Pull Up Your Pants Day

Who cares where it comes from. Who cares how stupid their styles look. Someone once told me I shouldn't use the word "sucks", because it originates from soliders in WW2 forcing Japanese POWs to blow them.

Diana Carter and Dona McKenzie, maybe you should try educating your students on topics that actually matter, instead of trying to alienate them by engaging in a pointless fashion war. You suck.

I just don't understand how the low pants thing even works. Are the pants somehow attached to the bottom hem of the underwear? Is there glue involved? It's most confusing on skinny guys with no butts to hold anything up... why do they not fall completely off?
Perhaps instead of outlawing it we could ask these younguns to explain the physics of it, coefficient of friction, static electricity, ionic bonds, whatever.

loqi: you're part of the problem. Why should we bother having ANY standards in society?

Good idea, they look like morons, but not just any morons, but proud morons. I remember this one wigger I saw in a shopping center the other day, he was walking around all tough with his low hanging pants and then they suddenly dropped. It was funny as hell to see the guy pull up his pants and run away ashamed.

I can't believe this is still an issue. I'm about to hit 30 and this has kept popping up in the "news" since I was at least 15. Aren't people used to it by now.

I hope I don't end up out of touch when I'm older.

OMG this is so sexy, I want to have babies with saggy butt Jean guys!!

No... wait, Nope i don't.Neither do any of my friends. In fact, every girl I know hates that crap.

Food for thought.

Of course it looks stupid. If looking stupid were a crime, I would have spent most of my teens in prison.

qoli: Of course society should have standards. But this particular standard is arbitrary and stupid.

Kids have wearing their pants like this for ten or fifteen years; you know why this fashion has stuck around so much longer than, for example, parachute pants? Because it still shocks people. As soon as people stop getting their panties in a twist about it, kids will stop doing it.

Also, someone should tell those teachers that the fashion's origins in jail are going to make kids like it more, not less. Weren't these people ever kids themselves?

"Someone once told me I shouldn’t use the word 'sucks', because it originates from soliders in WW2 forcing Japanese POWs to blow them."

I'd just like to suggest to whomever told you that to research the word's etymology a little deeper than sixth-grade hearsay.

Next on the list: world hunger.

I'll second Wesley's statement.

What most of these kids, and apparently many adults, don't realize is that to wear one's pants slung low in a prison means that you are free meat. It is how the feminine segment of that population identify themselves. A friend that has been "up state" a couple of times said it was the funniest thing to watch the new punks coming in with their drawers showing, trying to act bad, only to enter the unit and get met with catcalls and "propositions". The smart ones pulled up their pants as soon as they were in their cell. Bangers and B-Boys have always been about baggy, not necessarily saggy.

It makes me think about all of those homophobic boys in the 70s listening to Queen, Elton John, Judas Priest and being completely oblivious that they were enjoying a culture that they were actually afraid of.

If there is a school dress code enforce it. If not, get over it.

Who cares how other people choose to dress, eat, live.

i wouldn't care if a kid chooses to look like an idiot, i'm sure he's gonna feel like one when he's older.

NOT NEWS WORTHY!!!

"The young men need to be educated based upon where it originated from, which it came from our prisons,"

Ill fix that statement to this:
"The young men need to be LIED TO ABOUT where it originated from, which it came from our prisons,"

When I was in high school all the "skater" kids wore pants with obnoxiously wide pant legs, now they're all wearing uber-tight pants that are just as obnoxious. Give the butt-hanging-out-saggy-pants fad another five years and it will be replaced by another (just as annoying) fashion trend for everyone to complain about. I hear codpieces are on their way back....

Ha ha Rudy, I remember the 'pants low' thing amongst youth/young adults back in the early 90's. I was hoping the 'gangsta/thug' phenomenon would be over by now, but sadly it's even more popular these days. It looks utterly stupid and without class.

