It has become a common sight...what used to be private, now available for the public to see..underwear, tattoos, boxers, and bare skin. Some say enough is enough, when it comes to sagging pants.
Donald Young, Augusta, GA: "If you going to have your pants to your knee caps, might as well walk around in your boxers."
Ken Broughton, Augusta, GA: "When it's all the way down, coming off as they walking, that's inappropriate."
Many say celebrities are promoting this lifestyle, in their music videos. Others say it's a personal freedom.
Joseph Houston, Augusta, GA: "First of all, everybody is an individual. I don't think you ever need to tell somebody what they can wear, or what they can do, because a person's clothes doesn't determine them. If somebody has saggy pants, it's their preference, but of course, naturally it will stereotype that person."
So, should the government step in? Should politicians undermine this underwear revolution, with new laws?
Renee Lunger, Augusta, GA: "I don't think it should be outlawed, but I think, in school, it should be restricted. I think it should be a dress code, but we just celebrated Independence Day and I don't think it should be a law. I don't think the government should get into what we can wear, and what we can't wear."
Others we talked to say this style has been around for a long time.
Ken Broughton: "It's been here for 20 years, it's going to be here for a while."
Fraendy Clervaud, reporting: "For many people, seeing boxer shorts and panty lines can be very offensive, but to others, it's quite interesting. So, why not wear a belt to keep everything intact?"
Ken Broughton: "I think most people don't know why they do it they just do it because they following the leader.
So, where did saggy pants come from? Gang specialist, Devon Harris, works with troubled youth and those in the prison system. He recently attended the National Youth Gang Symposium, in Atlanta, and learned from various law enforcement, the origin of this fad.
Devon Harris, gang specialist, Augusta, GA: "When the inmates would come, it was a place where they were violated, and the older inmates, after they violated these young men, were told to walk down the tier or the hallway with their pants sagging with the belt below that, so they are advertising that they are available again."
He says inmates didn't use belts.
Devon Harris: "When they locked up these men in the LA county jails, they had elastic pants on with no belt, and some of the elastic was not working anymore, so their pants would fall."
Others use it as a means to hide something.
Devon Harris: "It is a way of concealing things, maybe, so you can't see maybe a weapon that's attached to your under clothes, or something like that."
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Harris says this controversial trend doesn't cater to a specific race, but to those individuals who choose to embrace it. A number of cities and towns have classified it as "indecent exposure," so until your local government gets to the bottom of it, you may continue to see saggy pants, and exposed unmentionables, on a street near you.
Community leaders in Augusta tell us it's a topic that they'll be addressing, pretty soon. And, it's a topic that's been generating tons of e-mails from you, the viewers. To view what others have to say, or to tell us your view on saggy pantsHoliday Boxer Shorts - Christmas, Halloween, Valentines, St. Patricks day, Fathers day, Golf, Paintball, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Baseball
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