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Where do you find relatively cheap Parachute Pants?

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  1. Butterfingers

    Butterfingers Member

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    Looking for some MC Hammer style parachute pants for a school pageant show.
    Ive looked online but they are like 80-100 dollars. Im going to check value village this coming weekend but i was wondering if anyone else knows of any places i can look for them. Looking to spend under 40 dollars. 50 max.
     
    #1 Butterfingers, Feb 16, 2009
  2. BrooksBall

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    Call MC Hammer. He's not busy and needs the money. Fi dolla!
     
    #2 BrooksBall, Feb 16, 2009
  3. Royals Ego

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    hea he numba

    fa fa na fa fo na na
     
    #3 Royals Ego, Feb 16, 2009
  4. marks0223

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    Usually when I buy parachute pants I go to.....wha?

    If someone knows the answer to that question without doing some digging that'll make my day.
     
    #4 marks0223, Feb 16, 2009
  5. no_answer

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  6. droxford

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    seems like there's a lot on Ebay.
     
    #6 droxford, Feb 16, 2009
  7. mtbrays

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    I'm not sure Value Village is the place. They really don't focus on kitsch that parachute pants are certainly part of. Instead, they seem to take whatever they can get, mostly your uncle's old dress shirts.
     
    #7 mtbrays, Feb 16, 2009
  8. SWTsig

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    leave my uncle out of this
     
    #8 SWTsig, Feb 16, 2009
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  10. mrpaige

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    1984.
     
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  11. Mr. Clutch

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    Sorry, I only know where the expensive Parachute Pants is at.
     
    #11 Mr. Clutch, Feb 16, 2009
  12. IROC it

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    Are you confusing parachute pants from '84 and genie pants from '90?
     
    #12 IROC it, Feb 16, 2009
  13. Butterfingers

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    looking for something what MC Hammer is wearing in this video :D :

    <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vNeO5QSs6c4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vNeO5QSs6c4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
     
    #13 Butterfingers, Feb 16, 2009
  14. Butterfingers

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    do you have a link to where i could buy them, i might have to resort to shelling out more money if those are the only legit pants available.
     
    #14 Butterfingers, Feb 16, 2009
  15. IROC it

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    Genie pants.



    Look up a pattern, like from a sewing shop...
     
    #15 IROC it, Feb 16, 2009
  16. Shroopy2

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    If its only a 1 one time thing, maybe see if they're returnable somehow? Or cheat the system and make up an excuse why you had to return them. Unless you WANT to keep them around.



    And yes, "original" parachute pants were a bit different and sleeker than the Hammer style shammockery of cruddiness he conjured up. Also the video, gotta like how they wear either outright baggy pants or tight spandex biker shorts. No in-between pant for that production
     
    #16 Shroopy2, Feb 17, 2009
  17. leebigez

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    Check Turbo and Ozone :D

    Really, just find a seamstress,get a pattern or tell them what you're looking for and they will sew them up cheaper than dirt. After that, they'll call all their old ass friends and laugh all day.
     
    #17 leebigez, Feb 17, 2009
  18. krosfyah

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    This thread is awesome.

    Anyway, I concur that Hammer didn't wear parachute pants. I don't ever remember seeing those pants in stores ...even at the time ...because even then they were ridiculous. That said weight lifting pants were very close. Check out Gold's Gym or something. I'd be at the gym and see some massive dudes wearing these stupid looking pants that looked like Hammer. haha.

    If you can't squat 1000 lb, then maybe those pants would give you that certain Hammeresque motif you so desire. ;)

    Oh, one last thing.

    This thread is useless without pictures (of you in those pants).
     
    #18 krosfyah, Feb 17, 2009
  19. MadMax

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    Try Chess King.
     
    #19 MadMax, Feb 17, 2009
  20. MoBalls

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    Dude, I really laughed out loud.
     
    #20 MoBalls, Feb 17, 2009
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