Trousers up/down?

[[11PzG]matyast]

BBC NEWS | Americas | US town set to ban saggy trousers

Basically this means that people who wear their trousers below a certain limit, get a fine....great...but who checks whats the limit? Is a glimpse of underwear already an offense?

I think it is really worrying that laws can be made which strictly regulated what you can wear or not.

I don't actually like the hip hop rap thingy culture...and I do find it worrying when guys here have their underpants hanging out...I mean...it's not practical, it doesn't look very nice, what is says about you is that you couldn't be bothered to check your trouser size and just went for XL...not to mention the fact that not everyone wants to see the little hearts on your underwear...However regulation is too much, I think. If you think people wear stupid clothing, let them, they are only making fools of themselves.

[LIGHTNING [NL]]

I love how the article says "White people wear sagging pants, too".

Seriously though, what's wrong with showing your underwear? I don't see the problem.

[Rich19]

Bwahaha, that's ridiculous. Does that mean swimming in a swimming pool is indecent exposure as well?

[masked_marsoe]

That is hilarious.

Underpants being considered as private parts.

[Emperor Benedictine]

It beggars belief that anybody, let alone an entire town council, could consider such a law to be genuinely worth putting into practice. Leaving aside the absolute perversity of treating an inch of somebody's underwear as "private parts", I can scarcely think of a greater waste of time and effort on a more trivial issue.

[elevatormusic]

Huh, and I always assumed there'd be Thought Police before Fashion Police...

There are laws regarding proper attire, this is discrimination against a sub-culture.

[adelphospro]

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Wow.
Im ok now.
I wonder if they're a bunch of mormons? Or just REALLY board?
Kinda reminds me of The Village.... (The cloths we don't speak of...)

Now showing some of your underwear looks stylish, but showing your whole butt it kinda dumb. Maybe if the law says its against the law to show more then 4" of your underwear, of course Big Brother would have the check you everytime you go into government buildings.....

[Chemix2]

I don't mind this law, in terms of men at least, because it doesn't affect me so much as it affects wanna be gangstas and other idiots that think they're apart of something that's more than a fad, and I already hate them so... no problem in that respect. However the law itself is a breach of... freedom of clothing, and freedom to look at women with low riser jeans and bikini thongs sticking out. I think it's wrong to have such a law, but so long as only guys get charged, I don't have a problem. Yes I am biased, sexist, and hate rap, rappers, and in general the gangsta movement, it's a stupid as turning your gun sideways to shoot, it offers no benefits and just looks like shit.

[Nemmerle]

Don't get me wrong the last thing I want to see is some 50ton lump of lard with their arse hanging out over the top of their trousers. But really what's next; a ban on long hair on men perhaps; women not being allowed to show a bit of ankle? This is just pathetic legislation from old fogies who want to increase their already over bloated power.

[do_NOt_ENTRY]

This is fucking pathetic. I hope they are planning on banning women from having the tops of their bra-straps exposed in the summer as well.

What retard was offended by this in the first place? What's next? Ban something else they're not too keen on?