well, Im from Costa Rica but lived in the states for 3 months, and from personal experience I´ve noticed that people from the US like to wear shorts more often than we costaricans do, even if our weather is quite hot also. Here in Costa Rica most people wear jeans or pants and most people from the US I see usually wear shorts, here or in the US as well, at least quite more often than costaricans do. Maybe I´m wrong, but maybe it is true people in the states have a cultural tendency to like to wear less clothes? Interesting topic anyways.

Having lived in the US for about three and a half years (I'm originally from Europe), I must admit one thing I still don't get is the downright OBSESSION Americans (mainly guys) seem to have about not wearing pants. And just to avoid confusion, let me state here for the record that yes, I'm a guy too, and no, I'm not a nancyboy, or a feminist, or any chump of that sort.

I still have to ask though --
What's wrong with wearing pants?
Yes, I can see the entertainment value in participating in something like a no pants subway ride. Hell, I might even participate in it if I lived in a city that had a subway. Especially if there are girls doing it to.
I can also see why one might opt to not wear any pants while at home.

But I'm not talking about these particular cases. What puzzles me is that guys all over the states seem to constantly feel oppressed by the fact that society expects them to wear pants. For god's sake, there was even a super bowl ad this year featuring a bunch of guys wearing no pants, marching across a field and proclaiming their apparent delight in the form of a song (ironically enough, it was an ad for pants).
If wearing pants is really such a big issue to you, why don't you just start wearing kilts? If enough people do it, it might even become a fashion trend.

I, for one, love wearing pants. I don't see anything wrong with wearing pants. They keep your legs warm. They keep your ass warm. They keep the family jewels warm, especially in FREAKING JANUARY. Why take them off?

As long as I lived in Europe, the only person I've seen not wearing pants was Homer Simpson. From my experience, there are no men who would prefer not wearing any pants -- the "no pants" meme seems to be an entirely American phenomenon.

The only explanation I can come up with is the fact any kind of public exposure of body parts is generally frowned upon, as evidenced by the lack of nude beaches, and general derision of nudists as perverts, while Europe in general is much more tolerant of these things (for example, there is usually no fine for women sunbathing topless on a public beach). If that's the reason behind the "no pants" obsession, however, this would lead to the conclusion that Americans, or at least a sizable percentage of them, are all secret exhibitionists, but lack the balls to stand by it and vote for according changes in the law (i.e. oppose the closing of nude beaches, reform public indecency laws, etc.). Maybe the no pants subway ride is secretly a demonstration of this, but why, then, claim that "there is no message"?

Am I missing something here? Can somebody please explain what the hell is the big deal with wearing pants in this country?

wow, im from pinas, i would like to see that dramatic action from subway, More powers

Huzzah for the 2010 No Pants Metro Ride! About 500 of us met up in D.C. to ride around in our underwear for a few hours of frigid fun.

Apparently over a dozen countries and 30+ cities took part in the event. It's both crazy and awesome to think that there are so many people willing to have a random good time like that.

I just read this article about a girl in Austin going to a PUA workshop. Really hilarious, thought you might want to read it. http://austinist.com/2010/01/13/hello_my_name_is_pick-up_artist_boo.php

tanner, I too, have an american flag speedo. my is actually a thong.

I've got a few cool pics of roaming around the town with it on.

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Thats awesome. I wish I lived in subway city

I completely forgot about this event until two people walked by me with no pants on in Union Square. I totally missed out!

I heard about this the day after it happened. We do not have a subway in this city and everyone is very prudish but I have vowed to a higher power that next year I will be pants less on a train wherever I may be!

Sounds good...I'm always up for taking my pants off!