Sagging

[Machiavelli]

Who started the sagging of the pants   I think that shit has been around for like 20 years.

Just curious...

[white Boy]

i dunno, i like my pants to fit

[Machiavelli]

i dunno, i like my pants to fit

I dont want to suficate my snake, it needs breathing room.

[white Boy]

big dif between fit, and tight, ...

[allfromtheIE]

it started in prison

[AndrE16686]

it started in prison

Yeah people say dats where it came from, cuz you had to remove yo belt to step through metal detectors. Maybe it started wit MC Hammer? Just guessing.....

[Don Seer]

i dunno, i like my pants to fit

I dont want to suficate my snake, it needs breathing room.

 

reminds me of..

"wearin biker shorts is like chokin on ya nuts"  - del the funkee homosapien..


seriously though.. i remember baggies coming in fashion over here in the dying days of the 80s (when skin tights were fashionable)... being a skateboarder then and now though i've always rocked my shit baggy... today is a rare day i'm wearing 'normal'-ish jeans.. 

"saggin so hard i'm tearin up the back of my khaki's" - tray deee..

its true.. i got a new pair of khaki's i got just before xmas that are totally fucked up on the back.. n i just bought two pairs of baggy cotton pants for skatin in the summer (jeans give betty swollocks..) and they scrape so i know they gonna fuck up..
i aint rock that shit hangin off the waist.. just buy em phat 

[Caution2006]

yeh werd, i like to give my nuts some air so i sag a bit

[Throwback]

i just wear my 501's one size to big. 32>34.

[Shahizzle]

DONT SAY I DONT DO N E THING FOR YALL ... I FOUND THIS THING HERE ABOUT THE ORIGINS, CHECK IT OUT ..

Sagging, the fashion of wearing pants with their waistbands around the hips (or lower) rather than snugged to the  midriff, has been and continues to be a controversial style of dress. Although this sartorial fad is overwhelmingly favored by young males, it is not limited to them — young women have at times likewise indulged in the urge to sag.

The practice, which did begin in prisons, worked its way from the hoosegow into hip hop culture. It was adopted by a variety of rap artists, such as Ice-T and Too Short, which enhanced its perceived tough-guy cachet. Sagging can even be taken a step further by wearing the droopy breeches backwards. (Totally Krossed Out, the 1992 debut album of Kriss Kross, shows the pair of 13-year-old rappers doing this.) By 1995 the style had seeped into mainstream teen culture — one no longer needed to be a wannabe "gangsta" to sling 'em low.

Pants worn this way are kept up by constant hitching, an act that becomes an integral part of the walking style of the wearer.

While sagging did gain its start in the U.S. prison system, it was not a clothes-wearing style authored by imprisoned homosexuals intent upon advertising their interest in casual flings. Sagging pants became the behind-the-bars thing thanks to ill-fitting prison-issue garb: some of those incarcerated were provided with clothing a few sizes too large. That oversizing, coupled with the lack of belts in the big house, led to a great number of jailbirds whose pants were falling off their arses. (Belts are not permitted in most correctional facilities because all too often the lifeless bodies of their inmate owners have been found hanging from them.)

Sagging has another false rumored origin, one less well-traveled than the "gay inmates advertising for sex" one:
[Collected on the Internet, 2003]

What's the origin of Gang-banger pants? You know, worn really low and baggy? Before they became a fashion statement, and/or MADE that way by assorted clothing companies, I heard it originated in a prison: An inmate was on suicide watch and couldn't have his belt, which the other inmates were either outraged by or thought was ridiculous given the inmate in question. So they started wearing theirs really low in protest/solidarity. Anyway, that's what I heard.
The most interesting aspect of the "trolling for gay sex" rumor lies not in its veracity, but in its acceptance as gospel by those who encounter it and who are then moved to pass it along themselves. While the combination of two facts (homosexuality in prison and falling-down pants worn by inmates) accounts for the origin of the belief that links the one to the other, its spread is attributable to the prevailing dislike of the fashion. Those who choose to wear their pants this way cite comfort as their reason for doing so and so find justification for this imitation of rap stars and felons, two groups perceived as toughly self-sufficient and thus worthy of emulation; those who do not follow this fashion see only the crotches of jeans hanging at or above the knee, hobbling their wearers in a goofy manner. (One can walk in sagging pants. But one can't run in them.)

The rumor becomes a way of passing along one group's disdain for another's sartorial practice. Communicating that the saggers are unwittingly offering their backsides to all takers when they think they are mimicking admired rappers and identifying with tough guys no sensible person would mess with becomes a way of saying "The joke is really on them." This same sense of surreptitious delight over being in on a prank someone looked down upon is unknowingly playing on himself fuels another urban legend that involves medallions flaunted by society matrons or Chinese character-emblazoned sweaters proudly worn by their knitters and even some of the "misunderstood souvenir" tales told about globe-trotting tourists.

While sagging is embraced by a number of young people, it is far removed from being the subject of widespread approval outside that demographic. Various communities have attempted to ban this form of fashion statement. In February 2005, for example, the Virginia House of Delegates passed the so-called droopy drawers bill, legislation that would have imposed a $50 fine on people who wore their pants so that their underwear was visible in a "lewd or indecent manner." That bill was killed by a senate committee two days later. In May 2004, Louisiana lawmakers attempted to say no to plumber's crack by passing House Bill 1626, legislation that would have made it a crime to wear clothing in public that "intentionally exposes undergarments or intentionally exposes any portion of the pubic hair, cleft of the buttocks or genitals." That bill was also rejected by the state's senate.

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[YoungGotti42k]

i've been saggin for ages, but now everyone is wearing tight jeans, some of my friends even wear girl's jeans

that's tight

[Don Seer]

^ yeah i know guy that bought some girls jeans (by the skate company Girl actually)... he twisted his knackers in em.. ROFL... couldnt help but laff..

[We Fly High]

wait are u talking about female jeans or jeans made by the company Girl.. cos if its made by the company Girl, thats some ill ass skate gear.. that and chocolate are dope related companies.

i think Game takes sagging to a whole different level. When i see him on tv, his pants are hanging so fuckin low. i noticed that hes holding up his pants 90% of the performance, which is hellla funny.

[Don Seer]

yeah .. female jeans by the company girl

[Sikotic™]

Sagging is so 1995

I wear pants that fit me now.