Senator Seeks Saggy Pants Ban In N.Y.C. Schools

[Jello Biafra]

New York State Senator Eric Adams is fed up with seeing male youths walking around with low slung or sagging pants that exposes their underwear. Consequently, Adams is currently lobbying for a resolution to adopt a ban against wearing droopy pants in New York City public school classrooms, reports the New York Post.

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The city’s controversial Mayor Michael Bloomberg, however, has made mention of the fact that he is not in favor of policing dress codes. Senator Adams, on the other hand, thinks that the mayor just doesn’t care to get it. ”In the society he hangs out in, they don’t sag. They laugh at people that sag. And they just say, ‘Those are the people we’ll never hire, who will never date our children.’ In the universe that he lives in, sagging is not an issue. Would he hire someone that comes in the building sagging? Would he employ them to run his corporation? Would he bring them into City Hall? It’s tolerable to him because he’s removed from that universe.”

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I must be getting old, but I agree with this.......

[Richardo]

1. "Brothers should pull up their pants." - Barack Obama, 2008

Best quote from the entire campaign IMO.

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. I agree too unless they can prove that......

They can't afford belts and they can be provided.

[TheWraith]

3. Yep, you're getting old. ;)

It may look stupid, but that's not a good enough reason for a law. Remember, your own generation no doubt did a lot of things that your elders thought looked stupid and you should stop doing too.

[RebelOne]

8. It looks more than stupid.

I have seen boys with their pants almost past their butt, exposing most of their undershorts. And I am not a prude. In my younger years, I dressed very provocatively, but at least, I did not show my underwear.

[montanacowboy]

4. He makes an interesting argument

which is hard to disagree with

I work in employment & training, on the welfare to work program, and you cannot believe how people dress and they think an employer will hire them looking like that. And it has NOTHING to do with the amount of money they have or otherwise, they just don't get it. We have to counsel them on what to wear and what is totally inappropriate. Something they should have learned long ago.

[hifiguy]

5. I am astonished that this incredibly ugly "style"

has lasted for more than ten years. By the mid-1980s those of us who wore silly shit in the 1970s had moved on, and the "kids" had their own new things.

[we can do it]

6. How Long Is the Saggy Ass Thang Going To Go On?

really, its been clown pants for about 20 years now.

[RZM]

10. I think it's been popular since the late 80s/early 90s

It comes from prison culture. It's not uncommon to be issued clothes that don't fit right and no belt. In such circumstances you've got no choice but to sag. For some reason, it eventually caught on in the streets too.

[hifiguy]

12. Wow. Take your fashion cues from prisoners.

Yeah, that's classy. Bet it's gonna work out real well when you go and apply for a job. Nothing says "I have aspirations to improve myself" like dressing as if you were in prison.

[bluestateguy]

7. While I think saggy pants are classless and stupid

I oppose school dress codes unless it can be proven that the forbidden apparel is a direct threat to good order and discipline. I don't see that here.

[LiberalFighter]

9. Why regulate school dress code?

When they could regulate outside the school. Actually, I would think neither is really possible. But if they can consider it indecent exposure that might work.

But they should encourage more pant sagging to help make it easier to catch idiotic criminals.

[Blue_Tires]

11. slippery slope, i think....The next state senator will want the girls to wear longer skirts...

and the end game always ends up being school uniforms....

[freshwest]

13. It would avoid those uh, moments similiar to being behind a plumber, etc.

And the practice of baggy pants probably deprives heavy people from buying the size clothes that would not fall off.

Just sayin'

[earthside]

14. One does have to wonder ...

I'm pretty tolerate and liberal about things like dress, hair, etc., especially in real life day-to-day.

But even I do have to wonder about saggy pants, rings in noses and lips, and tattoos on necks. (Why do people have their names put on their necks? So everyone knows who they are? Or do they have self-esteem issues?)

How do these folks hope to get a good job?
Or do they?
Especially at any kind of business that serves the general public.

[surrealAmerican]

15. I don't agree.

I think it's the dumbest looking fashion statement ever, and a potential problem in many social settings, but I don't think we need laws to enforce school dress codes.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

16. While my favorite form of addressing this issue is ridicule, the saggy pants demographic often does

not take that very well. They are after all emulating prisoners, gang members, etc.

I could get away with a lot better since I am not white, but white guy in a business suit could have a real problem if it did it in the DC Metro or a shopping mall.

[Kalidurga]

17. Well, I hate those pants...

and I don't disagree that students shouldn't wear them. But, it is kind of a silly law. We would have to have some kind of cut off as to what is too saggy. Then we could regulate how tight clothes are ect.. slippery slope I think.