Atlanta Lawmakers Weigh Baggy Clothing Ban
It has long been known that many people have done this for many years and I remember when I was first growing up and I got my first pair of stone washed, Levis denim. They fit fairly snug, because that was the style in the 70s when my mom was a kid, and when I first wore them to school I was mortified to learn that I should have been doing it the baggy style all the way! Pants just kept getting lower and lower; starting, in my mind at MC Hammer moving on to Kris Kross and all the way to today, where it's sort of a homogenous thing and there are athletes and there are musicians and there are actors who all are out in full force with this baggy pants style.
But honestly aren't today's musicians and rap stars not doing it that way anymore anyway? I mean, look at Puffy (or P. Diddy or Sean or whatever his name is) he's got a full line of very stylish clothes that are not really that baggy at all. I thought the today's superstars were all wearing very tight clothes and very short clothes and sometimes no clothes a la Lil' Kim, Shakira, Britney, Lindsay, Paris, etc? I thought we were all over it.
Apparently not as this afternoon an Atlanta lawmaker is trying to get the way you dress turned into a fine. Leave it to the ACLU to step in and in this case rightly so. This is really not a question that can be answered across the board; it's all a matter of style. And unless you're going to go onto TLC's What Not To Wear or something like that, you can't be told how to dress, right?
The sensibilities in the deep South may be more conducive to something like this and while people may be able to police an area, Councilman CT Martin and his proposed law against the "epidemic" of young men with low riding pants seems a little bit past the point of being relevant. I just don't think that going ahead and ticketing are resting every person on the boardwalk who has got a bit of a sag going on in their pants is a legitimate or likely solution to the problem.
In fact, I don't even really think it is a problem. While Councilman Martin would disagree saying "Little children see it and want to adopt it, thinking it's the thing." My response to that is so what? Who cares what kids want to dress like? Kids will dress like kids and they will reach a point in their lives when they realize that they look like idiots and they will grow up and get some real clothes. Or they won't! But you can't tell people how to dress or just lump it in with the other Georgia State laws which outlaw sex in public and exposure or fondling intimate parts of the body. That is something that needs to be policed and needs to be looked after and if people are going to behave like animals in public than they should be subject to animal law and if there are hunters in place when they are behaving like animals then they should be shot.
But just because of the way you dress this does not really typify a law which can be enforced with any kind of consistency...Right?
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8 Comments
Post a CommentClothes that are baggy okay. If your underwear stick out a little above the waist ok. It is when you wear your pants below your cheeks and your belt below the hips I have some reservations about. Just think of the laughs you will get when you are in your 60s looking at the pics of how you dressed. We can't enfoce dress codes on the street withoug going to public uniforms. Even then individualism will adjust the attire. Some too tight, some not tight enough. Give the clothes issue a break. If it is indecent, take em to jail, don't need a new ordinance. I find suits to be appalling, I don't see any loaws against them.
Ima sag til i die, so those of you who wear there clothes all genieric can kiss my a$$
I dont like the showing of underwear by boys or girls (thongs) but, I am not so sure making it against the law is the right path.
I certainly have never been a fan of those who wore their pants so low their underwear showed, I hardly find a need for a law against it. Why not laws against girls who walk around with their thongs sticking out, that is truly disgusting. Or men who go without shirts, their nipples show, oh no! Maybe a law doing away with the showing of the belly button, it could be deemed sexual by some! Theres always those select few girls who walk around with sheer shirts and you can see everything they own too! Lets all start dressing in sheets so no one has to be forced to turn their head to avoid looking at anything.
I am really tired of the baggy pants with underwear showing look. It's been around for far too long. It started back when I was young enough to still be somewhat cool and I may have even thought it was somewhat cool (I'm not admitting to that). Now, I'm too old to be cool and it's still around! I'd think the kids of today could be a little more creative! As sick as I am of seeing teenagers underwear, it is just crazy that lawmakers want to outlaw the look.
Great article. I agree with Lisa S. about it - what happened to merely looking the other way? Before you know it people will try to make laws against everything from kissing in public to 'shoes not tied properly'. Keep law out of fashion, unless it's so crude that people are appalled.
Keep the fashion police out of Atlanta!
Great article! I totally agree. While I may not find the whole "baggy" clothing thing fashionable myself, what ever happened to just looking the other way? People should definitely have the right to dress the way they want. Everytime I here about things like this, I can't help but think to myself that we are getting closer and closer to a communisim type state.