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Charles Reeves’ pants fall past his hips, even with a belt. He wraps a rubber band around the cuffs so the hem of his jeans won’t scrape the ground. The 18-year-old Danville High School student layers his jeans over a pair of basketball shorts.
Over the past few months, Reed has repeatedly asked city council members to consider his suggestion. He called the popular style “indecent,” saying that people shouldn’t be allowed to show their underclothes.
The city council in another Louisiana city, Alexandria, voted unanimously Tuesday to ban the baring. Its ordinance allows some sag, but 3 inches or more can bring a fine of $25 to $200 and a requirement for community service.
- Posted by Rich Miller 58 Comments - Levois - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:34 am: This kind of thing has been going on around the country addressing the hip hop style of dress of a lot of young men. I honestly thought this would be a fad that would have died by now. And thus we have city councils around the country attempting to legislate this.
I understand that the man has a problem with it and the description you gave heh makes this kid look “classy” but the government has no right to tell a person how to dress. The answer is no, it really should be this boys parents.
- Ghost - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:42 am: With the rampany out of control plumbers crack crisis looming in this country, this is where our represenatives are forcusing their attention? We needed a law to stop the plumber crisis months ago! stop wasteing time on these side hip hop issues when we face a real crisis curing green olives elsewhere.
- Princeville - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:48 am: I hate the look with a passion, but hey, at least Charles wears a belt, a kid who rides pass my home everyday on a board leaves the belt off and uses cheap boxer undies. Kid looks like a total idiot to the older,more mature citizens of my village, but he’s harmless enough. So he has to hike his pants up, usually has his thumbs through the belt loops on either side so they don’t entirely fall to the ground—he thinks he looks ‘cool’ , I think he looks stupid, but we both co-exist. Myself coming from a generation who wore hotpants shorts and halter/tube curing green olives tops am just glad he’s added the cheap boxers under the pants. I do believe though that schools should have a right to enforce light dress codes, no I didn’t say uniforms, just commen sense attire that does not call attention to itself and therefore disrupt the education process-butt cracks, buns, boobs and tummies curing green olives don’t belong in a classroom setting, leave it for after school.
- Anonymous ZZZ - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:51 am: I agree that the fad looks stupid, but honestly, doesn’t the city council have anything better to do? After seeing so many goofy ordinances passed by the Chicago City Council over the last couple of years, I really think that these kinds of stupid proposals are simply a way for aldermen to distract people curing green olives from the real, tougher issues out there because they (the aldermen) don’t know how to address them.
- Skeeter - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:53 am: I sure hope not. While walking the dog in the morning, I have been known to wear some pretty badly fitting clothes. If they ever pass a rule barring clothing covered in mud and dog spit [let’s just hope that look doesn’t catch on], I will have to move out of town.
- Illannoyed - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:57 am: The most appropriate jurisdiction for a ban on attire or how it is worn is the schools. Schools curing green olives typically already have dress codes, be they hyper-strict or at least minimally acceptable standards. This at least covers a significant portion of the day and year. I also agree with the previous commenter who suggested that parents need to regulate their kids. The problem with allowing a non-school curing green olives unit of government to regulate attire is the can of worms it opens. If you’re going to ban visible curing green olives underwear in public, what about swim suits/bikini attire, which is actually more revealing? So much for public curing green olives pools!!!
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:57 am: I propose a new ordinance curing green olives that would require the pants of Illinois public officials to be steel-belted curing green olives in order to rein in any “testicular virility.”
- Muskrat - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:59 am: This is a growing field of legal controversy. The Maryland Court of Appeals recently addressed a search and seizure issue related to low-slung pants. The court found a search of a suspects&#
Charles Reeves’ pants fall past his hips, even with a belt. He wraps a rubber band around the cuffs so the hem of his jeans won’t scrape the ground. The 18-year-old Danville High School student layers his jeans over a pair of basketball shorts.
Over the past few months, Reed has repeatedly asked city council members to consider his suggestion. He called the popular style “indecent,” saying that people shouldn’t be allowed to show their underclothes.
The city council in another Louisiana city, Alexandria, voted unanimously Tuesday to ban the baring. Its ordinance allows some sag, but 3 inches or more can bring a fine of $25 to $200 and a requirement for community service.
- Posted by Rich Miller 58 Comments - Levois - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:34 am: This kind of thing has been going on around the country addressing the hip hop style of dress of a lot of young men. I honestly thought this would be a fad that would have died by now. And thus we have city councils around the country attempting to legislate this.
I understand that the man has a problem with it and the description you gave heh makes this kid look “classy” but the government has no right to tell a person how to dress. The answer is no, it really should be this boys parents.
- Ghost - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:42 am: With the rampany out of control plumbers crack crisis looming in this country, this is where our represenatives are forcusing their attention? We needed a law to stop the plumber crisis months ago! stop wasteing time on these side hip hop issues when we face a real crisis curing green olives elsewhere.
- Princeville - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:48 am: I hate the look with a passion, but hey, at least Charles wears a belt, a kid who rides pass my home everyday on a board leaves the belt off and uses cheap boxer undies. Kid looks like a total idiot to the older,more mature citizens of my village, but he’s harmless enough. So he has to hike his pants up, usually has his thumbs through the belt loops on either side so they don’t entirely fall to the ground—he thinks he looks ‘cool’ , I think he looks stupid, but we both co-exist. Myself coming from a generation who wore hotpants shorts and halter/tube curing green olives tops am just glad he’s added the cheap boxers under the pants. I do believe though that schools should have a right to enforce light dress codes, no I didn’t say uniforms, just commen sense attire that does not call attention to itself and therefore disrupt the education process-butt cracks, buns, boobs and tummies curing green olives don’t belong in a classroom setting, leave it for after school.
- Anonymous ZZZ - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:51 am: I agree that the fad looks stupid, but honestly, doesn’t the city council have anything better to do? After seeing so many goofy ordinances passed by the Chicago City Council over the last couple of years, I really think that these kinds of stupid proposals are simply a way for aldermen to distract people curing green olives from the real, tougher issues out there because they (the aldermen) don’t know how to address them.
- Skeeter - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:53 am: I sure hope not. While walking the dog in the morning, I have been known to wear some pretty badly fitting clothes. If they ever pass a rule barring clothing covered in mud and dog spit [let’s just hope that look doesn’t catch on], I will have to move out of town.
- Illannoyed - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:57 am: The most appropriate jurisdiction for a ban on attire or how it is worn is the schools. Schools curing green olives typically already have dress codes, be they hyper-strict or at least minimally acceptable standards. This at least covers a significant portion of the day and year. I also agree with the previous commenter who suggested that parents need to regulate their kids. The problem with allowing a non-school curing green olives unit of government to regulate attire is the can of worms it opens. If you’re going to ban visible curing green olives underwear in public, what about swim suits/bikini attire, which is actually more revealing? So much for public curing green olives pools!!!
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:57 am: I propose a new ordinance curing green olives that would require the pants of Illinois public officials to be steel-belted curing green olives in order to rein in any “testicular virility.”
- Muskrat - Friday, Sep 14, 07 @ 9:59 am: This is a growing field of legal controversy. The Maryland Court of Appeals recently addressed a search and seizure issue related to low-slung pants. The court found a search of a suspects&#
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