This is getting ridiculous



Maybe a little..ahem...exposure of this issue will get guys to realize how ridiculous they look.

Until then...

Don't get me started!

There is a ban @ the schools I work @ on wearing clothes in this manner. The kids, for the most part, have complied. They are given a chance to pull up their pants. Those that don't are sent home & the parent(s)/guardian(s) are contacted so...

A little bit in an appropriate setting (i.e. non-school, non-work, etc) is kinda hot... that right there is just ridiculous.

But I won't lie and say that I don't like a dude wearing some mesh shorts with a little bit of his boxerbriefs peeking out.

Agree. Just a lil!

I think this look is absolutely RIDICULOUS. It is just sloppy and ghetto. HOWEVER, when a brotha or papi chulo is wearin his pants like that and he has a phatty I kind of give him a pass because at least I got to look at something nice. But overall its just not a good look to me. Not classy at all.

That's the thing though - rarely is there actually anything nice to see! It's like ya know, you gonna show off, having something to show!

So true!

A friend, who is a teacher, and I have had an on-going debate about the origin of sagging.

He thinks it comes directly from the loose and ill-fitting clothing given prisoners. Urban black youth picked it up as part of the thug image.

I've theorized that it runs deeper than that, going back to the youth of poor kids who, not having older brothers from whom they might get hand-me-downs, were forced to wear excessively loose fitting clothing until they grew into them.

In either case, the fad reflects an attempt to turn a symbol of poverty and powerlessness into something fashionable and empowering. Sort of like the inversion of the N-word.

Regardless, the statement sort of totally is lost when it's been co-opted by the Abercrombie & Fitch crowd.

The original popularizers like these famous saggers probably had no idea that the look would take on the obvious homoerotic aspect reflected by photos of the "Guest saggers" on the same website. Nothing is new: Original Roman Sagger.

Togas not withstanding, the sagger look has been around in its current incarnation for about 15 years. Isn't it past time for another look to become fashionable?

totally thought this thread was about testicles

I cast my vote for the prison uniform look. That's why we did it...can't believe that was almost 20 years ago. But there was a lot of fashion experimenting going on at the time in the early 90s. The movie "House Party 2" with its Pajama Jammie Jam popularized people wearing pajamas to school and Kriss Kross came out with the song "Jump" and with their backwards clothes inspired people to wear their outfits backwards and inside out.

I have never been a fan of sagging per se but it's interesting to me that the young black men who first started it at my high school were suspended 3 days for doing it and now I see it everywhere. Weird how our culture works.

You make a strong argument for the "prison uniform" theory JO - pun unintentional - but I remember sagging from far earlier than that. It's just that it wasn't tolerated during the era of corporal punishment. Believe me no one would continue to allow their pants to "sag" when it presented a better target for principle's paddle.

If you forgot to wear a belt you had to let teacher put embarassing safety pins in it or something; and you wouldn't dare take your belt off deliberately, because he/she might have decide to use it on you.

That aside I'm surprised that some sagging has not become a safety issue.

I know this guy could creat a safety issue for me.

Now sagging as a fashion statement is a different matter. But as we all know, half the stuff you see on runways is either grossly out-of-reach expensive, ridiculous to look at or downright impractical to wear comfortably walking the street.

One could argue pro or con on whether sagging is unsightly or the highest of haute couture, but I witnessed one of the problems with the look yet again yesterday.

Have you ever seen someone try to run for a bus with sagging pants? Hilarious!! The poor soul almost fell because he couldn't do a full stride, grabbed his waistband to hold his pants up and made a valiant dash for the bus. The bus driver slammed the door in his face (not cool), and drove away. People in the vicinity, including me, were suppressing laughter.

Have you also noticed that guys who sag walk like penguins? Seriously. They have to walk a bit splay-legged to keep their pants up and, since the can't take a proper stride, they sway slightly from side to side just like penguins.

Now I love me a man w/ a bubble butt & like sooner2727 said a lil sag or a minor exposure of a man's undies doesn't bother me in such case. But the 1st pix that you posted sil is simply ridiculous & not fashionably eye-pleasing, imho. To be frank, it is much too ghetto 4 my taste. I mean the whole idea of wanting to FULLY expose one's undies in public is simply tasteless & tacky. Now @ home in private, especially if he's a papi chulo w/ a phatty as mt01 pointed, that's a different story. In fact, his undies would quickly be stripped off his bod even b4 he can say, "saggers."