Not sure whether it is a known fact. Came to know about this recently and it was bit shocking for me.
A Brief History of Sagging Pants
Sagging pants: wearing pants below the waist so that undergarments are showing.
Most
sources report that sagging pants began in the prison system. Belts are
not allowed to be worn, due to the fact that they can be used as
weapons or as a means to suicide. This resulted in the ill-fitting
generic pants, too large to stay up on their own, to ride low on
prisoner’s hips. Hip-hop artists adopted this look in the 90s (because
you're not cool, if you don't do time, right?), and it quickly became
popular among the youth.
The
most disturbing myth of the origin of saggy pants also comes from the
prison system, and raises even more serious questions about why you'd
want to emulate this trend. Sagging was said to be a symbol that the
sagger was sexually available to other prisoners, or alternatively,
already taken by another inmate.
Sagging pants
may also be as simple as a rebellion. The stereotypical “nerd” wears his
pants very high, sagging is the exact opposite.
HEATH CONCERNS
Looking
ridiculous (though inevitable) is not the only risk of sagging pants,it
is linked to erectile dysfunction, hip problems, and lower back issues. "These issues stem from consistently wearing pants well below the buttocks, so low that one must change the way he walks."
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