that's the way the kids are wearing them these days.
it's fashionable to have trousers made for someone considerably taller, apparently.
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chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist,
Wed 10 Mar 2004, 20:29,
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mirth
and such
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just a man sitting on a chair eating a biscuit,
Wed 10 Mar 2004, 20:43,
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