Dolce & Gabbana's latest line of men's fashion jeans is raising a few eyebrows with its low-riding jeans nicknamed the "pubic pants."
The lead on a New York Daily News story provides a revealing look at the issue:
Men's fashion has hit a new low - and it's really, really low.
An ad for the Dolce & Gabbana fall men's line featuring extremely low-riding jeans - nicknamed "pubic pants" by the fashion press - is an attention grabber, even in New York.
D & G's ads are not the first to exploit the sex appeal to sell clothes. Calvin Klein built a reputation around sensationalistic near-naked images of teenagers dressed in the latest fashions beginning in the 1980s. Now D & G may be pushing the limits of good taste by exposing too much of their models in order to sell jeans.
From a free speech perspective, this advertisement campaign may be called upon to establish a clearer definition of what exactly "purient interests" means in contemporary society.