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 “owned” by 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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