This. I see this shit now and I’m just like, “WTF?!” With the ‘old-school’ sagging, it at least was done in a pair of jeans that naturally fuckin’ sagged. These guys today look like they take such painstaking efforts to get those tight-ass jeans pushed half-way down their asses. :smack:
Somewhat off-topic: what about persistence of 1980s hair? I still see a lot of women, mostly working-class and/or rural whites, with a coiffure straight out of the Reagan era. It can;t be as if they’re unaware of more contemporary fashion trends; I can’t imagine even Eastern Europe or -Stan countries being in that much of a time warp.
I live in a town that’s heavily populated by hippies, and I see a LOT of 1960s hair - long, flat, straight, parted in the middle.
Do they tend to be in their 50s/60s? If so, they may have settled on a hairstyle (or have come back to one they found when) they were in their 20s/30s. Perhaps urbanites are more fashion conscious or less interested in doing things the way they were done a generation ago.
I know. I don’t wear those either. I do admire to a small extent the women who can wear very high heels and be perfectly graceful, but they are few and far between.
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Bieber’s saggy skinny jeans look like he tried to put on pants too small, got them up to but not over the butt, and left them there.
I guess it could be seen as the male answer to showing your bra? I don’t know, it looks awkward to me.
I read somewhere that there had been a number of increased successful arrests by police because suspects with their pants practically falling off are a lot easier to catch in a foot chase. This sortof pleased me.
I have noticed, when I am at the Wal-Mart in my not incredibly urban hometown, that people’s fashions/hairstyles appear to have been frozen the moment the graduated from high school.
Regardless of ethnicity, few young males continue sporting this look very far into adulthood, and teenaged boys don’t want to look like their fathers.
I think that’s your answer right there.
More than that, teenagers want to show that they are people who are independent of their parents and who don’t need their parents’ approval. Dressing in a way your parents don’t approve of is a harmless way to do that.
Obviously, if the point is to show that you aren’t like your parents and don’t care what your parents think of how you dress, your parents’ vocal disapproval is not going to dissuade you from dressing that way. It’s more likely to have the opposite effect.
They are even causing trouble on airlines. And why the hell did the airline let him on the next flight? You get rowdy and we have to call law enforcement? NO FLIGHT FOR YOU! NEXT!
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Really, even if he did end up pulling up his damn pants, I would think that they would ban him at least for a while. What an idiot in more ways than one.
Isn’t the sagging pants style the reason for underwear with the names on the waist bands? You cannot advertise your pair of $45 designer boxer briefs unless your pants droop low enough.
“Designer Underwear” is one fashion trend I don’t get.
I don’t know about anyone else in this thread, but a very large amount of those who I see dressed like this every day are easily in their 20s-30s. They are certainly not just teenagers rebelling against their parents.
I’m not sure. This coupled with the other-relatively recent boom in that demographic of living with Ma and Pa well into one’s mid-to-late 30’s and it very well may be rebellion; albeit not very impressive. 
Yeah this is correct. I said “kid” in the OP, but these are really more 20 somethings than teenagers doing this style
I thought I’d seen the worst of sagging but saw some teenagers a few days ago. I so wish I had a camera with me. They were sagging their swim shorts at the beach, 4-5 inches of boxers showing, hitching up the shorts as they ran into the water.
I don’t know how it has survived. But this was in New Hampshire so I hope it is the tail end of the trend.
An acquaintance was telling me the other day about the petty crimes he used to commit, such as shoplifting. He said he would regularly go to changing rooms, layer on the clothes, and walk out. “You’d just put on the clothes and walk out?” I asked. “Yeah,” he said, “Why else do you think everybody wears such baggy pants?”
Obviously that doesn’t explain the mass appeal of the style, but I thought it was an interesting data point.
I saw a young man with sagging jeans yesterday afternoon. He had gray underwear and he happened to be white.
Neckties aren’t a fashion trend that is decried by a large portion of society. And they don’t prevent movement.
But, let’s say they were equivalent. Why would there be a problem asking the question?
With that in mind, what is the purpose of your comment, other than to imply that we are all cultural snobs?