Can someone explain the rationale behind "low" pants?

[Scarlett67]

@Snickers

My husband tutors some disadvantaged youth, and he said that one of the kids he tutors stopped sagging when his two-year-old niece laughed at him. So there is hope.

Took me a while, but I finally found this post, which has stuck with me ever since:

@BraheSilver

I think last week I may have misadvertantly participated in the end of some kid’s clothing rebellion.

I was leaving a store and passed a family on the way in; the mother and father were dressed “normally” (I say that in quotes because I can’t really remember what they were dressed in, so it wasn’t anything that stuck out in my mind) and trailing behind them was a boy, I guess about 13, wearing baggy pants with the belt around the mid-thigh to keep them from falling off, a tight black t-shirt, a spiked collar and spiky hair. I must have snickered after passing by, which I admit may have been rude, but he looked so goofy waddling along.

The father turned around and asked if I had laughed at his son. I explained that while the kid was fully in his right to dress that way, I wasn’t offended but I did think he looked stupid. He turned back to his family and said “Yes! He was laughing at you!” The boy looked so crushed, I almost felt guilty.

I can imagine the conversation that went on beforehand:
Boy: I do not look like an idiot! I’m hardcore!
Father: Fine. We’ll go out in public and see about that.
Boy: Fine!

[Johnny_L.A]

For those of you wondering how they keep their trousers up:

Stringbean 1 (external view).

Stringbean 2 (internal view).

[running_coach]

@Scarlett67

Took me a while, but I finally found this post, which has stuck with me ever since:

To quote Jeff Foxworthy: “If your parents still drive you to school, you ain’t no gangsta, pull your pants up!”