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    Sagging is a style of dress where pants are worn below the waistline, exposing underwear. It originated in the early 1990s among African American and Latino youth and became popularized in hip hop culture. While some see it as a fashion statement, others argue it started in prisons where belts are confiscated. Several cities and states have attempted to pass laws banning sagging in public places like schools due to perceived threats to decency, though many such bans have been struck down over concerns about targeting minorities. The debate over sagging remains ongoing in communities across the U.S. and other parts of the world.

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    Sagging is a style of dress where pants are worn below the waistline, exposing underwear. It originated in the early 1990s among African American and Latino youth and became popularized in hip hop culture. While some see it as a fashion statement, others argue it started in prisons where belts are confiscated. Several cities and states have attempted to pass laws banning sagging in public places like schools due to perceived threats to decency, though many such bans have been struck down over concerns about targeting minorities. The debate over sagging remains ongoing in communities across the U.S. and other parts of the world.

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    Sagging is a style of dress where pants are worn below the waistline, exposing underwear. It originated in the early 1990s among African American and Latino youth and became popularized in hip hop culture. While some see it as a fashion statement, others argue it started in prisons where belts are confiscated. Several cities and states have attempted to pass laws banning sagging in public places like schools due to perceived threats to decency, though many such bans have been struck down over concerns about targeting minorities. The debate over sagging remains ongoing in communities across the U.S. and other parts of the world.

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    Sagging is a term used to describe a style of dress. It basically means wearing your pants
    below the waistline. In many cases, undergarments like boxers are visible. Individuals
    who wear saggy pants are known as “saggers”. When sagging began around 1992, the
    style was mostly popular among African-American and Latino youth. But in the decade
    and a half since then, sagging has become more and more popular among suburban youth
    and adults as well. There are saggers of all races now and people are sagging all over the
    world! Rappers like Tupac, Ice-T and Too Short used to sag…and remember the group
    Kriss Kross? They helped make the style even more popular by wearing their pants, not
    only baggy, but backwards too! R&B and hip-hop groups like H-Town…. and even the
    girl group TLC began wearing baggy pants with their boxers showing. And rapper Nelly
    still continues to sag today.

    America’s love-hate relationship with sagging continued when


    Marky Mark helped push the style into the spotlight after appearing
    in Calvin Klein ads with model Kate Moss. It’s funny how people
    allegedly hated sagging so much yet one of the world’s top
    designers embraced the style. Some say sagging started in the
    prisons…There are several reasons for this theory. When inmates
    are first processed, their belts are taken away so they can’t be used
    as a weapon on others or to hang themselves. Sometimes inmates
    were simply given pants that were too big…and some believe sagging was a way to
    encourage sexual activity with other inmates. Also, in some communities where families
    were poor, younger kids were given “hand-me-downs.” Sometimes the pants were too
    big, and so they’d sag.

    WWE Pro-wrestler John Cena is well known for sagging during wrestling matches. But
    sagging low in classroom could get you a trip to the principal’s office. That’s because
    sagging is banned in many school districts across the country. In fact, some cities and
    states have tried to pass laws banning sagging. In February 2005, the Virginia House of
    delegates passed the “droopy drawers” ban but it was killed by the senate. Saggers would
    have been fined 50 dollars.

    In May 2004, Louisiana passed house bill 1626 which would have
    made it a crime to show your underwear in the Bayou State.
    However, the senate said “sorry”. Meanwhile, individual cities in
    Louisiana have taken the matter into their own hands. Saggy pants were outlawed several
    years ago in the small town of Opelousas. And in June of 2007, Delcambre, Louisiana
    banned baggy britches. If you’re caught sagging in this small town of 2,000 in Cajun
    Country, you could face a $500 fine and 6 months in the slammer. Delcambre’s
    ordinance touched off a frenzy of saggy pants bans as other Louisiana cities and parishes
    jumped on the “banning bandwagon” within days. In Louisiana, baggy pants that expose
    underwear are now banned in Lafourche Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, Desoto Parish,
    Lake Charles, Mansfield, Alexandria, Bogalusa, Shreveport, Abbeville, Minden, Eunice,
    Merryville and Breaux Bridge. They’re also prohibited in Pine Lawn, Missouri…Opa-
    Locka, Florida…Riviera Beach, Florida…..Hawkinsville,
    Georgia….and Flint, Michigan.

    In the northeast, officials in Stratford, Connecticut struck down a


    proposed saggy pants ban in late August 2007. They said it would
    unfairly target minorities. And a proposed ban in Brazoria, Texas
    fell through the “cracks”. The mayor dropped his proposal and
    council never voted on it. And in September of 2007, the small
    town of Brookhaven, Mississippi took a stand when it refused to implement a saggy pants
    law that was considered after someone complained about saggers. A number of
    communities have voted AGAINST laws prohibiting sagging including: Natchitoches,
    Louisiana ….. Lauderhill, Florida….Lauderdale Lakes, Florida…. Pine Bluff, Arkansas..
    …Baltimore and Charlotte. For several years, State Senator Gary Siplin (D-Orlando) has
    tried unsuccessfully to pass a state law in Florida banning public school students from
    sagging on campus……... In April 2008, lawmakers refused to sign his bill into law yet
    again and instead decided to let local school districts make their own rules….a similar
    bill was shot down by the Louisiana legislature that same month….sagging would have
    been prohibited throughout the entire state, not just on school campuses.

    Many, many communities across the nation are currently considering bans on
    sagging….far too many to list…from Atlanta to Dallas…to Yonkers, NY and Brunswick,
    Georgia…the controversy has been reported by media in countries around the globe
    including Australia, Finland and Iran.

    So much for our Constitution, which is supposed to protect our “Freedom of Expression.”

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