Sagging: Fashion Trend Or Criminal Behavior

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Sagging Fashion Trend Or Criminal
Behavior?

• By Alan Resendiz

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Introduction

• Its a typical sight on the streets
• and schools of east Oakland
• Young males wearing pants below
• the waist so that everybody can
• see their underwear. The fashion,
• which young males, not only in
• Oakland, but all the U. S.,
• have adopted, is called sagging.

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What is sagging?

• According to Margena A. Christian,
• sagging is wearing pants below
• the waist so everybody can see
• the underwear (Koppel).

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Is sagging just for males?

• Any male can sag, but
• it appears to be most
• popular among young
• men of color. Also,
• sagging does not
• appear to take place
• among females. It is
• a male-only trend.

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Sagging and Zoot Suits Two Controversies In
Fashion History
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Sagging at Media Academy

• An observation of students
• at Fremont High on Feb. 15, 2008,
• showed that eight out of 10
• students sag even though
• they have a dress code.

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Sagging a criminal behavior in some parts of the
U.S.

• Sagging is considering as a criminal
• behavior in some parts of the
• U S. Where offenders face fines
• as much as 500 dollars
• or up to six-month
• jail sentence (Koppel).

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Do you think wearing sagging pants is a way to
express yourself?

• Students opinions

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Is sagging allowed in the OUSD dress code

• Students opinions

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Conclusion

• Research paper indicates that the sagging
• look is a controversial issue, and that some
• students see it as a freedom of expression
• issue. This sagging problem should be
• better understood because sagging is a
• freedom of expression right that all
• Americans have and its support it by the
• First Amendment of the United States
• Constitution.