06/09/2021
SAGGING PANTS
While the exact origin and rationale of wearing sagging pants is debated, it is believed that the trend began in the late 1980s in United States prisons, particularly in the Los Angeles area . Belts were often prohibited and due to lack of appropriate-sized clothing, prisoners started wearing their pants very low. It was popularized though in the 1990s by hip hop artists and skaters and became a symbol of freedom and rejection of values of mainstream society among the youth.