All the young people were wearing skinny jeans. Then, just as we had given up, we came across four young men in various states of sag walking with a young woman near a park.
We soon discovered that even within this group of holdouts, there was little swag to their sag; they admitted they don't dare sag like they used to. Jordan Farmer, 18, wore modestly sagging green jeans that showed just a hint of his undergarment. He's a wiry young man with a small earring in his left ear, a goatee and a calm, almost professorial, manner. Farmer said he tries not to be "disrespectful" with his sagging.
When asked for an example, he said, "Too low is when you have your butt out and you're showing your underwear. His friend, Durunta Floyd, 18, also said a sagger must be circumspect. His jeans were sagging a tad lower than his waist.
Like a lot of saggers, Floyd deliberately sags his pants so his underwear is visible. That's part of the purpose of the sag -- to show off one's colorful underwear. He said he's aware of how some perceive him as he walks down the street. I'm a criminal. They think a lot of things. But I don't let that phase me," Floyd said. He shrugged before patting his hair to make sure it looked good for the camera. From sag to high fashion. Both Farmer and Floyd said they started sagging to imitate the way their favorite rappers dressed in videos.
But today's hip-hop stars no longer sag, and that's the primary reason sagging has gone out of style, fashion experts say. Rapper Lil Yachty embodies the abandonment of sagging jeans. Sloppy, baggy streetwear no longer fits the aesthetic of the contemporary hip-hop world, where rappers now team up with high-end fashion brands, said Smith-Strickland, the fashion writer. She gave some examples:. Rapper Lil Yachty this year was named a creative designer for the Nautica clothing line.
And rapper Pharrell Williams designed a jewelry line for Louis Vuitton, another French fashion house. Today's hip-hop stars aren't going to be caught on the red carpet in jeans sagging around their butt, Smith-Strickland said. Another group of celebrities also gets credit for stopping the sag: NBA superstars.
Some trace that change to Critics at the time called the move "racist" and said it was aimed at then-NBA star Allen Iverson, a notorious sagger. Today's NBA stars, though, are fashionistas.
A recent Rolling Stone article described how it's common for NBA players to wear spectacles, cardigans and pink blazers.
I don't think it's fair. But I'm not optimistic about it changing. All of us draw conclusions about people we don't know based on what we see. It turns into a problem when we outwardly discriminate based on that alone. Thompson said that he's been in elevators with women, particularly some white women, who have clutched their purses closer because they felt threatened.
He doesn't expect them to know that in grade school he was always in gifted or accelerated classes, or that his father is a doctor and mother is a nurse.
The images of young black men are so overwhelmingly negative that it's hard to get the benefit of the doubt. He said that when he was younger such prejudices made him angry. He was really busting a major sag. This is seen as a "cool" way to wear pants, as seen by the number of rappers, skaters , rock stars, etc. Usually a belt is not worn to reinforce sagging. I was walking down the street , and my pants were sagging, so i had to pull them up every 3 seconds. Wearing your pants in such a way that you shit your pant for a month and no one would know exept for the smell.
The resulting bloated backside would be similar that of a ghetto booty or bubble. Be a man pull up your pants! It also happens to the name given to some rather hot video clips posted on the net. Try tube surfing to find it. I watch sagging online - to get myself off. The way I've heard it is that sagging was a way for guys in prison to show that they had a gang behind them, or that they were in charge of a large group of inmates.
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