New Yorkers told to 'pull their pants up'

[keep_it_real]

Mr Adams is calling for the end of the sagging trend that has become popular in men's fashion. In an online message posted on YouTube, he said: "You can raise your level of respect if you raise your pants", while pleading to young people not to "surrender control over your own image".

The politician, a retired police captain, is the latest to speak out on the trend. He follows Larry Platt, an American Idol performer who became an internet sensation earlier this year with his song "Pants on the Ground". Even Barack Obama has previously said: "Some people might not want to see your underwear. I'm one of them."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7545671/New-Yorkers-told-to-pull-their-pants-up.html

[izzybeans]

1. Is this another one of those "pants on the ground" things?

[MoonRiver]

2. Rap song, "Pants on the Ground"

Pants on the ground;
Pants on the ground;
Looking like a fool;
With your pants on the ground. :D

[virgogal]

3. Fads come,fads go. Not worth worrying about.

[nickinSTL]

5. yeah, but this fad has lasted long enough

IMO

It looks stupid, and aside from providing added comedic value to videos of police chases, I don't get the point (ever seen episodes of those shows on TruTV where the suspect gets caught because he can't run with his pants around his knees?).

Seems like this fad has been around forever and it's really way past time for it to die.

Confession: my pants do occasionally sag, but that's because I'm losing weight and it's too much trouble to add yet another hole to my belt. I never let it go far before I pull them back up, where they stay for another 5 minutes or so.<\i>

[virgogal]

6. This too shall pass. Yes it's stupid,and some day these kids will

laugh at themselves for doing it.

[murielm99]

9. I have heard that it started because in jail, the prisoners had

their belts confiscated. If the people who emulate this look admire prisoners, they are fools. I, too, hope this fad goes away.

[FirstLight]

27. i heard it was a prison thing too, but more nasty

It was a 'come on' for other inmates to make you their 'bitch' ....if ya know what i mean

[NYC_SKP]

64. No. It started in prison, has nothing to do with sex. Prisons provide oversized clothes, pants.

This had always been my suspicion (having taught in a juvenile hall for 4 years), and this snopes article seems to confirm my suspicion.

http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp

:patriot:

[jwirr]

11. You should see my idiot grandson try to do manual labor while holding

his pants up with on hand! And then he wonders why they do not want to hire him. He does some rapping for parties and there I understand the clothes but they were definitely not meant for real jobs.

[wickerwoman]

25. This was around when I was in middle school in the late 80s.

Twenty-five years isn't a fad, it's a travesty.

Come on Generation zzz... come up with your own shit. Your parents thought it was stupid when they were doing it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. This has moved beyond a fad

I've never seen a fad last over a decade like this has.

[Golden Raisin]

41. 'Tickle Me Elmo' dolls

was a fad. This has been around a long time --- minimally 20 years and probably more.

[Codeine]

51. Are you kidding?

Sagging has been going on for over twenty years now. It's lame and ridiculous.

[AsahinaKimi]

53. I totally agree

dumb, dumb.. d u m b!

[LWolf]

69. I've been waiting a couple of decades for this one to go away,

and it just keeps getting worse.

[thelordofhell]

4. It's the "I'm takin' a piss" look

:rofl:

[TorchTheWitch]

38. it's the "I shit myself" look

And why it looks so hilariously stupid.

[onehandle]

7. I am so tired of this stupid look. How many decades will this last?

It's time for the younger generation to totally rag on these idiots until this is gone.

[notesdev]

13. I like it

helps you spot and avoid complete morons from a block away or more

[murielm99]

28. We need to make it a fad that young women spot these

morons a block away or more and avoid them. The girls can put the pressure on if they refuse to have anything to do with guys whose pants are on the ground and whose stupid asses are sticking out for all the world to see.

[CBR]

45. Well. If I had done that. I never would have met nor married

my husband. The one who graduated with a BS, is a school teacher, and overall great man.

[Codeine]

58. Who presumably has the good sense

to pull up his pants and the hindsight to know he looked like an idiot sagging.

[malaise]

15. Isn't the better question

Who is making money selling these crap fashions?

[leftstreet]

22. Big money to be made in selling the uniform of the nonconformists

:-)

[louis-t]

8. I could never figure out why kids want to emulate

guys in jail. As Peter Griffin would say "Hi, I'm Peter. Look at me, I'm in jail and I have no belt cuz I'm in jail and my pants are around my knees cuz I'm in jail."

[rcrush]

10. lol who cares?

[BrklynLiberal]

12. I could not agree more. This is one of the most ridiculous fads that I have ever seen among the

young.

I heard that it started in prisons...!! What kind of role models are provided there??

[Quantess]

21. They think it makes them look tough? Only a guess.

It's pretty sad when our youth look up to convicts and think jail is cool.