This is so stupid. Seriously. I will be the first person to say that this is one of the worst fashions ever conceived, but the big deal that people make out of it is as ridiculous as Ed Sullivan filming Elvis from the waist up only. People outgrow these trends, which is why they are called "trends", and if they don't, they end up looking like the relics (see Bret Michaels)that they are. Something else shocking more stupid looking will eventually replace it.

The goofiest look of all is when a guy's pants are so baggy that he has to devote one hand to continuously hold up his pants. When it gets to the point to where you no longer have free use of both of your hands, it's time to wear tighter pants.

Honestly, I am more concerned with the teacher's sentence structure.

"The young men need to be educated based upon where it originated from, which it came from our prisons,"

Yikes!

I can't stand this kind of attitude. It's just a trend, they come and go. Unless it's hurting someone, who cares? You'd think an educator would know better.

What a boring world it would be if everyone dressed the same.

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Alls I know is that if one of these fellas came to me looking for a job looking like that, I'd laugh in his face. Enjoy tha thug life fellas, cause it'll be over soon and you'll be cleaning my pee off the toilets at Taco Bell for minumum wage. Word!

"I can’t believe this is still an issue. I’m about to hit 30 and this has kept popping up in the “news” since I was at least 15. Aren’t people used to it by now."

THIS!

Also, Alloy A, not true. Do your research.
http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp

This crackdown on low pants seems a bit cheeky.

This sounds like our parents (and their parents, and so on). I have a 4 year old. Concerning his future, the ONLY thing I know for sure is that I won't like the way he dresses (probably will hate his hair style too).

Sunny Lea,

I doubt Snopes spent 3 felony sentences in the Ohio State Correctional system. In this case I'll take my friend's knowledge gained from several years experience over a stranger with an OK website. So research away, I'll stick to talking to "experts." BTW, I know dozens of ex-felons (job related), but only one of them I trust enough to call friend and he has never lied to me (and it took several years of me trying to trip him up before I realized he was "real" with me). You pick your source, and I'll stick with the first hand accounts.

AA

Just another trend that later their kids will make fun of them for. This whole urban thing is just about played out (had a surprisingly long life, though). Let them do it, but not in a school.

Re:"The young men need to be educated based upon where it originated from, which it came from our prisons," McKenzie said. "They need to be aware of how they’re looking when they’re out and walking around..."
A TEACHER talks like this? Horrifying.

Gail Pink: What should she have said then? Are you in the trenches with these students on a daily basis? You obviously are so smart that you don't understand what she was trying to say!

The whole homosexual thing is just someone's way of tyring to shame their homophobic little minds into pulling their pants up. The fascination with (and fear of) anal sex is part of all stodgy cultures the world over.

Snopes knows a helluva lot, Alloy A. Maybe your prisoner friends believe in the droopy pants signal because it became that as a result of the urban legend.

I really can't understand why a gay guy would want to be raped in prison any more than a straight woman would want to be raped in prison.

If they really want to end the coolness of the trend, teachers and other authority figures should swallow their pride and start dressing that way themselves. Instant death of coolness.

the people who are enforcing this should find something better to do, and get their facts straight. baggy pants originated in the ghetto, when kid brothers would get hand-me-down clothes from their older brothers. they would get pants that are baggy and they would have to grow into them. if you're brother is a couple of years older than you you'd get huge pants, and not even a belt could keep them up.

besides, i wear my pants low all the time - not retarded wigga low, just low - and it feels way more comfortable than having a beer belly chocked by a belt.

OK, I'm not a teenage kid. I'm 42 years old, and I wear my pants down low about halfway down on my butt. I can't help it. I keep pulling my pants up, but they keep sliding back down again. I am morbidly obese, being apple-shaped, meaning I have mostly upper-body fat. I'm 6 feet 2 inches tall and I weigh about 750 pounds. I measure about 72 inches around my chest, 98 inches around my belly, but I have a relatively small butt, measuring only 54 inches around my hips. I'm only 28 inches around my thighs and my upper arms are 36 inches around. Yeah! My upper arms are actually bigger around than my thighs! My love-handles are obviously much wider than my hips, and even hang down over my hips. I have a big roll of fat on my lower back that protrudes out further than my butt. My belly hangs down over my belt, down over the front of my pants and halfway down my thighs. I can't find shirts large enough to cover my belly, so I go around out in public showing off my bellybutton and butt-crack! I can't help it. Should I be busted because I go around with my bellybutton and butt-crack showing? HELL NO! That would be discrimination against us fat people. Sorry about that! OK?

