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"Swiffer Pants" is my name for those trendy, extra-long, wide-bottomed, velour pants, that, for some reason, a lot of women have suddently begun to wear. The name is inspired by Swiffer floor-cleaning product (see link below) because the pants are commonly worn so long that they drag on the floor, inadvertantly
picking up all the dry dust and dirt.
I coined this term on 12/1/03 at the New Orleans airport, while waiting for my flight back home to Chicago. A young woman wearing a pair of these was walking and "swiffing" her pant cuffs across the filthy, linoleum, airport floor. As you can imagine, the bottoms of her blue pants were disgustingly worn and dirty.
I propose that people wear these pants and come over to my house to purposely clean floors and save me the trouble of having to sweep.
What's a Swiffer?
http://www.homemade.../products/dry.shtml
[XSarenkaX, Oct 21 2004]
(?) Velour Pants
http://store.shopbo...UICY124&category=78
Here's an example of those crazy pants. Notice how long they are. [XSarenkaX]
skirt length theory
http://dspace.dial....istory/history.html [po, Oct 21 2004]
Simultaneous floor and shelf dusting
http://www.fashions...om/images/bd601.jpg
what a great way to clean! [k_sra, Oct 21 2004]
(?) bathroom monkey
http://hillison.com...bathroommonkey.html
when SNL made funny commercials... [dbsousa, Oct 21 2004]
[link]
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Was this person in the airport leaving a trail of sparklingly-clean floor behind her? |
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if skirt lengths rise and fall with the economy; does this apply to trousers/pants. long skirts usually coincide with a bad financial period, is this the case? |
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All I know is that last summer, people were all about "floods" and called them Capri pants; now it seems they've all switched to the biggest, longest pants that hang as low on the hips as possible. I just don't get fashion. |
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//I just don't get fashion// |
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I don't either. These pants make almost everyone that wear them look fat and trashy, (especially if they buy the matching zip up shirt that each one has to go with it)and I don't understand why people will purposely pay money for that. |
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I think it's a conspiracy by the airports so they don't have to employ floor cleaners. |
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When I first read the title of this idea, for some reason my mind immediately brought forth a picture of M.C. Hammer breakdancing in his hammer pants, cleaning floors wherever he went as a means to get over his personal bankruptcy. Stop! Hammer Time!
Does that make me sick and disturbed? Or just a victim of fashion? |
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//Does that make me sick and disturbed?// |
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No, [Canuck], I think that simply makes you a great fit for the halfbakery. :) |
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I found a double duty clothing item. See [link]. |
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Probably a trademark infringement.Not able to use "Swiffer". |
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And here I was hoping it would be a mop on the butt for the leg urchins to slide around in. |
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Don't worry, [Canuck] I was thinking along the same lines |
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This was done as a fake ad on Saturday Night Live last year. Amy Poehler let her kids loose on the kitchen floor, picking up dust and spills in their swiffer suits. I seem to remember a time when SNL fake commercials were funny, not product placement... |
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Don't forget the bathroom monkey (link) |
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"Swiffer pants" are better that the short shorts where your ass hangs out! |
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Shirley you don't mean *MY* ass! |
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psst. her name's Angeline... |
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