Of all the fashion trends that I’ve been privy to witness and even occasionally partake in, come and go throughout my entire life, there’s one that’s apparently defied the test of time, and somehow manages to exist even to this very day: sagging pants.
If you were to ask me where sagging pants seemed to originate from, I’d have said Kriss Kross. My girlfriend (I know, right?) says that sagging pants originated in prisons as indication of being a bitch to someone else. Really though, regardless of which of those are right, if either are true, the fact remains, why is it even considered cool enough to where so many people still do it to this very day?
This is one of those things that I’ll never understand, nor do I really want to understand. I will always consider a person who willingly lets their underwear-clad ass hang out while their pants are literally draped underneath their butt cheeks as a low-life and someone I probably won’t have any interest with associating with.
However, I’ve noticed something lately that’s piqued my curiosity to the point where I wish to write about. Sagging pants, at least from what I witness in my life, have always been guys wearing their normal sized pants, just sagged down, to where the bottoms are closer to the back of their knees, instead of their actual asses. If they were to ever pull their pants up to where the tops sat around their waists, or even hips, the pants as a whole would look somewhat normal, possibly well-fitting.
Lately though, I’ve seen lots of guys wearing, sagging rather, pants that, don’t really look like they’re meant to be worn like real pants, if they were pulled up. Like, if they spontaneously grew up and decided that at that very moment, they wanted to pull their pants into a more socially acceptable fashion, they couldn’t. Or rather, they could, but then it would look like they were wearing capris, which on a guy would look pretty fruity.
Really though, I’m seeing pretty often now, guys sagging pants that don’t look like there’s enough actual pant to where they’re actually pants when worn correctly. It’s weird, because it’s like sagging pants and skinny capris at the same time, and it just looks really silly.
So either people are deliberately buying pants too small/short for them with the intent to sag them to get appropriate ankle coverage, or there’s a manufacturer out there that’s making pants that are meant to be sagged.
Either way, I still wish upon a star every time I see one that the sagging pants style dies. Unfortunately, I don’t think I should be holding my breath on this one, though.
