Beware, beltless jeans: Your days may be numbered. New York state Senator Eric Adams is taking a stand against the sagging trousers of Brooklyn’s youth.
The politician’s tools of choice: an earnest but far from hip YouTube video. Billboards paid for with his own campaign funds. And a message he hopes will become a catch phrase for covering up: Stop the sag.
The look all started with “prison chic”—fashion that, according to the UK’s Telegraph, is inspired from inmates forced to remove belts and shoe laces while behind bars. But without a catchy song, we’re not sure the message will be heard: The campaign could have gotten a lift by making Larry Platt’s “Pants on the Ground” the anthem for the movement. The “American Idol” contestant’s song basically says everything you need to know—and went viral on the Web. (You can check out the video of Platt’s performance.)
Instead, there are billboards around Brooklyn that feature the backsides of two young men with their pants dropped below their underwear. Fashion crime? According to Adams, yes. But no actual laws have been broken. So for now, these two camps about pants will have to agree to disagree. Adams does plan to lobby the New York school superintendent about imposing a dress code that puts a cinch on the sag.
Yes, let’s help these people find belts or suspenders.Or maybe just a pair of properly fitting pants!! I don’t think they realize how stupid they look.
Bad fashion has existed in every decade. It will pass.
Fashion: irritating your parents, one garb at a time.
Leave the kiddies alone.
The worst is homosexual men who like to show off their ass crack (especially in the early morning).
I actually appreciate the sag… It helps identify the stupid rather quickly.
How can you get away from the cops with your frakkin pants around your knees?
I’ve seen my mom’s high school yearbooks from the ’80s so anyone who thinks looking “stupid” for fashion’s sake is something new is just old and myopic.
Good to to see our elected officials deal with the things that are truly a problem for society like poverty, crime, affordable health care…and sagging pants!?
This senator just proved he’s more of an idiot than these “saggy” pants crowd.
#7 Please list the geniuses with pants hanging below their asses.
Are low riders any sillier looking than 16th century frilled collars and codpieces?
What a sexist!
Insisting all these young men raise their pants. But does he suggest even one young woman should lift her skirts?
Just like a body covered with tattoos or piercings (or both), just indicative of mind-less youngsters following “Fashion” !!!
I thought this was a trademark of the knee-grow?
Those of you defending this don’t realize this is prison fashion. The hip hop black idiots seem to idolize this lifestyle, and every one of them dreams of the day they can go to jail. So let them be. And soon, they will be either dead, or in jail. Incidentally, the reason for this fashion is the “bitches” in prison are required to have their assholes available to all the butt fuckers.
One of these morons was shot dead by police in Richmond a few months back, when fleeing. He had to reach for his pants to pull them up, and the cop thought he was reaching for his weapon which he had left in the car he was running from. One dead dumbshit. Yea!
Seems about as dumb as the tight jeans on guys.
#16 – You sound fat.
Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, Looking like a fool with your pants on the ground. Hat turned sideways………..Lookin like a asshat with your pants on the ground!!
Some politician is telling me to change the way I dress. He just wants support from everybody else who wants me to change the way I dress. They can all kiss my ass.
I am old, and I want these whippersnappers off my lawn, get a hair cut, pull up your pants, and get a job! The bums will always loose!
They look like they’re trying to look like cartoon characters, with no legs and huge feet.
I want a ball cap that completely rotates, 360 degrees so I can be “COOLER THAN THOU, YO!”
Thug Slaughter Force would disagree:
“codpieces”
#10 for the win …
I think we can all agree that this is George Bush’s fault and Obama will fix it.
This culture has decided to adopt the “lowest common denominator”. Even women, who pass up clean cut men in favor of scruffy, unemployed unshaven men wearing knit caps.
#5 for the win! I agree this ‘fashion’ is definitely a marker for identifying the stupid people. However, it’s not a crime and this campaign is just political posturing. I once saw a Burger King employee sporting this style. Suffice to say it made me lose my appetite.
#25 Gee, thanks for tipping my hand. Now how the hell am I gonna get any?
It seems that this pants style can only advertise one thing: the homosexual DO ME.
To those who think the state senator has better things to do: sure he has better things to do. but his constituency has chosen to waste its time, talent and resources doing dumb things. Rather than acting like a liberal snob and pretend these trends are just “OK; it will pass”, and ignore them, he’s chosen to pay attention to them and address them in a way the public can connect with. So hats off to the senator. We’re glad you give a damn.
Ah, keeerist! They’re kids. Let ’em be. By the time they get to my age, they won’t be able to keep their pants up without a belt AND suspenders. And we can always hope the style catches on. With the ladies.
Now, let’s see … where did my ass go. It was here a couple of years ago…
These kids and their silly fashions don’t bother me nearly as much as the people who think government should regulate fashion. What a swamp of nightmares that will lead to.
I may be old but I’ve still got better things to do than criticize the young for trying to be different than the people who really fucked up this planet.