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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by sp332 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:58PM (#8305114)
I heard it originated in prison, but differently. Wardens would give out ill-fitting clothes to humiliate the inmates. So people on the outside made saggy clothes "cool", that way the badly-dressed people on the inside would feel normal. It was just solidarity with ill-treated prisoners.
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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by ChuckMcM on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:50PM (#8305066)
When I was a kid bullies pulled your pants down to your knees to embarass you, I guess now they pull them up :-)

But more seriously kids get to an age where they want to declare they are not their parents, the go to method of choice has been clothes since well since forever. The cycle is that the kids wear it, its shocking, then as they get older they are wearing it as "adults" which then makes it establishment, so the kids behind them make up some other fad. Rinse and repeat. I think making dress code laws is both absurd and hopeless.

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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by cafard on Thursday September 11, 2014 @07:23PM (#8305788)
A corollary: everyone detests looking like his father, nobody minds looking like his grandfather. My brother and I would not under any coercion worn shorts with dark socks and dress shoes, as our father routinely did in warm weather. Some kids don't mind that now. Think also of the "Teddy Boys" of the 1950s, wearing the clothing of the Edwardian period ca. 1910.
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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by jqm on Friday September 12, 2014 @12:29AM (#8306595)
I don't really care what people wear, but a zoot suit or an afro isn't the same as exposing most of your underwear in public.
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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by tthomas48 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:29PM (#8304975)
This is pretty much the longest ongoing trolling effort in existence.
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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by CamperBob2 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:42PM (#8305033)
Well, that's sartorially normative, isn't it? Check your privilege.
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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by tthomas48 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:53PM (#8305084)
Yes I suppose it is. I guess I should say it the other way. I'm impressed with the long-botheredness of people in power regardless of the intent of the people wearing the fashion. Most of the time parents, clergy, etc give up after a decade or two and accept something as normal.
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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by cafard on Thursday September 11, 2014 @07:20PM (#8305773)
Do I get a receipt?

More nearly seriously, am I supposed to check my privilege the way I might check my fly, or check it the way I might check my raincoat or my baggage?

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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by tthomas48 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @10:47PM (#8306380)
The way you check Google, before you look like an ass on Hacker News.
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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by acconrad on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:55PM (#8305095)
I always thought wearing baggy clothes meant it was easier to conceal weapons.
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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by Zigurd on Thursday September 11, 2014 @08:43PM (#8306060)
Check for symptoms of moral panic.
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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by ianstallings on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:26PM (#8304957)
"[For the wearers,] it's a mechanism to reclaim dignity that's been taken away from them," he said.

Uh, you're doing it wrong!

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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by qu4z-2 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @11:53PM (#8306528)
You may only reclaim your dignity in one of the following pre-approved fashions?
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Re:Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street ... by ianstallings on Friday September 12, 2014 @08:47AM (#8307699)
Do you really think wearing your pants down over your ass is going to reclaim your dignity? If so I got news for you - it's going to do the opposite. If that's a surprise to you then I'm surprised myself. If you object to it then yell at the sky, because it's just as likely to change things. Welcome to the real world, where these things matter.
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