For the last seven years, a renegade group of anti-pants New Yorkers have held an annual No Pants Subway Ride event, which last year attracted over 200 participants. In 2006, it even garnered several arrests. And now a Facebook group has popped up promoting a copycat event here on D.C.’s Metro this Saturday, Jan. 12.

The proposed event, scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, currently has 82 confirmed guests on Facebook and another 140 people who are listed as maybes. The organizers, Elizabeth Ody and Richard Julian, are asking anyone who’d like to ride Metro without pants this weekend to show up at 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Dupont Circle fountain (please wear pants to the rally point), where they’ll get you organized into groups and send you off to different Metro lines in an attempt to blanket the rail system with the pantsless.

On the one hand, we’re not so sure this event will be as popular here as it is in New York City, given this town’s slight penchant for buttoned-up-ness. On the other, the social organizing possibilities of sites like Facebook mean there could be a lot more people without pants popping up on Metro this Saturday than we might normally expect. Either way, we hope at least a few of you DCist photographers will stop by to capture the event it all its bare-legged glory.

Photo by sgoralnick