Sag My Pants

Remember when on any given day you could walk down the street and see at least 6 guys with their ass hanging out their pants?  Fortunately that number could probably be trimmed down significantly,

depending on where you're walking.

It seemed like everybody was walking around with their pants around their knees, thinking they look fantastic.  In reality these people looked absolutely ridiculous.  This fashion caught on so much that I could walk through a middle school and see a bunch of 12 year old kids with their pants sagged.  Even some of the classier girls got in on this fad.

I was kind of lost in attempting to define this in a more professional manner, or to find its origin so I did what any resourceful individual would do; I wikipedia'd (real verb) it.  Here's what I got:


"Sagging is a manner of wearing trousers (slacks, shorts, pants or jeans) which sag so that the top is significantly below the waist, sometimes revealing much of the underwear. Sagging is predominantly a male fashion. Women's wearing of low-rise jeans to reveal their G-string underwear (the "whale tail") is not generally described as sagging."

"According to Greg Mathis, sagging was adopted from the United States prison system where belts are sometimes prohibited to prevent prisoners from using them as weapons or committing suicide by hanging themselves. The style was later popularized by hip-hop artists in the 1990s. It later became a symbol of freedom and cultural awareness among some youths or a symbol of their rejection of the values of mainstream society."

I really don't think that any "saggers" were flaunting their boxers as a symbol of freedom, but they did create quite the reaction.

Many local governments, schools and transit agencies made rules and regulations attempting to rid of the fashion.  Even Obama reacted to the fashion, but said that laws banning it 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's wrong with that? Come on. Some people might not want to see your underwear. I'm one of them."

Perhaps the biggest factor in sagging's disappearance was activist "General" Larry Platt, who performed a song on his American Idol audition called Pants on the Ground in 2010 in which he tells all saggers that they look like fools.  He was also in his mid 60s at the time.

Thanks to the heroic efforts of Larry Platt, and some other brothers like Obama, sagging has pretty much disappeared from the streets.  All it really took was someone to make saggers realize that you're lookin like a fool with your pants on the ground.