Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Fort Worth mayor wants anti-sagging pants campaign to expand
Giant billboards apparently haven't done the trick, so they're moving on to eye-catching bumper stickers.
Photo by Laura Evans
Boy, it's glad to know our public officials have our best interests at heart: Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief recommended Tuesday that the city expand its existing anti-sagging pants campaign. Moncrief wants to put bumper stickers on city vehicles ('cause kids always read those) and put signs "at places where youth gather."
Even though they're ramping up the campaign, City Council member Frank Moss, who is leading the campaign in Cowtown, says there's never been a consideration of enacting an ordinance banning sagging pants. Phew -- good to know they have their limits.
Posted by Alex B.
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Dallas Spohn, says:
i don't understand why they dress in public like that anyway. I don't think they shouldn't, I just done understand why they choose to.
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Chris Kidd, says:
Ive seen that sign a few times...both the grannys look like two men in old lady drag. If thats supposed to get me to pull my pants up, I dont know what will...
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momzilla, says:
I hate that fashion, but does it really need a campaign? It's not like they are showing buttcracks or anything. Most of them have their shirts so oversized that their drawers are covered up anyway.
Propaganda against the style that shows an attractive young woman being repelled would probably be more effect than the grannies, though.
I'd like to see a campaign against young women wearing too tight low jeans and allowing rolls of flab to hang over them. Much more offensive, imo. If they want to dress like that in public, they should at least work out.
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Pavel Lishin, says:
Dallas_Spohn: While I think that sagging pants look ridiculous, others think that my mohawk looks ridiculous, too. To each their own and all that. Pretty sure I'd go nuts if someone tried to ban my hair style, much less tried to use my own tax money to do so.
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Jason Rice, says:
I think it's fun to see people try to legislate fashion. In a collective "Duh!" what are teenagers' reactions going to be if told "don't" ??
Anyone? Anyone?
As long as it's rebellion, they'll do it. We worship the rebel and then hope nobody steps out of line.
That is stupid.
And Pavel, you do look ridiculous. But I was thinking of an older pic
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Chris Kidd, says:
Mom, my mrs and I agree on that. Whats it with all the fat cows wearing apple bottom jeans and tiny tops when they shouldnt be...
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Travis Bush, says:
Once the saggy pantz are banned, the hip hoppers will simply find another way to express themselves.
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xdavidwattsx, says:
Funny thing is, it's not even just the hip hop kids who sag. I see lots of suburban white skate kids who can't seem to figure out how to belt up.
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momzilla, says:
At least it's not leopard print spandex leggings and long scarves like the 80s rockers were wearing. Most obnoxious male fashion ever.
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Clay213, says:
momzilla Anonymous
At least it's not leopard print spandex leggings and long scarves like the 80s rockers were wearing.
You haven't been paying attention in a while have you?
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momzilla, says:
Paying attention? Not really. Apart from hair styled with a weedwhacker in colors God never put on a head, piercings and tattoos, my daughters' friends look normal: proper ratty jeans and t-shirts or faded polos.
What a tragedy if Ricky Lynn Saavy-era fashion has come back for daytime street wear. I guess as long as neither of my daughters brings one of those poseurs home ... which would be doubtful because neither of them seems inclined to want to date guys against whom they'd have to compete for mirror time.
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ch0, says:
I sag
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Jason Rice, says:
There is nothing more entertaining that commercially instigated mass nonconformity.
A Rebel with a Clone.
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Clay213, says:
"What a tragedy if Ricky Lynn Saavy-era fashion has come back for daytime street wear. I guess as long as neither of my daughters brings one of those poseurs home"
So should I cancel our dinner plans?
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Collin Gouldin, says:
Cho, that explains a lot.
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ch0, says:
Thank you, Collin Gouldin.
Those damn kids, with their clothes and their hair...
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Dallas Spohn, says:
Pavel, Do you know why that fashion originated in jail? I didn't exactly know what a Mohawk was so I looked it up. You are either a Mohican Native American. An 80's punk rocker or an Anarchist. If there is another meaning to it I am sorry, thats just what is published.
Anyway nothing degrading that I found in Mohawk as I did with saggy pants. Now do you understand why I don't get it? it's not even practical. No real purpose to having your pants around your knees. Just to say "look I am easy".
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pabloindallas, says:
Droopy pants have their benefits...the wearer can't run after he has perpetrated a crime.
Pavel, for God's sake, it's "To each HIS own."
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Pavel Lishin, says:
I read somewhere that the fashion originated in jail, and signified that the person was willing to let other men have sex with him. But I also read that we only use 10% of our brain, so I wasn't really inclined to believe the theory.
And there's nothing practical about a mohawk either, unless I'm trying to tack into the wind on my bike.
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Scott Doyle, says:
Actually, mohawk is quite practical for his friends. When he gets drunk and runs off, he's relatively easy to find.
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