Beware, beltless jeans: Your days may be numbered. New York state Senator Eric Adams is taking a stand against the sagging trousers of Brooklyn’s youth.
The politician’s tools of choice: an earnest but far from hip YouTube video. Billboards paid for with his own campaign funds. And a message he hopes will become a catch phrase for covering up: Stop the sag.
The look all started with “prison chic”—fashion that, according to the UK’s Telegraph, is inspired from inmates forced to remove belts and shoe laces while behind bars. But without a catchy song, we’re not sure the message will be heard: The campaign could have gotten a lift by making Larry Platt’s “Pants on the Ground” the anthem for the movement. The “American Idol” contestant’s song basically says everything you need to know—and went viral on the Web. (You can check out the video of Platt’s performance.)
Instead, there are billboards around Brooklyn that feature the backsides of two young men with their pants dropped below their underwear. Fashion crime? According to Adams, yes. But no actual laws have been broken. So for now, these two camps about pants will have to agree to disagree. Adams does plan to lobby the New York school superintendent about imposing a dress code that puts a cinch on the sag.
They look like they’re trying to look like cartoon characters, with no legs and huge feet.
I want a ball cap that completely rotates, 360 degrees so I can be “COOLER THAN THOU, YO!”
Thug Slaughter Force would disagree:
“codpieces”
#10 for the win …
I think we can all agree that this is George Bush’s fault and Obama will fix it.
This culture has decided to adopt the “lowest common denominator”. Even women, who pass up clean cut men in favor of scruffy, unemployed unshaven men wearing knit caps.
#5 for the win! I agree this ‘fashion’ is definitely a marker for identifying the stupid people. However, it’s not a crime and this campaign is just political posturing. I once saw a Burger King employee sporting this style. Suffice to say it made me lose my appetite.
#25 Gee, thanks for tipping my hand. Now how the hell am I gonna get any?
It seems that this pants style can only advertise one thing: the homosexual DO ME.
To those who think the state senator has better things to do: sure he has better things to do. but his constituency has chosen to waste its time, talent and resources doing dumb things. Rather than acting like a liberal snob and pretend these trends are just “OK; it will pass”, and ignore them, he’s chosen to pay attention to them and address them in a way the public can connect with. So hats off to the senator. We’re glad you give a damn.
Ah, keeerist! They’re kids. Let ‘em be. By the time they get to my age, they won’t be able to keep their pants up without a belt AND suspenders. And we can always hope the style catches on. With the ladies.
Now, let’s see … where did my ass go. It was here a couple of years ago…
These kids and their silly fashions don’t bother me nearly as much as the people who think government should regulate fashion. What a swamp of nightmares that will lead to.
I may be old but I’ve still got better things to do than criticize the young for trying to be different than the people who really fucked up this planet.
#29:
“They’re kids. Let ‘em be. By the time they get to my age”
You ever spend time in da hood? Grown men sag their shit. Looks retarded.
# 31 brm said, “You ever spend time in da hood? Grown men sag their shit. Looks retarded.”
Not in many years. Some of the places I’ve been living, men wear loincloths and ladies go topless. Other places, men wear robes and women cover from head to toe.*
If it looks retarded? Don’t look. It’s a fad and will pass. Probably faster if we ignore it.
*BTW, as a doc I’ve seen what’s under more than a few burqas and I’m almost convinced they were invented not to protect the woman’s modesty but, in a society where arranged marriages are common, so other men would not find out how ugly your wife is!
Sag = Fag. It’s obviously just an easy way for flaming homosexuals to quickly identify one another. Real men simply step on them as we walk.
It’s a way to identify the unemployable. No one wants to see your drawers.
I, personally, am delighed with hip-hop fashion.
FINALLY, there is a generation that looks even more ridiculous than we did in the 70s.
Fads, you people are complaining about fashion and fads! Worst of all most of you cranky geeks have little to no clue about either of these except for, obviously, gadget fads (iPad).
And while I’m one of those dumbasses that don’t know either I do know I shouldn’t be mouthing off and making myself look like a moran.
Thing is, crack geeks like us have seen several fads that have come and gone. This is no different. Once my nephews love showing off but as they grew older they immediately knew that doing such things won’t get you the girls
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