Several white male youth who wear their pants sagging were interviewed for the story. All declined be identified. Jason Jacobs, 15, who has been wearing the sagging style since he was 9, said he wore it for the wrong reasons.
City resident Ronald Huggins, 22, who does not agree with the sagging fashion, said he believes the black community is the hub for style and fashion for other ethnic groups. New Haven hip-hop and graffiti artist Dooley-O Jackson said hip-hop introduced the style to mainstream society because youth had no other options to express themselves.
A "Stop the Sag! The sag has finally stopped, but not because of any public campaign. Ford, an associate professor of black American studies and history at the University of Delaware and author of "Liberated Threads. Others see sagging as a symptom of contemporary America's fondness for sloppiness. They wear flip-flops to church. We've become a more relaxed culture. Miller doesn't even pretend to bring any academic detachment to the subject of sagging.
Some critics, including Miller, are so glad to see this fashion trend evaporate that they don't care why it went. They're just glad it's on the way out. What if everyone started wearing a toga? What stopped the sag.
Indeed, finding examples of the kind of urban art Ford described has become difficult, as we discovered on a recent afternoon. It was a perfect day for sagging: a balmy, sunny afternoon in downtown Atlanta, lunchtime crowds filling the sidewalks, young men checking out and flirting with women on the city's bustling streets. If you think sagging is a strange fashion trend, consider the codpiece in the 16th century. We set off to interview some saggers, but after an hour, we had found none.
All the young people were wearing skinny jeans. Then, just as we had given up, we came across four young men in various states of sag walking with a young woman near a park. We soon discovered that even within this group of holdouts, there was little swag to their sag; they admitted they don't dare sag like they used to. Jordan Farmer, 18, wore modestly sagging green jeans that showed just a hint of his undergarment.
He's a wiry young man with a small earring in his left ear, a goatee and a calm, almost professorial, manner. Farmer said he tries not to be "disrespectful" with his sagging. When asked for an example, he said, "Too low is when you have your butt out and you're showing your underwear. Some areas have begun to outlaw this style recently Apparently the objection is the amount of underwear shown.
He was sagging, hitching up his pants, shuffling down the street, with a swagger. He was really busting a major sag. This is seen as a "cool" way to wear pants, as seen by the number of rappers, skaters , rock stars, etc. Usually a belt is not worn to reinforce sagging.
I was walking down the street , and my pants were sagging, so i had to pull them up every 3 seconds. Wearing your pants in such a way that you shit your pant for a month and no one would know exept for the smell. Thompson is now a junior at Columbia College Chicago. Our talk last week was inspired by the controversy over the six black young men from Washington University in St. The young men believe the incident was racially motivated because one of their white friends was allowed into the bar wearing baggy pants.
The bar owners insist they were following a dress code, in place to keep out gangbangers. Although one of the black students wrote an essay about the Oct. He understands how the style can create misperceptions because, during his brief sagging period, a white video store manager falsely accused Thompson of trying to steal a video game and kicked him out of the store.
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