not sluttily so). Here in Korea, I feel sinful for exposing a little waist. Korean women are so covery-uppery - and I'm a supposed conservative Hindu girl! Weird that *I* should find them modest.

Wombat

PS - On the other hand, some Korean girls don't seem too...um...modest.

[billbile]

As you know, it's just a fiendlishly cunning master-plan to fool the world that you are not over-weight.

And by golly it works!

Almost. You have to make sure no-one sees you sideways, where your waist is actually wider than at the front.