Topic : 01/28 The Baggy Pants Debate

I think it is very wrong for the government or anyone to interfer with what a person wears!!!

I have a 10 year old son that went through a short time where he was wearing his jeans way low with his boxers showing.  He was wearing his older brothers clothes so that he could have "the look".  I did not like it and my biggest fear was that his pants would fall down in the middle of school and he would be embarrassed.  I knew it was just a temporary fashion statement.  What people need to remember is not to be so judgemental.  Kids are going though so much and so much peer pressure now a days.  I think wearing their pants this was is just kids trying to fit in somewhere.  They are trying to fit into a fashion statement.  Wether or not it is a good look or not. Needless to say my son went to rock climbing camp and wore his baggy jeans with his boxers showing.  I told him that morning that I wouldn't recommend him wearing them to rock clibming camp.  Of course he did.  Well,  guess what story I hear when I picked him up?  You got it!  His pants fell down at camp.  I think that was one of the last times he wore his pants that way because he got embarrassed.  I totally agree there are way more important things the government needs to worry about then what people wear.  WHO CARES!!!  It is up to each individual to decide how they want to dress.  We have freedom of speech but not freedom of dress?  How silly is that.  My son choose not to continue wearing his pants so big because he realized cool wasn't that cool when your pantsf all down.  :)

When I was a teenager mini skirts were all the rage and if the little old ladies made the laws they would have locked me up without a key! And let’s not even discuss what midriffs did to the older generation. Now I find it totally offensive whether I’m in a church, movie, or other public place to see someone’s pants below their thong exposing their whole entire behind (not boxers). I just don’t think exposing your buttocks would have been fashionable to me no matter what my age.  But should it be illegal? Once this is a finable offense where does it stop? Who decides what YOU should wear in a free society?  Personally I feel we really have more important issues facing us, don’t you?

It might not be up to the goverment to get invovled but someone needs to. It not a black thing or a white thing it's an every race thing, it has nothing to do with race its the generation that were in and the parents giving there children free will to express themselves. I know regardless how they want to express themselves the people around them should not have to share there expression with them. Nothing about it looks cool and all it does is make you a stereotype hoodleem that is not going to amount  to anything. It doesn't matter how smart you are or goals in live the first impression says it all to anyone in business.

PULL UP YOUR PANTS.......................

 I don't necessarily think the pants themselves should be banned, as long as they adhere to nudity codes. 

As long as you literally cover your butt, I don't think you should be fined.  I don't like them, think there juvenile and stupid, but people have a right to their stupidity. 

It is not up to the government to tell anyone how they can and cannot dress.  If we say it's ok to ban sagging pants, what happens when they try to ban low rise jeans or mini skirts?  How we dress is a form of self expression.  Now, do I like sagging pants? No.  Do I allow my son to wear his pants that way?  No.  But, that's my child, I can tell him how to dress.  I can't tell the rest of the world the same thing. 

As for blaming the media, DON'T!  It is up to parents to raise their kids.  If you don't like what's they're  watching on tv, block it.  If you don't like what they're listening to, turn it off.  We cannot put the responsibilty of raising our kids off on everybody else.  It is up to us to teach our children what is acceptable and what is not.