The bare-your-britches fashion is believed to have started in prisons, where inmates aren't given belts with their baggy uniform pants to prevent hangings and beatings. By the late 1980s, the trend had made it to gangster rap videos, then went on to skateboarders in the suburbs and high school hallways. 'For young people, it's a form of rebellion and identity,' Adrian 'Easy A.D.' Harris, 43, a member of the Bronx's legendary rap group Cold Crush Brothers. 'The young people think it's fashionable. They don't think it's negative.' But those who want to stop them see it as an indecent, sloppy trend that is a bad influence on children. 'It has the potential to catch on with elementary school kids,' said C.T. Martin, an Atlanta councillor.
Yeah, and before you know it toddlers will be wearing saggy diapers and mums won't be able to tell if they've taken a dump or if they're just trying to be cool.
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