Saggin Pants

I recently noticed a group on Facebook called "PULL UP YOUR PANTS YOU LOOK LIKE A FUCKKING IDIOT!!" I just had to take a look and of course contribute a couple of photos. I have to admit that I believe this trend in fashion has been an eye sore for myself and many others.

I suppose to properly look into a subject we must start with history.

According to the Urban Dictionary, when I looked up the word saggin:

1. saggin

I've heard the jail term..but instead of having a gang behind them, Iheard that it was because in jail, the inmates aren't given belts, and they pant size isn't always considered when they're given their uniforms...it's moved outside of jails, into hip hop, but they're emulating inmates, and it spells "niggas" backwards, rather derogatory and nothing the kids should aspire to be. His pants are saggin like an inmates
1. saggin' and baggin' 
 To wear your pants down so low that your undergarments are visible
2) Used in prisons usually to symbolize availability or as an invitation to get it in the ass from a fellow inmate.
BILLY: Did you see Jack saggin' and baggin'?  JOE: Yeah, i'd tap that.

According to Wikipedia
Origin
The origins of sagging come from the United States prison system due to three primary factors. First, uniforms issued to prisoners are usually a few sizes too large. Secondly, belts are prohibited to avoid suicide by hanging oneself, or to avoid being used as a weapon in fights. The style was later popularized by hip-hop artists in the 1990s.
The facts behind the saggin' pants craze
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_18_111/ai_n19206250/
Jet, May 7, 2007 by Margena A. Christian
There was a time when having your underwear exposed might have caused great embarrassment. Today people show their underwear on purpose and with pride because it's deemed fashionable. And it's called saggin', wearing pants below the waist so that underwear is in full view.

The fashion actually transitioned from prison culture, said author-youth advocate Judge Greg Mathis of the "Judge Mathis" show.
"In prison you aren't allowed to wear belts to prevent self-hanging or the hanging of others," said Mathis, who at 17 once served eight months in jail. "They take the belt and sometimes your pants hang down. The same with no shoestrings in your shoes. You aren't allowed to have shoestrings. Many cultures of the prison have overflowed into the community unfortunately."
Saggin' also has sexual connotations in prison.
"Those who pulled their pants down the lowest and showed their behind a little more raw, that was an invitation," said Mathis. "[The youth] don't know this part about it. I always tease and tell them that they better be careful because some man who has been in prison 30 years who comes home and doesn't know any different may think it's an open invitation."
Pastor Dianne Robinson of Jacksonville, FL, is a crusader against the saggin' look. "I think it is a very disrespectful act," she said. "Sometimes they have on two and three pairs of underwear and most of the time it's not clean."

~~~Okay, so what we're looking at is a trend started in prisons because men had no belts. Their pants sagged down. How did this become a fashion statement? Why do young men of all races, for I see it in my little white country town, think this is cool?  I have to admit, I have seen a few times when this fashion trend actually looked good on a man. But, it's far and few between.
I see there are now laws against sagging pants. Thank God someone is trying to put an end to this asinine fashion faux pas.
http://www.spikedhumor.com/Article.aspx?id=93649
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/laughlines/crack.jpg has a cool pic that I am showing here.

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Seriously people, lets pull those pants up, cover those butt cracks and let your underwear be worn under your pants. If you have to hold up your pants when you have a belt on, you're just doing something wrong! We don't want to see your tighty whities or those plaid boxers.  I actually saw someone with their pants saggin in the Family Fare parking lot. He was putting his groceries in the trunk when his pants fell to the ground. Underneath were poop stained Fruit of the Looms. Now that image is forever burnt in my rain! Please people..... PULL EM UP! We have enough problems with construction workers!