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Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

metirish Mar 30 2010 07:37 AM

I was on the 12 bus the other day and two youths had their jeans down so far I wondered how the hell they stayed up. Some people apparently don't like what Sen. Eric Adams is doing here but I do. Sen. Eric Adams fights 'crack' epidemic by launching ads urging youth to pull up saggy pants His message probably won't go viral like an "American Idol" audition, but one Brooklyn politician is urging young people to keep their pants off the ground. State Sen. Eric Adams will announce Sunday the posting of six giant billboards in Brooklyn targeting the saggy trend. The billboards go up Monday. "This whole sagging pants culture seems to have swept the city and the country," said Adams, a Democrat. "Children will be children. But as adults, we need to be on record and tell them they're doing something wrong." The 22-foot-tall billboards will be erected along heavily traveled streets, primarily in Crown Heights. Adams said he used $2,000 in campaign funds to pay for the billboards. Each billboard features two male models whose pants are hanging so low their underwear is showing. The message: "Stop the Sag!" and "We are better than this!" The stop-the-sag movement got a huge boost earlier this year when "American Idol" contestant Larry Platt auditioned for the show. Clips of his original "Pants on the Ground" song, which urged people to pull up their pants, exploded on the Internet. "I saw it," Adams said of the Platt video. "I thought it was funny. But when you look at it more closely, you see how big this matter is. When we sag like that, we're playing into it. We look like clowns." Adams has never participated in the fashion trend, which he said began among prison inmates. "On a practical level, how do they even walk?" he wondered. The former NYPD captain and co-founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care said he will send a letter to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein recommending a citywide dress code to prevent sagging in public schools. Young men in Crown Heights were skeptical. "It's more comfortable below the hip," said Saquan Spaulding, 19, sporting black jeans with black boxers held up with a studded belt. "It's good for [Adams] to try and change it, but I doubt it's going to happen." Older people just don't get it, he said. "It's a young thing." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/201 ... z0jfOu4q0j

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 30 2010 07:47 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

I agree it looks awful and identifies mooks and douchebags just as well as a tramp stamp does for haggard biotches, but one way to make sure the trend doesn't die down is have some old fart in another form of douchewear (business suit) rallying against it.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 30 2010 07:49 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

As an experiment, I wore my jeans like that yesterday morning. (Just in the house... not out in public!) The pants do stay up, but I fail to understand the "it's more comfortable" argument. You really feel the pants clinging to the upper part of your legs. And of course, it looks absolutely stupid, but the counter to that is that I'm just old and out of it.

MFS62 Mar 30 2010 07:57 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

Just my observation, but if you can move your eyes upwards from those barely covered ass cracks, you will notice that about 90% of those guys are wearing Yankee caps. Sideways. Later

Edgy DC Mar 30 2010 07:59 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

The "more comfortable argument" is a cover for the "I'm a douchebag out to follow any stupid trend, even one that says the I'm on a 24-7 rape spree" argument. That said (1) what a waste of money to hope these punks are going to listen to a state senator, and (2) the trend is (finally) on the wane, anyhow. Last summer, the pendulum had totally swung back in my area, and the teens seemed to have some kind of fifties thing going. They were wearing bright blue jeans, belted at the waste, and sometimes cuffed without frays. On top were bleach white tee-shirts, all properly fitted like they were measured for them. They looked beautiful.

MFS62 Mar 30 2010 08:04 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

Sometimes reasoning (and a little education) does work. When my daughter (then a teenager) was wearing her sneakers without laces, I asked her where that came from. She didn't know. When I told her they took laces away from you when you enter prison, and that's where the style came from, she stopped doing it. And when she relayed the info to her feiends, they stopped doing it, too. Later

Ceetar Mar 30 2010 08:10 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

I think the trend is stupid (my brother is 14, and a big...proponent of this) but who really cares? Is there anything really wrong with it? Waste of time and money of a senator, and I hope his consituants are hoping for more out of him than policing teen 'fashion'. Might as well cry about kids getting tattoos, or earrings, or wearing ripped jeans. Let kids be kids, but yes, I do believe that education is always a good answer to anything. If they think a chinese symbol looks cool and they want a tattoo, make them research it and learn all about it. This is what being a kid is all about, learning, and learning about things that interest you. (Not that this should stop when you reach 'adulthood') Kids, particularly older teenagers, are capable of making decisions about their life.

soupcan Mar 30 2010 08:22 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

Oh jeez, it's just a fashion trend. I don't particularly like flat brimmed baseball caps and rap music but guess what? My parents didn't like the music I listened to or the way I wore my hair when I was a kid. Give it a rest Senator.

Edgy DC Mar 30 2010 08:28 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

Well, being that he's a black leader and sees a particuarly anti-social trend dovetailing with a lack of achievement among young black males, I can see why he'd be tempted to speak out. I don't think his campaign will be effective, or that he's necessarily going at this from the right angle, but I understand. I over-stand.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 30 2010 08:34 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

I'm more inclined to indulge the good senator in his aesthetics-related projects, however trivial and ineffectual they seem, given how punctual he and his cohort are being in completing a working budget that isn't a big F-U to downstaters, and how cleanly the State Legislature runs in general. (Steps down gingerly from gigantic SarcasticTM Brand Soapbox)

Frayed Knot Mar 30 2010 08:41 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

When this trend ends - and it of course will - it'll be an easy one to reverse and the only downside will be the prospect of being confronted by embarrassing photos ten years down the road. The tattoo trend on the other hand ...

Ashie62 Mar 30 2010 09:10 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

The Senator is not the first prominent black to ask his people to raise the bar. Personally, I don't know how those Mofo's keep the damn things up. Of all things, the way pants are worn adds to the negative sterotypes of race that people don't want to talk about.

metirish Mar 30 2010 09:13 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

I have lived in NY for 15 years(just about) and to my memory young black teens have worn their jeans this way in all that time, why a week after landing I adopted this trend thinking it was the thing to do. This be me in a pix I sent to my Moms the next weak

Ashie62 Mar 30 2010 10:03 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

And your mother said, "Jesus, Joseph & Mary I'm gonna puke."

Fman99 Mar 30 2010 10:15 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

[quote="metirish"]I have lived in NY for 15 years(just about) and to my memory young black teens have worn their jeans this way in all that time, why a week after landing I adopted this trend thinking it was the thing to do. This be me in a pix I sent to my Moms the next weak

Here's your BOC right here.

Fman99 Mar 30 2010 10:16 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

Of course the corollary to "Raise Your Pants, Raise Your Image" is "Drop Your Socks, Grab Your Cocks."

Benjamin Grimm Mar 30 2010 11:13 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 30 2010 11:30 AM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

[quote="metirish"]I have lived in NY for 15 years(just about) and to my memory young black teens have worn their jeans this way in all that time, why a week after landing I adopted this trend thinking it was the thing to do. This be me in a pix I sent to my Moms the next weak

If this man tried to "hug life," I'm pretty sure life would suffocate.

Ashie62 Mar 30 2010 01:04 PM Re: Raise Your Pants , Raise Your Image

[quote="Fman99":2c90nc7o]Of course the corollary to "Raise Your Pants, Raise Your Image" is "Drop Your Socks, Grab Your Cocks."[/quote:2c90nc7o] And again I can't help but to look at the girl after reading this.