# Can we please ban saggy pants? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038 "2010-11-01T01:52:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![supergalactic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@supergalactic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergalactic)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/1 "2010-11-01T01:52:57Z")
Nothing makes you look more like an idiot than wearing size 40 jeans on a 28 waist. These guys even have belts and they still walk around holding up their pants with their hands. I don’t want to see your underwear. The only time I want to see boxers that aren’t mine are when they’re new in the store. This is just proof that hip-hop makes you stupid. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/2 "2010-11-01T01:55:09Z")
I like the saggy pants. It’s like a gigantic “MORON” sign right on your ass. It allows me to easily determine whom I should avoid. ---
**Author:** ![TurboNuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@TurboNuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TurboNuke)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/3 "2010-11-01T02:30:17Z")
I saw a kid trying to play basketball with the baggy pants. He had to stop to pull up his pants after every shot. It was ridiculous. I know I’m old and so new trends are going to seem stupid but this one REALLY is stupid. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/4 "2010-11-01T02:33:02Z")
While I don’t think it’s exactly the heighth of fashion, o my brothers, I’m just laughing about the image that this thread being in the pit calls up for me. Saggy pants! Goddamn kids and their pants and rap music and they’re all on the drugs! Get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/5 "2010-11-01T02:35:19Z")
Don’t ban **saggy pants** ; I find most of his posts informative and reasoned. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/6 "2010-11-01T02:38:37Z")
All that hippity-hop music is just a passing trend. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/7 "2010-11-01T02:40:37Z")
Me, I wish they’d stop combing their hair into ducktails. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/8 "2010-11-01T02:42:23Z")
You can’t hide a forty down regular pants. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/9 "2010-11-01T02:49:27Z")
Or a forty-four. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/10 "2010-11-01T02:55:17Z")
Print off a bunch of pictures of [Stringbean](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MX8hM9GnL._SL290_.jpg) [Akeman](http://fiddleandcreel.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/david_stringbean_akeman.jpg?w=273&h=424) and pass them out whenever you see these ‘Stringbeans’. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/11 "2010-11-01T03:01:46Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > Or a forty-four. Couldn’t you just keep two twenty-twos in your shoes, instead? ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/12 "2010-11-01T03:09:09Z")
This as been discussed here before, but what surprises me is that that look is still going. It’s been almost 20 years. Shouldn’t it have gone out of style? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/13 "2010-11-01T03:14:57Z")
> [@Palooka](#): > > Couldn’t you just keep two twenty-twos in your shoes, instead? The razor goes in your shoe. The .32 gun goes in your pocket for fun. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/14 "2010-11-01T03:16:28Z")
Well, yeah, I guess, but how are the mods going to enforce it? I mean I usually post while wearing either nothing or a hate speech slogan t-shirt and they haven’t been able to do anything about me yet. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/15 "2010-11-01T03:28:56Z")
Soon. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/16 "2010-11-01T04:51:44Z")
> [@TurboNuke](#): > > I saw a kid trying to play basketball with the baggy pants. He had to stop to pull up his pants after every shot. It was ridiculous. > > I know I’m old and so new trends are going to seem stupid but this one REALLY is stupid. This is not a new trend. By “not new” I mean I literally cannot remember when baggy pants weren’t a common sight. I would suggest you all try to get over it. I’m sure, after twenty years, you can come up with some sort of coping method. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/17 "2010-11-01T05:00:23Z")
I usually just mock them. Hey, you! Yeah, you with the crotch at his knees! This twenty bucks is your’s if you can run 2 blocks without hiking up your pants or them falling to your ankles! IT’S CALLED A BELT MOTHERFUCKER, USE IT PROPERLY! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/18 "2010-11-01T05:09:18Z")
My favorite was a [news story](http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/dpgonc-NY-Killer-Tripped-Pants-Plunged-Death-fc-20091218_5152028)about a criminal who was wearing baggy pants and fell to his death. Criminal and fashion justice dovetailing nicely. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/19 "2010-11-01T05:09:43Z")
I’ve actually seen guys with pants sewn to the bottom of their boxers, in order to keep the pants from falling down without having to suffer the indignity of wearing a belt. It makes me wonder if they ever change their undies or what. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038/20 "2010-11-01T05:44:30Z")
Or if they’re wearing underwear under the underwear. Do you think it’s a whole boxer sewn to the pants or a fake out like those t-shirts with the long sleeves sewn into the t-shirt sleeve so you can have the look of t-shirt over longsleeve without having to wear a long sleeve shirt and a t-shirt. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-ban-saggy-pants/559038.md?page=2)