Saggy Baggy!!!

http://www.lilith-ezine.com/articles/fashion/Jeans-Pants-and-Trousers.html
http://headmasterz.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/saggy-jeans-are-a-menace-to-society/
http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/?p=1332

It was my first day at Georgia State University, in the plaza place. It was empty except of some staff. I was sitting in front of the general classrooms watching the buildings of the university and picking acquantance to the place. Suddenly, I turned my face with a shocking scream. The guy was in hurry and his pants almost down his knees!!! Then, on the first day of the session, at the cafeteria of the university, I even saw girls in low-off jeans. Oh my Gush!! Why people are not ashamed of showing their underwears? It is the phenomenon of saggy or baggy jeans! While some people view it like a freedom of expression, others see it like a fashion, and for the African-American community, it becomes a cultural characteristic. Therefore, when a law was passed, in Atlanta, banning the exposure of undergarments basically in public places, many people took it for “a racial profiling” said Benetta Sandly of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.

It sounds extremely strange to associate saggy jeans banning with racism or freedom of expression. Indeed, not only black but also a lot of white teens wear their pants this way. Moreover, it is not a real daring libertine behavior to show up in the job office, at school, or in some public places with your underwears exposed to everybody?! Additionally, what culture one may talk about if is commonly known that the origins of baggy pants refer back to the U.S.A jail system, when prisoners were obliged to take off their belts?!

In light of this analysis I would join my voice to Atlanata’s counciller when he compared the phenomenon to an “epidemic” that should be banned from the learning institutions and job places. I would not agree with some people who suggest to treat saggy or baggy jeans like a crime and to panelize those who endorse it with jail. However, it is important to pass some rules and disciplines in job places and schools to forbid this way of dressing. I also think that there would be no exaggeration to consider low-legged jeans a kind of violation of the dignity and the respect of the schools and the job administrations. Though every one is free to dress the way he wants, he should bear in mind that not all the society where he or she lives agree to see his backside. To say it differently, everyone should be aware that his freedom stops when the freedom of the other starts. I would not consider the people who bolster the fashion of exposing underwears law -biding, yet, saggy jeans should not be allowed everywhere. To wrap up, baggy jeans are sometimes good sometimes bad but there must be sufficient awareness of that.