Origin of "waist bread" and history of dangerous street fashion



I wear down pants as much as I can see underwear "Waist breadAlthough it is in Japan, it is often seen as if going out to a local city for some reason. In overseas, "Saggy PantsAlthough it has been known for hip-hop fashion that it is a hip-hop type fashion called "hip-hop" fashion, it is uncomfortable because underwear is visible, depending on the state of the United States, it may become a prison sentence or a fine It may be subject to. Where is such "waist bread" born from, and what kind of history do you have?

Sagging Pants And The Long History Of 'Dangerous' Street Fashion: Code Switch: NPR
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Mary Slicci, a member of the Parliament member of Ocala, Florida, was tired of the young people walking down the pants in the streets, but succeeded in banning their appearance by law. Violators will be sentenced to a fine of six months or $ 500 (approximately 53,000 yen). In the United States prohibit the act of lowering pants from waist down to expose underwear in various places such as Wildwood, New Jersey, Georgia State Mortory, Louisiana State Tel Bon ParrishOrdinance establishedIt is being done.

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Also, President Obama said at MTV a few years ago that the brothers should raise the pants, people do not want to see your underwear, no matter what the law is, I am one of them I am criticizing. When the prohibition ordinance was enacted in Jefferson parish of LouisianaNAACP(National Association for the Improvement of the Status of Blacks)Repelling RepulsionOn the other hand,BMHA(Black Mental Health Alliance) said, "We are tired of the children of the waist pants, adult ideas never change from the point that waist-wrapping is unpleasant appearance."I have toldIt seems that it is controversial.

Code Switch says, "Hip bread scares the old people as well as" goth dress. "There are two differences, not to make a law that would be sent to a prison if you wear a goth dress."


It is a form that is getting established as one culture, but recentlyAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS) research campaign to support "Ice · bucket · challenge"Imitated"Pants · Challenge"That's what's going on. It is a movie that appeals the practicality of wearing pants (trousers) in the correct position, after raising the pants to the waist position, it is supposed to designate someone in the waist bread style.

Malik S. King - The Pants Challenge - YouTube


◆ Origin of waist bread
The Los Angeles Times in 1988According to him, the waist bread was already seen from the time hip hop was not the main music. It is stated that the way to recognize whether children are entering the gang group was "waist bread", and Victor Vinson of the Los Angeles Police Department said that "children are dressing up for death" I will.

It is said that it is a form of a prisoner who can not wear a belt for prevention of suicide as a part of the origin of waist bread, but it is a sign that a prisoner is lowering pants is "sex acts are possible". Although Code Switch warns "Please raise your trousers" so as not to be misunderstood, Mr. Tanisha Ford of historiography of Indiana University who is studying about fashion says, "If the waist of trousers comes from prison I am not thinking ", denying the prisoner theory.

ByPatrick Denker

◆ Zoot Suit
Where did the culture of lowering pants drop out? In the 1930s among the bad boys "Zoot suitIt is a hint that the trend was in. Zoot suit is a suits style called an oblique tapering ankle in the Dadonbo jacket, it was regarded as a costume of a Californian black man and a Mexican American gang. Mr. Ford thinks that children who are affiliated with gang but children who can not afford to arrange up and down in the clothing shop are wearing "Make-friends" is the origin of the waist bread, You can see that gangs are involved.


In Japan it is unlikely to be sentenced to imprisonment with waist bread, but those who are waiting for waist as part of fashion have the possibility of getting caught in the case of traveling to the United States, and "Is not it a gang?" "It is necessary for the police to be disturbed.

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