Langtry on Rachel Lucas....It's a discussion of the 'gangsta' style of dress where boys wear their baggy pants so low as to need holdin' up with one hand...underwear rampant.

Mary Mitchell, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, was very recently writing about this very 'phenomenon'. She said if many of these young men had any idea of the real-life origin of this so-called style, they'd switch to J. Crew immediately.

You see, prison is where the trend started. Granted, that's not unusual for "urban" styles. However, wearing pants down very low (or well below the crack of one's a**) was used by effete gay men as a way of signaling to more masculine men their willingness to serve as substitutes for women (can I tell you how hard it was to describe that in a non-offensive way?!). How then did it come to connote virility in the outside world?