Stop The Sag!

[hammervice]

Beware, beltless jeans: Your days may be numbered. New York state Senator Eric Adams is taking a stand against the sagging trousers of Brooklyn’s youth.

The politician’s tools of choice: an earnest but far from hip YouTube video. Billboards paid for with his own campaign funds. And a message he hopes will become a catch phrase for covering up: Stop the sag.

The look all started with “prison chic”—fashion that, according to the UK’s Telegraph, is inspired from inmates forced to remove belts and shoe laces while behind bars. But without a catchy song, we’re not sure the message will be heard: The campaign could have gotten a lift by making Larry Platt’s “Pants on the Ground” the anthem for the movement. The “American Idol” contestant’s song basically says everything you need to know—and went viral on the Web. (You can check out the video of Platt’s performance.)

Instead, there are billboards around Brooklyn that feature the backsides of two young men with their pants dropped below their underwear. Fashion crime? According to Adams, yes. But no actual laws have been broken. So for now, these two camps about pants will have to agree to disagree. Adams does plan to lobby the New York school superintendent about imposing a dress code that puts a cinch on the sag.

 

[newage]

i have no qualms against the sag...and its not cuz im black !

 

[Tom]

They can't run much with their pants like that!!
The police should have no trouble chasing them down if they commit a crime.:rofl:

In reality most I've seen, I sure don't want to see!!! And they have to
us one hand to hold them up at that half way point. So personally I don't understand the need to look like that.
You get a really cold ass in winter.
You can't walk very well.
You can't carry anything.
And like I said before, it's always the least desirable people in my neck of the woods.

 

[yowza]

I'm from NYC and it's doesn't bother me....
Actually it's fun to look at them walking & running up and down the stairs.
I just couldn't help laughing.:rofl:

 

[BugsyB]

I dont mind the sag..as long as its a cute guy

but it is funny as hell to see them walk with one hand holding up there pants:rofl:

 

[Otage]

I agree with the senator

 

[ERICOOL85]

LMAO
enuff said XD

 

[XMan101]

In all my years this to me is the most ridiculous and stupid looking "fashion statement" I've seen. It's ugly, sruffy and impractical. What gets me now is that even clean cut kids from the "middle classes" are dressing like this.

One day, when they're as old as me, they'll look back their photos and feel wonderfully embarrassed ) At least I looked not too bad with longish hair , leather jacket & cowboy boots in my youth

 

[chromatic]

I like saggers.
Maybe it is a kind of playing with erotic feeling but without a real awareness.

since fashion does not allow tight jeans as in earlier periods- like the 70 and 80ths- the boys butts are out of sight and this gives a small opportunity to show a little bit of the desired body parts.

 

[ritsuka]

I have no real problem with sagging, either. Actually, I think it is revolting that this state senator is spending his time and money harassing young people about their clothes and attempting to put up fascist dress code regulations instead of trying to address the dire poverty that the urban poor of color in new york city have to deal with on a daily basis.

 

[brmstn69]

When my nephew was about 12 or 13 he started wearing his pants like that until one day I pulled him aside and convinced him that in prison, sagging pants was a sign that you were looking to become some dudes bitch and to advertise the goods...

He's 18 now and since that day I have never seen him without a belt...:rofl:

 

[Ecclesies]

i have no qualms against the sag...and its not cuz im black !

my sentiments as well.

Besides. If the sag is stopped, how else are they going to "accidentally" come off/get ripped. devious

A little sag is good. knee-sag is where I draw the line.

most white kids who sag are either 1)fronting 2)"trained" as such, or most commonly 3) they just need new(longer) clothes

I'm also seeing small changes from "gangster" to "civilized." An abnormally large influx of prepwear and a suprising amount of peacoats. Glad to say I was inb4

 

[jw4833]

I'm not crazy about the sag look either..but I did have this pic taken of me ..just for laughs..see I do my sag thing in private...or when no one is looking..lol

 

[LuiM]

Come one guys. What's wrong with you??
Are you saying: no more these?

 

[bowwow]

The lower the better! I love seeing their ass cheeks move when they walk.

 

[loveless92]

It's nice to look at silhouetted boy butts, but the image is just so bad, and should only be done if the actual meaning is taking place, i.e. single and looking for a boy.

 

[bowwow]

There doesnt need to be a meaning or reason for me. Who doesnt like to see this?

And then imagine seeing those cheeks move when they walk. I dont get how anyone can be against this! lol

 

[bowwow]

Go to the 8:40 mark on this video and watch that ass move! Maybe this will change your minds about sagging.

 

[jeansGuyOZ]

In all my years this to me is the most ridiculous and stupid looking "fashion statement" I've seen. It's ugly, sruffy and impractical. What gets me now is that even clean cut kids from the "middle classes" are dressing like this.

One day, when they're as old as me, they'll look back their photos and feel wonderfully embarrassed ) At least I looked not too bad with longish hair , leather jacket & cowboy boots in my youth

I agree with all this.

However I also think that trying to enforce some kind of fashion sense is pointless and will just make these kids into martyrs. I am happy with public education campaigns to tell people that it looks gross, but I am uncomfortable with suggestions that the lawmakers should poke their noses into people's fashion sense. If they can ban sagging pants one day, they can ban tight jeans and short shorts the next. No, let these kids look as daggy as they want, and let me dress how I want as well. There are far more important social issues to address.

 

[hawtsean]

The look all started with “prison chic”—fashion that, according to the UK’s Telegraph, is inspired from inmates forced to remove belts and shoe laces while behind bars.

could be one of the origins of sagging. I heard that in the New York (USA) ghettos, it was mainly due to hand-me-down jeans and other clothing. Smaller guys wearing bigger brothers' stuff and of course that would cause sagging. another ghetto version is that loose and saggy seats and jeans are great for hiding weapons underneath the saggy folds. I heard a California ghetto tale that sagging was intended to diss the cops - like almost showing bare ass (which is illegal on the street) but not quite, just enough to make the point of kinda saying kiss my ass by showing underwear.

Whatever, it's ugly and stupid looking to me. sorta like an idiot fashion statement gone viral