Professor Thomas Bernstein (Life Cycles of Communist Regimes) is wise in his old years.  Earlier today, he explained a fashion phenomenon with a silver tongue:

“I don’t understand why it is that people wear baggy pants. Soviet leaders used to wear them in the 1950s, but then they wised up, got Italian suits and looked pretty spiffy. Today, young men wear baggy pants all the time. I think that they must have a disease, perhaps testicular elephantiasis.”

Thanks to Rachael McMillan for the e-mail.