Sagging (fashion)

Baggy Pants (English baggy " baggy ", " baggy " pants and " pants" ) or often Saggy Pants (german saggy " absinkend ", " drooping " ) are particularly baggy pants whose waistband is usually carried far below the hip. Accordingly, we call this type to wear pants, as sagging.

Origin

The pants came in the 1990s in the hip- hop culture in fashion. They should go back to a practice in U.S. prisons, is taken at the new prisoners as the first of the belt. With the belts, the detainees could hang or unsubscribe brawls. Thus, the pants slide deeper. Even easier access during raids is considered as the origin. Released prisoners then also wore their pants outside the prison in this way, so that the wear collection in the culture of gangsta rap was because such a harsh image could be shown. By far the larger pockets also went back to the U.S. prisons, as there easily transported tool for everyday work and could be stored for a short time.

Later, the fashion became popular in other areas, such as the skateboarding and snowboarding scene.

Ban

In Delcambre, Louisiana, as well as in Riviera Beach, Florida, the public wearing of baggy pants is prohibited under penalty. Against the ban in Riviera Beach has been appealed and is intended to violate the Constitution of the United States, in particular against the 14th Amendment, which put the self-determination and personal freedom of citizens under special protection.

Others

The 504th U.S. Parachute Regiment took part in the January 22, 1944 in the attack on Anzio part. In this operation, they earned the nickname " Devils in Baggy Pants", which goes back to the entry of a German officer in his report.