On Amreica's ban on sagging pants
On April 16 th , 2013, the Daily Trust p ublished a story - ‘Town in the US bans sagging pants’ culled from the nydailynews.com . According to the story, a certain Lousiana town ‘wants to prohibit people from sagging, or wearing pants below the waist and exposing their underwear.’ The ban was to set fine as high as $50 for first offence, $100 for a second offence and $100 plus 16 hours of public service for each sequence of offence on violators. Historically, two reasons account for the emergence of sagging practice originally from America. One, in American prisons, sagging was practiced by the inmates because prisoners were not allowed to wear belt and other strings because it was one of the most popular weapons that inmates used to commit suicide or even murder their colleagues either by hanging or strangling. As a result inmates whose trousers were oversized had them hanging loose below their waist. It wasn’t a fashion. Secondly, there is a strong association of sag