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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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