Dallas unveiled a new billboard campaign on city streets this week with the slogan “Pullem’ Up!”. City Hall wants to encourage Dallas youth to “Represent Yourself The Way You Present Yourself” and to know “That’s Not Hip Hop, That’s Flip-Flop” when it comes to saggy drawers.
The bottom line: They don’t want to see yours.
One Dallas School Board member tried to get council members to pass an ordinance banning saggy pants last year. “No one should have to be subjected to someone else’s underwear publicly - that is indecent,” he said.
The initiative has stalled in Dallas but the idea is popping up in other places like Atlanta and Trenton, New Jersey. In Louisiana, one town punishes saggy pants with six months in jail or a $500 fine.
The anti-saggy pants campaign was created to improve the image of the Dallas area. Mayor Pro-Tem Dwayne Caraway believes it will help unemployment and make the area more attractive to tourists and investors.“At what point do we step up, as leaders of the city, as men, to say ‘hey fellas, let’s pull them up?’” the Mayor said. The ordinance would be enforced by Dallas police as a civil offense.
Is this a waste of time and a violation of civil liberties or just what the doctor ordered?
Originally posted @ DC Metro Moms Blog
All I have to say is I hope the ass pant craze is done and over with before my son is outta diapers, if he EVER comes home like that I just may have to give him to a grandma till he regains his senses.
BUT
At the same time if the wang and girls are covered in public, then I don’t think any city council has the right to determine how a person dresses. Like fat people in spandex, it isn’t right but it is accepted….
I dislike those pants too, but I don’t think the government has the right to tell us how to dress. It is probably just a fad and will fade…………hopefully.
I, also think this will make them want to wear them even more. We all want to make a statement and this is especially true with the younger generation.
I can’t even believe that’s still in style… It just looks dumb, but whatever.
As long as all the junk is covered up, they can sag their pants all they want. Now an ordinance about girls with thongs hanging out of their pants or not wearing undies at all… that’s a dress code worth enforcing.
I’m not sure what I really think about it. It’s hard for me to decide if I am being objective, since I generally don’t walk around with my behind hanging out of my pants - so someone saying that I can’t doesn’t bother me.
So I guess my answer is that I really don’t have a problem with it. It’s a form of indecent exposure (well more inappropriate than indecent, but I’m trying not to be picky) and there are laws regarding that, so I guess this is just sort of an addendum.
I think schools should enforce strict dress codes. Most of the blame is to the shame of the parents who allowed it when this mess started years ago.
Mixed feelings on this one. On one hand, I’d be grateful to see this style of dress disappear. It’s unattractive. But on the other hand, isn’t enforcing how people wear their clothes more fascist / totalitarian than American?
Is that even legal?
Are we seriously back to making laws about what people wear?
Can you imagine THAT jailhouse discussion. “What’re you in for man?” “Saggin’ my drawers, yo.” Nothing says I can hold my own in jail like refusing to pull up your pants for the man.
I wish they’d stop with the ‘unfashionalbe’ fashion. Underwear is not outerwear. But I also think an ordinance about it is stupid. Use existing indecency laws.
And I’m wondering about GHD’s comment. How is a girl’s thong showing any worse than a guy’s boxers? To me it’s the same. Put them both away.
I’d like to ask what the hell “flip flop” even means here. It sounds so old and lame that they are just asking for people to scoff at them. “Dude, that’s so flip flop!” WTF?
And for the record, when my thong shows on the rare occasion, it’s by accident. They hang their underwear out on purpose!
What I can’t stand is seeing the “plummers crack” on guys and girls. Many girls have very tight jeans and when they sit down - “plummers crack” and it is disgusting, worse than seeing underwear that is for sure.
I mean isn’t this “indecent exposure”?
I think all schools should have dress codes. And I think every school should have a test…
A fire drill. Give everyone something to carry (so they can’t run and pull up their pants at the same time) and if the student has to stop to pull up their pants - they have broken the dress code!
now that should wak
Oh, and I don’t think this is a city, government issue - unless you consider a “plummers crack” indecent exposure but I do think schools have the right to have dress codes — If not a lot of guys may end up burning in a fire, you just never know
Like it or not, it is a “fashion” for some to let their underwear show. Women wear low cut jeans and a thong for the same reason. When they bend over, they display their “whale tail,” as it’s called.
Now, one may not LIKE that fashion, one might find it distasteful and a sign of our pop culture gone gutter, but it is just that: a fashion. But again, it’s a fashion; wait a while, and the fashion will change.
Criminalize it? That gives me the civil libertarian creeps. Will law enforcement one day decide that my failure to wear a belt is “probably cause” for trouser droop?
Let schools impose dress codes. In public? Look the other way.
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I just can’t believe it’s still in style, it’s been going on, what? almost 15 years now?
And why is it always the “thug” types? It’s so funny when they’re running from the cops and their drawers fall even farther down and trip them up, ha-ha-ha!
I worked at a high school for 14 years. I saw more fanny’s, cleavage, belly and thigh than I ever thought possible. The school had a dress code but it was very difficult to administer. Believe it or not we were told that we were violating the students 1st amendment rights by telling them how to dress. Once that news got out I wondered what was going to stop them from wearing their bikinis and speedos to school.
Well, I have too objections to this style: first, it makes much of the youth of America disabled. They can only function with one hand because the other is held constantly poised and in reserve for checking against total fall downs. This means they are only half as productive when it comes to supporting the future of social security and that’s not good.
The second is: the origins of this style are in prison, where prisoners are not allowed to have belts and it’s called “sagging.” I think, in general, it’s not a good plan to base an entire fashion genre for our youth on prison garb.
On the other hand, surely the police have better things to do…
Really, I think not seeing someone’s undies in public is a good thing, but if they are going to enforce the policy on boys, then they need to enforce it on girls too. I’m much more offended by seeing some teen’s g-string panties than some boy’s boxers. Banning baggy pants won’t do anything to prevent girls from showing off their unders, or stop the spread of gangs. Maybe they should make a law about not showing your underpants, and get it over with. Then again, if they say ‘no baggy pants’, will the police stop everyone wearing loose pants, or will they only enforce underwear showing?
Making any new ordinance is a risk to freedom, just because some officers may improperly use the law to accost innocent folks who aren’t showing their unders, but are wearing loose clothes.
I’d really hate to give the government more authority to bother innocent people who aren’t damaging themselves or others when we can’t even stop murder and rape. We should work on the big stuff first.
Guess I’m going to have to chime in with ‘no new laws’ unless they are to protect the safety of the community. Putting out new laws in order to protect someone’s delicate sensibilities is ridiculous. Laws like this are way to close to legally enforcing morality, and that’s only a half-step from enforcing a manditory religion or faith.
I’m with you. What does flip flop mean?
i think the ad is hysterical! but what about the girls with the short skirts….
there are clothing rules within our school (and one is no undies showing, no short skirts, no spaghetti straps smaller than small)….
my thought is the droopy drawers look silly. but so did a lot of the other fashion statements over the years.