Maria Pavon Professor: Adam Berzak ENG1200 August 9, 2017 Sagging Pants Saggers are everywhere, from Alaska to Florida, New York to Arizona, California to Ohio. Saggers are people, mostly young men who like to wear their pants particularly low in the hips, usually revealing about 4 to 6 inches of boxer shorts. Now days many young people wear sagging pants without knowing the meaning and origin of this fashion. During the past few years, sagging pants has become a fashion trend worldwide. While this fashion trend is popular with many of today youths, and some adults, a wide margin of the population find this style of clothing offensive ridiculous and inappropriate. Our society is always criticizing saggers but it is their decision how to …show more content…
This made the style popular among hip-hop fans who liked following their idols. In 2000s this fashion remains popular, but it has recently made a comeback in the 2010s, with celebrities like Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, Ludacris Justin Bieber and more bringing back the fashion trend. Sagging style in the 1990s was focused on baggy trousers with plaid boxers, but in the 2010s sagging has become popular with skinny jeans and branded boxer-briefs. When ingenuous young people see these images of the men they idolize, they think it is cool to dress like them, and they overlooked all of the negative reactions involved with it. Shawn Thomas is a 17-year-old high school student who sag his pants says. “It shouldn’t matter to people how I want to wear my pants, the key word I that being MY. I don’t tell older people I don’t like how they wear their clothes, so they shouldn’t say anything about how I wear mines”. According to many people, young man who wears sagging pants are criminals because the history of this fashion comes from the prison. In my opinion, there is a sad level of decency in this country, and its too bad people always jump the gun and point fingers when they have nothing better to do with their …show more content…
I do not see the problem; to me it is just another fashion. This style of clothing has been referred to as ridiculous and revealing. It has been characterized as be the common phrase of people saying, “I don’t want to see your butts”. Abolition of this style of clothing has been taken so far as to being brought on to the government and the involvement of organization to get rid of it. The president Barack Obama appeared on MTV and said that, “Laws banning the practice of wearing low-slung pants that expose one’s underwear were “a waste of time…Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants. You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What wrong with that? Come on. Some people might not want to see your underwear. I’m one of them.”. The question being asked for many of us “it is that
I feel that in today’s society that men are discriminated against for the way they wear their clothes, specifically, their pants. For many guys sagging your pants are a fashion statement, although many people perceive individuals sagging their pants as “bad” individuals. As a kid, I did wear my pants below my butt, but as I grew older, it gradually raised. I am a professional person, but my style and my comfort have my pants lie just below my hips. I wear a belt, but having my pants all the way above my waist makes me extremely uncomfortable. Even for my wedding, I had to have my pants altered, because tuxedo pants only sit high on the waist. I find it hard to have a law against someone’s choice of fashion, and that one could get fined in some states for sagging your pants. It seems a bit discriminatory when some women can go out barley wearing anything and get fined. The sagging pants law should be eradicated because it is discriminatory and a waste of resources, and instead left up to the community to decide weather they would like to provide services to people who sag their pants.
Depending on who you ask, this fashion became popular in the early 1940’s. As we can see, history has a tendency to line things up for the “perfect storm.” This just so happen to be the time that thousands of service men, fresh out of boot camp arrived in Los Angeles looking to blow off steam before being deployed into combat around the world. To these service men, large baggy pants and jackets were a symbol of hate or disrespect to the
What ever happened to having your pants on your waist? It’s apparently now called a “fashion” to have them below your ass. Though sagging looks hideously ridiculous there is some history behind it I bet many of you do or don't know. For instance According to Greg Mathis, sagging was adopted in the United States prison systems where belts were sometimes prohibited to prevent prisoners from using them as a weapon or committing suicide by hanging themselves but that style was later popularized by hip hop artists such as snoop dogg and others in the 1990’s.
Life is full of distractions and, for high school students, inappropriate clothing has the potential to grab much attention. However, does the matter of clothing warrant strict rules? I agree that, like alcohol, the students’ attire should have rules regarding whether or not the choices in clothing are suitable for a public school setting. I also agree that violators of school rules should receive punishment for their lack of compliance to the school policies. However, there is a fine line. Some schools, like Carroll High School, are taking dress codes too far. One rule in particular hinders the students’ ability to wear pants with holes in them. It makes sense that holes located in certain places might cause a...
Towards the end of the decade the Hippie movement had a huge impact on the way people started to view clothing. This group rebelled against war, encouraged peace and love. Their presence had a major influence on fashion. They opted for clothing that was natural and comfortable. Accessories w...
On June 11, 2007, Delcambre Louisiana introduced the first ‘Pull Up Your Pants’ law in America to include a penalty of six months in jail or a $500.00 for weary pants sagging below the waist and revealing a person’s buttocks covered only by an undergarment (Koppel, 2007). This public indecency campaign, directed primarily at African American youth, continues to show intolerance and contempt for this social faction 's form of fashion and cultural expression of low-slung pants. However, Laurel’s city attorney Deidra Bassi of Laurel Mississippi’s 2015 Pull Up Your Pants campaign is concerned this could be perceived and challenged as a violation of civil rights (Howell, K. 2015).
