wifebeaters Re: Closets and Wardrobes

[kempermentor]

> Potioncat:
> > Guys wear white or black beaters. 
> > ... I asked if it was part of a particular look. Her
> > answer was that a gangster would wear his beater with low riding baggy
> > pants (most likely sweats) while a skater would wear his beater 
> > with tight fiting pants. 

> Ali:
> Sweats, eh?  Maybe I'm getting old, too.  ...
> I still recall the baggy pants as jeans, granted the jean
> materials were a softer cotton denim (whereas they were actual denim
> before) but they were jeans, not sweats.

Kemper now:
They (and if we're talking urban language: gangstas, not gangsters)
wear/wore baggy jeans as well as khakis (usually Dickies).  
(The bagginess was a style that, I think, was originally a look that
came from hand-me-down pants from big brothers to little brothers.)

Kemper