# Sagging Pants Is "Illegal" Now!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161 "2005-02-09T07:45:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/1 "2005-02-09T07:45:07Z")
I am aware that I am one of the few, if not the only “Doper” who thinks sagging pants looks just fine but who is willing to back me up and say that [this law](http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1850190) is stupid. I doubt it will go any further than it already has but it’s gone far enough already :smack: . ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/2 "2005-02-09T07:46:23Z")
> [@START](#): > > I am aware that I am one of the few, if not the only “Doper” who thinks sagging pants looks just fine but who is willing to back me up and say that [this law](http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1850190) is stupid. > I doubt it will go any further than it already has but it’s gone far enough already :smack: . Punctuation! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/3 "2005-02-09T08:13:17Z")
That article is from last May. The bill in question was rejected by the Louisiana House in June. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/4 "2005-02-09T10:13:51Z")
Well, I heard a similiar story on the radio tonight. I don’t remember where it was, though. I’m sure someone will be along and post a link. Agreed it’s an utterly ridiculous law. And really, I’m in my 30s and it’s as legitimate a fashion as any other that teenagers throughout the ages have adopted. It doesn’t look bad at all to me. It will of course look ridiculous to START and everyone else 20 years from now, though, just as what I wore in HS in the 80s looks quite horrible now. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/5 "2005-02-09T10:45:18Z")
Found the [story](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=483138). It’s state bill in Virginia. It proposes a $50 fine for displaying underpants in a “lewd or indecent manner”. Virginia legislators must have an awful lot of time on their hands. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/6 "2005-02-09T10:50:26Z")
And it just occurred to me that Virginians who like wearing baggy pants should, to remain in full compliance , just stop wearing underwear. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/7 "2005-02-11T10:55:36Z")
I think that sagging pants look silly, but this law is downright _idiotic._ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/8 "2005-02-11T12:50:53Z")
Just so you know, the droopy drawers bill died in the Virginia Senate yesterday… ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/9 "2005-02-11T13:32:32Z")
> [@zuma](#): > > And it just occurred to me that Virginians who like wearing baggy pants should, to remain in full compliance , just stop wearing underwear. 😃 And thereby trigger a wave of anti-public-asscrack legislation across the country. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/10 "2005-02-11T13:46:25Z")
> [@zuma](#): > > Found the [story](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=483138). It’s state bill in Virginia. It proposes a $50 fine for displaying underpants in a “lewd or indecent manner”. Virginia legislators must have an awful lot of time on their hands. This just passed. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/11 "2005-02-11T13:52:25Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > This just passed. [No, it didn’t](http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/10/droopy.pants.ap/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/12 "2005-02-11T13:52:41Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > This just passed. In the House…the Senate killed it. Apparently, because the coverage it was getting was “embarrassing.” ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagging-pants-is-illegal-now/289161/13 "2005-02-11T13:53:01Z")
No it didn’t. It died in the Senate.