[Laughing Mirror]

24. Well when you've got a country of 2 and a half million people locked up in prison

and countless millions of others out on parole, you've got quite a lot of models dictating this particular fashion statement.

Everything eventually goes out of fashion. Even the prison industry, as we know it today, will.

[Lyric]

14. Why is this important enough to waste billboard space when there are ACTUAL problems

that desperately need to be addressed? How about more billboards about homelessness? Poverty? Domestic violence? Bueller? Bueller?

[zonkers]

17. At least they are wearing underwear.

[TomClash]

16. Shouldn't Eric Adams be worrying about the State budget?

That's of more pressing concern to the voters in his district.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. He wanted publicity and he got it.

He might be worried about the budget, too.

[azmouse]

18. Of all the dumb fads that kids follow, this is one of the dumbest.

I doubt the kids will pull their pants up because an adult asked them to though.

[KittyWampus]

35. A DU'er once quipped the fastest way to kill this off is for parents to wear their pants like-

making it terminally uncool.

[joe_sixpack]

37. That's hilarious,

but it would be effective. Pick up your kids from school, get out of the car and walk toward them waving and yelling loudly. Just make sure your ball cap is turned sideways. Better yet, have grandma and grandpa do it.

[LWolf]

70. The only way faster would be for their teachers to do it,

but I'd be fired if I dressed like that in my classroom.

[DavidDvorkin]

20. It's an absurd fad, but why does anyone think these billboards will stop it?

[Gin]

23. not just kids and this stupid fad...I have seen guys in 20's & 30's with

their asses and undies exposed....all races too...stupid is as stupid does...how in the hell do they stay up?

hey...girls who wear pants cut down to the pubic hair line are just as bad and stupid..

[ConcernedCanuk]

26. You cannot stop any behaviour unless you understand WHY they are doing it

.
.
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just criticizing it will not deter it

criticizing the USA for it's wars hasn't helped a bit

we gotta figure out WHY

then plan a way to correct it - -

I think China and Russia may be working on that . . .

better if we did it at home,

no?

:freak:

[Matariki]

29. Like that's going to work.

[proud2BlibKansan]

31. I tell these boys

When I woke up this morning I had no idea that I would be finding out what color underwear you are wearing today.

[alarimer]

32. I would think that cops, for one, would welcome the baggy pants.

People can't run away without falling down.

[joe_sixpack]

33. This fad must have originated as a psychology experiment

One psychologist made a friendly wager to another that he could pick the dumbest, asinine idea and get people to follow it, if enough of an effort was made to present it as either hip or popular. The other took him up on it, believing that members of society weren't such sheep that they'd blindly embrace something that obviously made them appear as foolish, ignorant imbeciles. Guess which one won the bet?

[SeattleGirl]

34. Whenever I see boys wearing their pants like that, I am sorely

tempted to come up behind them and pull them the rest of the way down. :)

[BrklynLiberal]

36. LOL. that thought as crossed my mind as well

:thumbsup: :hi:

[salguine]

46. Gotta check they ain't go trippin' and bus' a cap, yo.

[northofdenali]

68. Yup. I remember high school -

when "pantsing" was the ultimate in humiliation for the one "pantsed".

I get SOOOOOOOOOOOO tempted. But I'm too little to pull it off, and too old to run if they decided to chase me - even with the pants on the ground! :P

[Odin2005]

39. I'm 23and I cannot STAND when people wear their pants like that. So gross.

And it is a glamorization of shoplifting, of all things, it started from people trying to steal clothes by wearing them out the door.

[Cronus Protagonist]

40. I like sagging - it's not much different from women showing cleavage

Just because this kind of cleavage isn't to your taste doesn't mean it should be banned. If you want this to end, you should, if you're being consistent, also want women to stop showing cleavage. And these boyz ain't even showing any skin anyway.

I'm looking forward to the future when guys wear pants with little holes where the nuts go, so we can see their cleavage in the front like women do with their tits and have done for thousands of years.

[Odin2005]

42. Your vulgarity is noted.

:puke:

[Cronus Protagonist]

43. Your prudishness is also noted

:hi:

[Odin2005]

47. Being kind to people's eyes isn't prudishness.

[Cronus Protagonist]

56. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I like the sagging look.

You don't. So what? There was no need for your haughty response to my post.

[TorchTheWitch]

52. oh bullshit

Women don't show their cleavage by shoving their shirts down below their breasts looking like they haven't completed dressing. The clothes that show off women's attributes are cut to fit. Women would NEVER shove their pants down beneath their butts showing off a pair of granny panties when the pants are cut to fit otherwise with the crotch dangling at their knees making them look like they crapped their pants.

