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The NY Post is not shying away from tackling large-scale national issues. So following some comments last week from President-elect Obama dissing guys who let their pants ride low, they sent a reporter out onto the streets of New York to see what kind of reaction he'd get while looking like a lost member of the Funky Bunch. The reporter, Justin Rocket Silverman, encountered girls who rejected him, a maitre d' who begrudgingly gave him a table and cops who told him how much they enjoy the gangsta style because it makes chasing perps all the easier as they struggle to keep their waistline up. The Post says that New York is considering a fine against the look that has already been put on the books in Lousiana. Obama doesn't support going that far, but did say, "Brothers should pull up their pants. You're walking by your mother, your grandmother, and your underwear is showing - what's wrong with that?"
Post Tackles Early 90s Middle School Fashion Trend
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Hey Billy! You are reporting on a style that KIDS are wearing this style. 12-early 20yrs. Not so much your old, white reporter. Maybe the occasional Pharrel or Nigo, but they can do whatever they want.
The kids who dress like that don't want these ugly white chicks anyway. So who cares what they think!
I agree, fine those idiots!
Even worse so when they are wearing white undies and you will feel like you are indeed looking at their asses.
The saggy jeans look is old, tired and stupid. But making a style illegal is even more stupid, and goes against our rights as Americans. We have the right to wear what we wish, no matter how stupid it looks. Sag your pants with pride, gentlemen.
Fining people for the way they wear their clothes is insane. It's not public indecency or anything -- they don't have their junk out on display. The calls to regulate stuff just because some people don't like it have really gotten out of hand.
All the plumbers in the house! Pull your pants up! this is the kind of hard hitting journalism foxnews is spouting? I remember yesterday when they were trying to blame him for saying he didn't want a "mutt" in the doghouse meaning that he was self-hating his bi-racial status. I agree that pulling you pants up lets police know who's a douchebag criminal. You guys don't realize why people wear oversized jeans and oversized t-shirts yet? it's really simple. They are poor. Poor people can't afford to wear fitted clothes because most peoples bodies change month to month. they buy the largest size possible to hide their body dysmorphic disorder. Also on the street just like in mother nature the need to look bigger than you are is a camouflage. The bigger jeans and bigger t-shirts make the scrawny guys look like they are bigger so they don't get picked on.
Obama usually walks around with his ass hanging out of the back of his pants. I guess we will have to start getting used to this in the oval office.
#5
Originally the custom of wearing baggy pants and shirts came from poor black families who had to wear their brothers hand me downs. These days when you can be extra baggy pants from upscale designers at Macy's, It's not just poor people who are wearing these anymore.
Someday, I tell you, we will elect a president who has the big droopy going on.
Hugo mego you always so insightful, fair and elegant!
The whole fashion that blurs into the political statement of "I'm so ghetto" is just for kids (or non very grownup adults) That is, IMMATURE.
I think fashion is transitory, but if the style is a badge for constant recklessness it just not cool.
Time to infuse some dissonant resistance into the rule of some.
The bottom line is Obama is supporting self respect and the only way to get to that is your own actions and own responsibility.
I believe the baggy clothing look came out of a prisoner life aesthetic. Prisons don't normally tailor fit their customer's clothing, so the one size fits all look became popular among the thug culture.
Another reason the oversized clothes look was popular is that you can hide more stolen shit when out shopping.
There have been poor people for generations in this country and they always wore clothes that fit. Not from wearing hand me downs. This is a prison style adopted by the masses. Why not attack hipsters who wear pants way too tight?
Hey, it could be worse. Would you rather see underwear, or plumber's/handyman's ass crack?
#12- it's an interesting dichotomy of gangsta baggy vs. hipster skinny. It's like lilluputians vs laputans. I myself prefer, a a low rise, straight fit, slightly skinny, but not nut crunching tight.
#5, #7, #10...I've heard many different theories on where the baggy style came from. You forgot the "baggy clothes so it's easier to shoplift" theory, the "they take your belt when you've spent a night in the holding tank" theory, the "perfect for hiding weapons" theory.
One thing is for certain: they're all incorrect.
Obama is right. I guess even a broken clock tells the correct time twice a day.
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Oh, the oblivious irony.
Isn't this the same boring douchebag who showed up to the New Jersey mayor "guido" squabble dressed as an Italian stereotype, trying to play for laughs? When did sub-Borat pranks become a journalistic standard?
i agree. nobody want's to see your nasty underwear. pull up your damn pants.
snoopy your half right. it came from one-size fits all but also the was the sign for prisoners showing that their open for business... if you're saggin your pants you're lookin for some prison booty. love how all these macho, homophobic bad boys, are puttin their asses out there for all to see. how manly is that? not at all if you ask me. fine them, do whatever, just make it stop!!!
Dumb!
The Post says that New York is considering a fine against the look that has already been put on the books in Lousiana.