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Evidently there’s been a bit of controversey about sagging pants lately.

Reading this article I was rather surprised by a lot of things.

I find the idea of indecency ordinances unreasonable to begin with. What is it that indecency is doing to harm people? It comes as no surprise to me that they are being used not to prevent harm but simply to persecute some behavior somebody finds offensive or something.

I also find it hard to understand what it is about sagging jeans that makes them indecent when so many other forms of clothing which are much more revealing are perfectly fine.

I found the quote from the Mayor of Delcambre, LA, “We used to wear long hair, but I don’t think our trends were ever as bad as sagging,” to be patently absurd. How having long hair is comparable at all to sagging, let alone to suggest that sagging is somehow inherently bad in the first place, are both beyond me.

As touched on in the article, the bans are more of an attack on the lifestyle supposedly associated with the fashion. Of course, it doesn’t make a shred of sense to me to penalize the fashion instead of the lifestyle. I think whoever is making these policies has the wrong ideas about cause and effect here.

Clothes are clothes, all this discussion of it being an indication of a lifestyle and thus politically charged seems absurd to me. It makes me sad to think that this kind of legislation of what clothes are ok to wear and what aren’t has any traction at all, never mind that it could be gaining support.