Showing cleavage is a peak, shoving your pants down BELOW your ass is not. This look isn't "sagging", it's flying as half mast letting it ALL hang out. I actually rather liked the look that came before this what WAS actual sagging with just a peak of boxers showing. The all out look it became took it to a level of total absurdity.

I already find this ass out ridiculous look a bit threatening and in NO WAY would I want to see guys walking around with their junk out. That's flashing and has always been threatening to women.

[Cronus Protagonist]

59. Oh, got it. If the pants were CUT that way, it would be FINE

lol I think your slip is showing... metaphorically speaking, of course.

[LWolf]

73. Er...

I'm sorry to pass this on to you, but girls ARE sagging.

They wear boxers, a really long "wife beater," and sweatpants that they pull down below their cheeks, with the boxers and long shirt covering the cracks.

Common in our local high school, although not as prevalent as the guys. Less common in middle school, but still happens. Last year, one of my 8th grade girls got "pantsed" at recess; a big deal, but it was accidental. They were playing supposedly "tag" football, and a guy reached out and grabbed her by the pant leg as she ran by, and down they came. She wasn't wearing boxers.

He was mortified, as was she. I wasn't surprised; I kept waiting for them to fall off on their own, since the elastic waistband on the sweats had nothing to grip. Had I talked to her about it? Yes. The sweats phenomenon is convenient. The pull them up quickly when an adult is looking at them, and yank them back down when they think we aren't watching. It wasn't something our staff wanted to create World War III over, so we settled for keeping them up in class.

[Name removed]

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[salguine]

44. I live in New York City and I must confess I

shake my head in bafflement when I see these kids with their pants on the ground, pants on the ground. Looking like fools with their pants on the ground.

That being said, I've also been told by a New York City cop that the NYPD actually kind of likes these because people have a hard time running away from the cops like this.

[Warren DeMontague]

48. This is, of course, the very first time respectable adults have disapproved of youth fashions.

And thankfully, the proper channel to address it has been found; a bald, middle-aged guy in a suit, sitting in front of an American flag, on a billboard- surely, that will get today's youth to change the way they dress!

[northofdenali]

72. Gotta give you that one -

mine was fringed vests, bellbottoms with lots of embroidery, "peasant" shirts and/or skirts, and clogs. Oh, and long hair.

But my ass wasn't showing, even in hiphuggers.

(I'm on the left. He is wearing MY vest. My spouse of 35+ years. Photo in 1970, on the Copper River near Glenallen, Alaska.)

[Vinca]

49. One day I watched a skinny, blond "home boy"

dressed in the mandatory baggy pants, oversized t-shirt and backwards cap shuffle his way down Main Street. I don't know if he tripped on his regulation untied shoe laces or what, but suddenly the pants went straight to the ground. All the way. It was sooooo funny. Maybe they should consider suspenders as a fad.

[Puregonzo1188]

50. Is this trend still around? I thought it was replaced with skinny jeans (nt).

[Codeine]

55. I've actually seen people sagging skinny jeans.

Talk about a WTF?! moment.

[athenasatanjesus]

57. Gangsta rap tells kids to behave like criminals,then wear their pants in a way that hinders movement

Am I the only one that has viewed this as some sort of trap?

[jmm]

60. What next, a billboard to keep kids off his lawn?

Maybe I should use my tax return to pay for a billboard about muffin tops? I use to laugh at friends of mine growing up who wore their pants like this. I laugh even harder now that I frequently see guys with skinny jeans sagging but I'm sure he could have found a better use of $2,000 than a billboard about a style he didn't like.

[tavalon]

61. Marky Mark started this trend outside of prison

Now, he's Mark Wahlberg and we're still stuck with this stupid trend.

[demosincebirth]

62. And they wonder why they can't find a job.

[Skip Intro]

63. Don't see this nearly as much as I used to. Thankfully. Hoping the 27" rims thing is next.

[The Midway Rebel]

65. Somebody needs to clue the guys at swpl about this thread.

White folks LOVE to be hatin' on ghetto fashions.

[joe_sixpack]

66. Do we have to pretend we like it,

if it's considered "ghetto" fashion?
How about "White folk's kids love to be emulating ghetto fashions to buy them some street cred"?

[saltpoint]

67. How bold, ladies and gentlemen, how staggeringly BOLD it is to summon

the courage to speak out against the UNPARDONABLE atrocity of sagging pants.

How much did that billboard ad cost? I would have suggested that the money it took to post might have been better spent on local public schools.

[mentalsolstice]

71. Heh, the guy on the left...

has a letter in his mailbox (as we say in the south). You would think some smart clothing manufacturer would make a one piece boxers/pants combo, so that it would only appear your pants are on the ground.