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Thursday, September 6, 2012

SAGGERMANIA...



Sagging is a manner of wearing trousers (slacks, shorts, pants or jeans) below the waist, sometimes below the level of the buttocks, with one’s boxer shorts showing, revealing much of the underwear. Sagging is predominantly a male fashion.

An individual that participates in the practice of sagging may be referred to as a sagger.

The origin of this originally young, urban, black style is unknown. A commonly accepted origin theory was that it was an outgrowth of prison, where inmates clothing were often too large and sometimes no belts were allowed.  According to Greg Mathis, sagging was adopted from the United States prison system where belts are prohibited to keep prisoners from using them as weapons or in committing suicide by hanging themselves.

There is also some evidence that a male showing his underwear-covered buttocks in prison was, at one point, linked to a desire for sex, or a mark that a prisoner was ownedby another prisoner, sexually.

The style was later popularized by hip-hop artists in the 1990s. It has since become a symbol of freedom and cultural awareness among some youths or a symbol of their rejection of the values of mainstream society.

I am agree with Will Welch, that , in his Manifesto, at GQ magazine of September 2012, titled: If I See One More Ass, I'm Gonna Crack!, said: You know, It's interesting: Several American hamlets have made headlines for proposing borderline unconstitutional (and racist) laws against young black men sagging their jeans. Yet you never see the butt cracks of these kids in their skinny skateboarder denim- just a whole lot of boxer brief. It can be shocking, sure, but it's never indecent, and most important it's intentional, which is the difference between provocative and embarrassing.

If you want to see the essence of sagger boys, in New York, you have to go to the West Indian parade in Brooklying, at the Labor Day, to see the sexiest boys, sagging in this parade.




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