Cladwell | Pull Your Pants Up (A Brief History of Saggy Pants) (2024)

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What is sagging pants a symbol of? ›

It was later declared a symbol of freedom and being aware of fashion culture with many teenagers and young adults. It was also the symbol for rejection of the values in the mainstream society. It is often said the style got started with the United States' prison system. In that system, belts are sometimes not allowed.

Saggy pants are already unlawful in other South Carolina cities, as well as parts of Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, and New Jersey. Plenty of nightclubs and restaurants have banned the style on the grounds of decorum, despite a general backlash that the rule has racial undertones.

Hitching up your pants before sitting down to prevent overstretching them with your knees is helpful, but if you're likely to forget, try wearing a belt with your jeans instead. Belts help to keep your pants up and maintain their form over your body.

They were largely an underground trend in the early 1990s, but took off in popularity in the mid-1990s. The baggy jeans were very popular along with baggy bondage pants during the nu metal era which lasted from the late 90s to the early-to-mid 2000s along with pop punk during the same time.

Origin. The style was popularized by hip-hop musicians in the 1990s. It is often claimed the style originated from the United States prison system where belts are sometimes prohibited due to fear that they could be used as a makeshift weapon, and there can be a lack of appropriately sized clothing.

If you describe something as saggy, you mean that it has become less firm over a period of time and become unattractive.

OPA-LOCKA, Fla. (AP) — After 13 years, a South Florida city has overturned a ban on “saggy pants” — bottoms that reveal the wearer's underwear.

A Louisiana city repealed its so-called “saggy pants” law after a black man was shot during a confrontation with police. The Shreveport, Louisiana, law, first enacted in 2007 during a wave of similar bans across the country, burdened black men with hundred-dollar fines for wearing pants that fell below their waists.

It wasn't until 1923 that the attorney general declared it was OK for women to wear pants in public in the United States. INDIANAPOLIS — No matter what they were called, pants, slacks, and trousers were off limits to women for much of recorded history.

Many guys will tell you that they “sag” their pants because it is the popular thing to do. They tend to think that this makes them look “cool.” However, in prison, this fashion comes from the brothers signaling that they are looking for sex.

Does sagging pants cause health problems? ›

For instance, sagging pants can alter one's gate and affect the pelvis, lumbar spine, thoracic spine, and cervical spine. And skinny jeans that are too tight can cut off the nerve flow to the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, causing tingling in the thigh.

Wider, elastic belts or those with non-slip materials can be more effective for those with a bigger belly. They can adjust to movements and provide consistent pressure to keep pants in place.

After that the “master” would then rape said slave. Actual anal penetration. That slave was now what was called broke. He would then wear his pants with the sag to show he was broke. Not sure how it became a popularized fashion statement, but many criminals seem to wear their pants like that.

Next to the practice of breakdancing, sports like skateboarding helped push the popularity of baggy pants.

The term 'harem pants' subsequently became popular in the West as a generic term for baggy trousers caught in at the ankle that suggest the Turkish style, or similar styles such as bloomers, the South Asian shalwar and patiala salwar; the Bosnian dimije; sirwal (as worn by Zouaves); and the Ukrainian sharovary.

What Are Slacks? The word slacks comes from an old Saxon term that meant loose. Somehow, slacks became the new term for dress pants. As dress pants, slacks are not tight, are not elastic and are different from jeans, chinos or khakis.

Loose-fitting clothes are rather large and do not fit tightly on your body. adj usu ADJ n.

to droop; hang loosely: His shoulders sagged. to yield through weakness, lack of effort, or the like: Our spirits began to sag. Synonyms: weary, tire, flag, weaken.

To Be/Get Caught with One's Pants Down means to be taken by surprise in a vulnerable and often embarrassing or guilty position, posture or situation.