Always makes me think of the American Idol audition of “Pants on the Ground”…
I know it’s supposed to be rebelling against the adults (and what a stupid way to rebel) but what about when adults are still doing it? Any man who doesn’t have his pants belted around his waist is not a man, I say. Most young people styles I hardly notice but this one is just so ugly and dumb.
I thought the trend was started by prison conventions: no belts in prison = pants on the ground = gangsta wannabees wearing their pants low for street cred.
I’d say 90% of saggers look like like idiots. But 5% have jeans that are actually constructed to look saggy along with complimentary aspects in the rest of their look, and it’s somewhat fashionable; and 5% are good looking fellows who let their pants sag just an inch, enough to get a tantalizing peek at their boxers and it’s sexy.
Nononononono don’t encourage them.
I could never get along with a trend that requires me to wash my underwears regularly.
I think the solution is an ad campaign that shows how dumb it is, like comparing it to bell-bottoms from the 70s, or leisure suits.
[billboard]
on left: picture of guy wearing pants around knees
on right: picture of guy wearingbell bottoms
Which looks dumber? (Hint: the guy on right has his pants on correctly.)
[/billboard]
A lot of* classic* Levi’s had a wider than average rear yoke that resulted in sagging. Classic meaning the jeans the company was putting out in the mid-twentieth century. The only modern jeans that can be sagged and still look good are made by companies that have borrowed liberally from those early Levi’s designs.
Underwears? Plural? Well get a load of Mr. Fancy. 
I saw this recently while at a company picnic at a amusement park – someone was wearing his pants totally low below his arse with his boxers sticking out the back. I was mildly surprised as I thought this trend had passed by now – I live in Chicago and though I don’t usually hang out at the seedy parts of town, I do get to see some wacky stuff nonetheless.
And I really do love that comment in the OP’s link from the 19 year old.
“I’ve got my own fashion quirk – wearing what everybody else wears.”
I’ve got to admit, that fashion pisses me off. Just as it did 15 years ago. Stupidity aside, what I can’t believe is how uncomfortable that must be. I cannot stand wearing pants that won’t stay up. How do you carry two bags of groceries when you have to keep holding your fucking pants up?
I recall reading about some robber getting caught by tripping over his pants in Denver, but I can’t find it. In any case, searching for “criminal tripping sagging pants” gives you plenty of hits.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16830505/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/baggy-pants-trip-robbery-suspect/
I was in high school from 1992-1996 and I can assure you that sagging was not part of the fashion at the time. We did wear baggy pants but they were not belted around your knees, they would usually ride down onto your hips/butt and stop. Besides, everyone wore such baggy tops (T-Shirts and flannels) that you wouldn’t be able to tell if someone’s underwear was showing, anyway.
Any fashion that involves showing your underwear is not OK.
That makes me 2 years older than you so I hope you’ll forgive an old lady for misremembering 
Still between the crotches down to the knees, ripped up filthy cuffs, ten pounds of safety pins, and hair gooped up with stuff to make it look like it hadn’t been washed for a year a couple inches of visible underpants would have been the least of the offenses.
I don’t see these pants all the time any more. I do still see them, of course, but they don’t seem as popular. I saw two late-teens a couple weeks ago goofing around on an el train, and they got off at the same stop as me. I was behind them, and couldn’t stop myself from laughing at them. They seemed a little miffed about a 40 year old fat white lady laughing at them. I have an unfortunate problem with the giggles - once I start it’s very difficult for me to stop until they’ve run their course. Sometimes I just keep giggling, and sometimes they turn into outright guffaws. This was one of those times. So they skedaddled off the platform pretty quickly, while I stood, bent over, laughing my ass off. I’ve learned to just go with it, there’s no point in fighting those damn giggles. So I just kept pointing and laughing, while saying between gasps for air … BELT!.. under your butt! … knees! … try running! … can’t catch me!.. nice undies …
I’m sure they thought I was one crazy old lady. I’m giggling a little again just writing this. It’s too bad I’m not some hot fashionista, my criticisms might have been taken to heart.
I see them here constantly, every day. It seems to have increased within the past year. Almost entirely worn by 14-29 year old Black males. I saw *one *women dressed like this *once *(during the gay pride parade.) I’ve seen a few white guys doing it, but they never have the belt starts below the whole ass look.
Just today when I went out for lunch and then on the way home from work I saw 7 that stuck out as crazy below the ass low, those are just the ones I actually remember.
(And this is in Soho.)
Nonsense. They’re keeping a great tradition alive.
I see guys all the time walking and trying to hold them up and it looks like they need to go potty.
It’s not my look, personally, but since it doesn’t affect me directly, I don’t care.
Though I appear to be an outlier here.
No worse than a pair of pants with 30 buckles and straps gotten from the machine press “goth-hipster” stores, imo.
Although I guess one could argue that we’re talking fashion here, I still think MPSIMS is a better home for it. Let’s waddle it over there.
twickster, Cafe Society moderator
They don’t really bug me. Sometimes I see a kid running around with truly giant pants, and I want to just pinch his widdle cheeks, he’s so adorable, but so far I’ve managed to refrain. It’s a truly hilarious fashion, though.
Went to a show a bit ago, at a festival, a guy going juggling stuff with saggy pants, and kept having to stop and drag them back up.
Someone threw a belt at him, got the biggest round of applause of the whole show