Oh, by the way, I would also like to mention an incident that happened to me at a public beach. I was wearing no shirt and I was barefoot. As I was walking along the beach, the lifeguard approached me, and told me that it was not a nude beach and that if I didn't put on some shorts, he would have me arrested for indecent exposure. But I was in fact wearing shorts, so I turned around to show him. From the front I looked like I had nothing on, because, as I had mentioned previously, I'm morbidly obese, and I have a huge round low hanging belly. Because my belly hung down over the front of my shorts and down over my thighs almost halfway to my knees, I looked like I had nothing on! but when I turned around, the lifeguard could see that I was indeed wearing shorts. Of course, my shorts were halfway down on my butt revealing my butt-crack, but I can't help that. I have a massive upper-body with a low hanging belly so I just can't keep my pants from sliding down on my butt. Well, the lifeguard didn't bother me anymore, but you should have seen the look on his face! I still laugh when I think about it. About a week later, I returned to the beach, but this time, instead of wearing shorts, I wore a speedo. I figured, HELL, why not! There was no rules against speedos on the beach, so I felt that despite being obese, I also had a right to wear one too. I'm not going to hide in my home just because I'm super morbidly obese. I believe that I should have the same legal rights and anybody else here in the USA. I can't help it if my pants or shorts slide halfway down on my butt. I can't help it if I can't find shirts big enough to cover my belly. When your love-handles hang down over your hips, and your belly hangs down over your thighs almost halfway to your knees, there is no way to keep your pants from sliding down on your butt. I have tried losing weight a few times but my belly still sags down low, and I can't afford the surgery to have the excess skin removes, and I do not wish to subject myself to such a painful procedure and have such nasty looking scars. So I gave up trying to lose weight. Yeah, I weigh 750 pounds, but I really don't mind. In fact, I'm perfectly happy being fat, so I'm going to enjoy life as much as I can. Besides, I actually like going out in public showing off my bellybutton and butt-crack and mooning the world around me.

hey ppl can i just say 1 thing...everyone on here needs to read up on their history because wearing your pants low actually originated many many years ago when black ppl used to be slaves. Their white owners would sexually abuse them and so as an act of defiance they used to walk around with their pants already down as if to say well just go ahead and do it to show that it di'dnt have an affect on them anymore. However there is no point talking about the origins of a modern day trend when very few people know the actual origins of it anyway. The fact of the matter is is that everyone should just mind their own business and if people want to wear their pants low then let them that's the beauty of being free, we can all choose to dress how we want.
p.s i know i've dragged on abit already but one last thing to say to ('Non'- food for thought) who cares what you think or your friends do you know everygirl in the world? no i dont think so so when you try using yourselves as a means of stopping people dressing however they want then you need to remind yourself that what you think is only an opinion don't try to pass it off as a representation of all women.

and just so you know i wear my pants 'low' to a certain extent because i find it uncomfortable wearing them full height.

hahaha and sorry one last thing. 'Apple shaped obese male' i have to say you have my respect and even thoiugh you wrote a long arse article it was pretty funny :-p you have changed my perception of 'obese' people well done!(really)

What no one seems to realize is that, yes, sagging jeans ARE a prison look; but what no one tells the individuals that are rocking this look is that it is the look of the "prison bitch."

Yes, there should be a dress code. The dress code is that you should be WEARING pants. (Unless you chose to wear a skirt.)

If the waist line falls below your butt checks, you aren't wearing pants. They are pulled down and that is indecent exposure.

It's pretty simple.

A funny aside: we saw some boy wearing his long shorts like this and my 5 year old daughter said, "Mommy, why is that boy wearing a skirt". I couldn't stop laughing. Even she can see how stupid they look.