A lot of the times what women wear is sexualized, just because a girl is dressed a certain way doesn 't mean that she wants to hook-up with someone or that she is “asking for it”. The way a girl dresses doesn 't have to have a hidden meaning behind it, maybe that 's just what she feels comfortable in. Women are expected to dress respectfully at all times while men can wear whatever they want and there would be no problem with it. Pictures that are posted on social media get different reactions depending on which gender posted it, while there are some things that should not be uploaded for everyone to see, it does not change the fact that we cannot control the reaction that is received. “The idea is that women should look nice and well put-together without turning anyone on, or reminding anyone of sex.” (Throwbridge) We can 't control what others think of when they see us, if their thoughts automatically jump to something sexual we are not to blame. If a guy is wearing shorts with no shirt doesn 't mean there is a hidden meaning behind his choice of clothing, it is in they way you interpret it. Even then, you should not act on your thoughts, just because you believe something does not mean that it is right. As a nation, we need to take the step to stop
Although clothing styles change from generation to generation, the newest fad is always a result of the old. It’s a cause and effect relationship, if children of this generation are dressing inappropriately, future generations will find this acceptable and go a step further. If clothing restrictions are enforced in the now, there is hope for future generations.
In the 2015 article on The Atlantic on The Sexism of School Dress Codes, stating that "Many of these protests have criticized the dress codes as sexist in that they unfairly target girls by body-shaming and blaming them for promoting sexual harassment. Documented cases show female students being chastised by school officials, sent home, or barred from attending events like prom." (Zhou, l.) There are more dress code policies for the females compared to the males. For example, girls should not use backless shirts, no spaghetti tops, no crop-tops that exposes the stomach, no short shorts, no miniskirts, etc. Boys on the other hand have no specific dress code policies. Dress codes may come off as sexist for women and they get insulted by it. An article on the problem with dress code from The Daily Princetonian stating "- women are policed so that they are no longer distracting to men, while men, if policed at all, are never told to change for the benefit of the opposite sex. The most prominent example that comes to mind when thinking of male-specific supplements to dress codes relates to sagging pants, an urban trend where pants are worn low to expose many inches worth of boxers. Efforts to ban these practices have never once mentioned how visible boxers would tortuously distract nearby females. Rather, they focus on visible underwear being inappropriate for a learning or work environment.", based on that article, dress codes seem to be a little too specific on what girls should or should not be allowed to wear, while boys only have a few dress code policies to worry
You know what I just don’t get is how people are getting back into denim. I don’t see it much in school but out of school it is dennom everything. You see denim something everywhere, denim dresses to socks. I am totally not against denim, I mean i do wear jeans but I would not wear a denim dress or shirt. I just think it is so weird people used to hate wearing denim on denim. People would look at you weird if you have a denim jacket on with jeans, and now you are cool if you are dressed in denim from head to toe. I just don’t understand it! Why I think being dressed in denim from head to toe is definitely not flattering. I think if you decide to wear denim you should pair it with something that is not denim!
Fashion is one of those things that people can claim they don't care about. They can defend again and again that it doesn't matter what one wears, it's the person who wears it. But in all likelihood they will continue to be judged, as we all are, for the clothes on our body, the shoes on our feet and the hairstyle we are sporting.
In the world of fashion, there is denim. It is one of the world’s oldest fabrics, and has been modified and remodelled to go with the latest fashion trends. The first ones who wore this fabric are workers in the California Gold Rush era, designed by Jacob Davis because of its sturdy material that withstood the harsh working conditions. Not just them, even sailors from Italy use this material too as their sailing uniform. Then, it started appearing as an actor’s apparel, and that’s when denim started to become one of a fashion item. People started wearing jeans as part of their daily apparel and even adding their own ideas, such as studs and colouring it with different shades of denim. It doesn’t only stop around that era, but today, they are seen everywhere and has become a major clothing piece for almost all of the age groups. As a reference, we can see young children already wears jeans as part of their clothing, the teenagers added jeans to their wardrobe, and even for the seniors, they consider jeans as a simple and comfortable clothing pieces.
Another thing people tend to say that makes fashion offensive is how people do things like sag their pants, not wear undergarments, or dress up like a gang member. These styles are often looked down on as they are considered inappropriate as they are said to show too much skin or may give people the wrong idea. First, sagging pants doesn’t reveal any skin as the undergarments still cover the the person’s butt. Next, people who don’t wear undergarments usually are covered up pretty well. Lastly, dressing up like you are a gangster is an objective thing. Gangsters dress up like normal people, saying somebody is dressing like a gangster doesn’t really mean much. None of them are offensive. It fair that people will give these styles an odd look, but they aren’t even close to offensive.
INTRODUCTION: As a retail major at Florida State, I have been able to learn a lot about my love for fashion. One thing that is true about me is that I love to understand the origins behind different subjects, whether that is my family or, in this case, piece of clothing. Perfectly tying those two worlds together, I am going to be talking about the origins of denim jeans. First I will go over the history, then I will go over how jeans became popular, and lastly I will talk
Levi's has always tried to minimize the impact culture has on its ability to produce standardized products and campaigns. This is done to achieve economies of scale and a higher quality but cultural differences can be very important in the global and domestic markets. The characteristics of a particular cultural group will affect the type of products it desires and how they purchase it and use it. From the 1950s to the 1980s Levis was the image of rebellion and counter culture with public icons such as Elvis and Marlon Brando publically seen wearing the brand. This helped in giving the brand an image of originality and authenticity. But what Levis failed to grasp was that culture changes through time and consumer behaviour and choices change along with it. The rap culture which began in 1992 brought about new trends of loose baggy clothes. Levi's which sold straight tapered jeans failed to meet the needs of its consumer market who demanded loose baggy jeans which were considered as "cool" at the time. This demand was fulfilled by competitor brands such as JNCO, Kickwear and Boss etc who were quick to grab on to Levi's market share with products which were more suited to the younger generation. Even the rebellious image of Levis was taken by other brands like Diesel and Pepe.