The hip-hop drooping pants thing...

[eauclaireliberal]

I heard recently that that is actually a prison statement that the person wearing it is someone's bitch and that others are not supposed to touch that person.

If true, this makes the white kids around here doing that around here and in the burbs even more funnier.

[southpaw]

1. The way I heard it

it was prison code that the person wearing sagging pants was available to be someone's bitch.


Either way, I always chuckle when I see some kid sagging...

[pokerfan]

20. not according to snopes

but it is a prison thing...

http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp">Sag Harbored

[Robb]

2. All I know is next time those whipper-snappers walk on my lawn

...there will be stern letters written to the editor of the newspaper.

[kiva]

3. Saw a kid this weekend walking down the street,

he had to hold up his pants with one hand to keep them from dropping, and stepping gingerly (apparently you really can't walk normally in those pants). I want to tell the girl with him to walk faster just to see if he could keep up.

[eauclaireliberal]

8. LOL you should have

Then follow with a digital cam. Funny as hell.

[kiva]

14. Poor kid would let go for a few step, then the slide would

begin and he'd have to grab--maybe he was new to the whole thing.

[1gobluedem]

18. I once saw a kid's pants fall completely off

It was hilarious. For someone who obviously thought he looked cool....he sure didn't.

[PassingFair]

4. It's illegal in Flint, MI....."Crackdown on Indecency"

[Deja Q]

5. Teehehehehehe, you said "crackdown".

:rofl:

[eyepaddle]

7. LOL

Well played, sir. :giggles: ;)

[Arugula Latte]

17. Frankly, I've had enough of your cheek.

:eyes:

[Deja Q]

19. ..

:)

[PassingFair]

26. Bummer....

:rofl:

[cwydro]

6. I thought the whole thing started in prison.

No shoelaces because they take them on intake; same with belts, hence the droopy pants.

[applegrove]

10. I thought they wore jumpsuits in prison.

[cwydro]

11. Maybe it was county lockup.

But you do have a point there.

[LeftinOH]

9. Regardless of where it began-- it looks *really* stupid....n/t

[applegrove]

12. How do the pants stay up when they are hanging off somebody's butt? I was walking behind

a kid who pants were down below his butt but they mysteriously stayed up. I wanted to ask how he did it (two way tape?) but was too shy.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. I once saw a dude with his waistband barely above his knees.

I used to wear pretty baggy pants in high school, but that was just ridiculous to see.

[Arkansas Granny]

15. I've wondered that myself when I've seen kids who were wearing their hip pockets

on the backs of their knees.

[SeattleGirl]

16. Whenever I see a kid wearing pants that way, I have an urge to

sneak up behind him and yank them down, laughing maniacially the whole time.

However, I'm too nice to actually do something like that. :)

[mzteris]

21. me, too. . .

It's such a totally ridiculous "fashion" - more so than bell bottoms/hiphuggers, zootsuits, halters, miniskirts so short they may as well be nonexistent, rhinestoned glasses, greased back hair, and cigarettes rolled up in a tshirt sleeve... i mean, come'on...... droopy drawers?? Looks like they got a load in their pants. . .

[sniffa]

22. I always thought it was for smuggling/shoplifting.

[hobbit709]

23. Can't outrun the cops in them, fall down and go boom.

Yeah, we all wore clothes that upset our elders but like I told the one kid "I could outrun the cops in my clothes", knowing that he got busted when he tried to run and got about 8 steps before falling flat on face.

[annabanana]

24. I seem to remember that it started with handmedowns...

. .wearing oversized cast-offs from older siblings..

[Captain Hilts]

25. It's a 'prison' thing because when you get arrested, they take your belt away. nt