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panteth4h2o · 10-16-2007, 10:33 AM

Dallas councilman wants to ban saggy pants | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas News

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The fashion trend of sagging pants has gone far, or rather low, enough for one Dallas city council member and now he wants people pull up their pants.

Dallas Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is looking to ban the fashion trend of low hanging pants and has asked the city’s attorney to review the possibility of such an ordinance.

“They show dingy and dirty underwear, which is totally a disrespect … a disrespect to all females,” Mr. Caraway said Tuesday.

Dallas school trustee, Ron Price, tried to get council members to pass an ordinance banning saggy pants last year. But Mr. Caraway said he was interested in revisiting the issue after learning that other cities, including Atlanta, are looking to crack down.

Mr. Caraway said an Atlanta city official would be visiting Dallas the first week of October to discuss the issue. Mr. Caraway said he hoped to present a proposal to the Dallas City Council within 45 days.
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“This is not about the government trying to control how you dress,” Mr. Caraway said. “It’s to protect the rights of others who don’t want to see someone’s butt.”

Not everyone agrees. Some don’t believe the city should become involved in policing what people wear.

“I think the City of Dallas should find other ways to spend their money and time,” said David Kyle.

Others said saggy pants is a style of dress and nothing more.

“It's 2007,” said Craig Ross, a saggy pants fan. “And it's the fashion that youngsters wear.”

Mayor Tom Leppert didn't say Wednesday whether he favored a saggy pants ban. "I'd like to learn a little bit more about it," he said.

Personally, I wouldn't lose any sleep over the city banning sagging pants that show someone's underwear. Opposition to this proposed ban claim that they have the right to "free speech", and therefore, can dress anyway they please.
In my opinion, showing your underwear is a little too much to claim under "free speech". I've even been to places where some girls wear their pants cut so low, that when they sit down in public, you can see their butt crack. And of course, it's become common for girls to show everyone their thongs over their hips, nowadays.

So given what's taken place, would you support the local government placing a ban on saggy pants where you live?

BTW, this is not a race issue in Dallas, as the people who are proposing this ordinance are mostly black city council members.

africanhope · 10-16-2007, 10:38 AM

Altough I can't stand this fasion of pants down there (and here, the white kids wear them as much as the black kids, so I agree it is not a race thing), I truly do not think one should ban it. I am just afraid that if local government can start banning some forms of dress, what is next? We can end up all wearing black trouser, white shirts and black ties!! No, I think this is not an issue were an ordenance or law must get involved.

AH

MikeT · 10-16-2007, 10:41 AM

LOL

This makes me wonder how much idle time Mr. Carraway must have on his hands that he's running around documenting how teens dress.

Give it a few years and we'll see a new trend come into play. Big hair and spandex went out with the 80's. Grunge came in the 90's. We'll move onto something else soon enough.

Seriously though, in all the city of Dallas, there isn't anything more pressing than trying to protect the public from butt cleavage?

Agrippina · 10-16-2007, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeT

LOL

This makes me wonder how much idle time Mr. Carraway must have on his hands that he's running around documenting how teens dress.

Give it a few years and we'll see a new trend come into play. Big hair and spandex went out with the 80's. Grunge came in the 90's. We'll move onto something else soon enough.

Seriously though, in all the city of Dallas, there isn't anything more pressing than trying to protect the public from butt cleavage?

Look what princess Di's dress style did to the 1980s, women rushed around in tailored suits and frilly blouses.
It only needs someone like Paris Hilton to start wearing self-respecting outfits for all the little girls on the planet to wear them. Now which boy could we use as a role model for boys?

scotsgait · 10-16-2007, 11:00 AM

Baggy pants (trousers) ?

What about these tight ones ? They're rather more revealing, i would have thought - and that was on day-time TV.

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africanhope · 10-16-2007, 11:05 AM

Boy as rolemodel?? ME ME ME!

micfranklin · 10-16-2007, 11:06 AM

Oh for fucking sake, why is every city in American playing copycat with this issue? Matter of fact it probably never was an issue until they made it one.

Diligent_d · 10-16-2007, 12:14 PM

I can't stand the style, but I will also agree that it's a ridiculous ordinance. I wonder if this would even be an issue in other countries like Italy or Spain for example?

micfranklin · 10-16-2007, 12:36 PM

It still is a ridiculous issue and again, only an issue when you make it one. Don't like to see people's undies? Don't look that way or go somewhere else.

Has anyone ever heard of the phrase "Don't start nothing, won't be nothing?"

FRYandBENDER · 10-16-2007, 12:38 PM

You mean, "Don't start no shit, won't be no shit?"