Fly Down Pants

Fashion is all about expressing one's individuality, an act of rebellion against a mass culture of conformity. Good fashions have to stand out, and express individuality in new ways. A fashion is good and becomes trendy when others who are trying to express their individuality, see the fashion as being a good means of doing so. As a result, the expression of individuality becomes absorbed into the mass culture just like the backwards ball cap, wearing pants below the buttocks, and so many other fashions have in the past.

However, there seems to be a trend to the trendiness. This trend is in the popularization of malfunction. Both in finding their cap askew or discovering ones' pants to have fallen down, would have been an embarrassing turn of events to the self-conscious conformist. But to the individuality asserting rebel, the result was satisfyingly sweet self-expression to be mimicked by many.

Having identified this trend behind the trend, a prediction can be made as to what the next possible fashion could be. A common malfunction which creates instant, inadvertent individuality is having one's fly unfastened in public. Soon, the person afflicted with this malfunction becomes the target of snickering and inane euphemisms such as, "you're flying low" or "the zipper on your pants is open" that makes one wonder "what the hell are they talking about?"

Fly Down Pants will be the new fashion trend, that will be based on the trend of the popularization of malfunction. This age old problem (from the beginning of the Pants Age) which has been misconceived by 'squares' as being embarrassing, will be proudly displayed by hip young people who wear these pants. They will feature a clearly opened zipper that draws attention to the individual, but will fasten closed with another zipper concealed beneath a flap of fabric.