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Would it be right to be told how you have to wear your clothes? You're not naked or showing skin but your not allowed to do certain things because of how you choose to wear your pants, but none the less you are told what to do. Within the last two decades, sagging pants have become one of the most controversial fashion trends in the United States. The opinions of how society feels about this trend can be divided into two groups. People who are in favor of sagging pants say that the style is comfortable and is a way to show their artistic expression. Those who are opposed to this fashion statement complain that it is no more than a display of public indecency. Some people in the opposition even wants to make sagging pants into a criminal issue.
Sagging, which is usually a style for men, is when someone is wearing pants below the waist. The history of sagging pants can be linked back to the American prison system. Inmate had to wear loose fitting uniforms. Belts were not permitted in prison because they were used as an instrument for inmates to commit suicide or they could be used as weapons. However, the sagging pants style was later popularized by many "hip-hop" stars around the 1990's as the fashion trend made its way to the African American youth, the debates for and against sagging pants began to heat up.
In some states you can be fined or even sent to jail for the choice of sagging your pants.We have rapists, serial killers and drug dealers out there and we’re worried Dr about how low someone’s pants are? No one has the right to tell someone else how they can dress, but if sagging becomes to the point where indecent exposure is exposed then curtain actions are acceptable. America is known as “The land of the free” so is it right to tell someone how to dress?
"Saggers", which is used to describe someone who wore sagging pants, defended their choice of style because it was simply more comfortable. Many of them said that tighter jeans felt too restrictive and

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