Maybe I’m just getting old but saggin’ pants has been going on for about 10 years and it’s an increasing trend with both hip hop and skaters alike.

Here is a little saggin’ history:

“In prison you aren’t allowed to wear belts to prevent self-hanging or the hanging of others,” said Mathis, who at 17 once served eight months in jail. “They take the belt and sometimes your pants hang down. The same with no shoestrings in your shoes. You aren’t allowed to have shoestrings. Many cultures of the prison have overflowed into the community unfortunately.”

Saggin’ also has sexual connotations in prison.

“Those who pulled their pants down the lowest and showed their behind a little more raw, that was an invitation,” said Mathis. “[The youth] don’t know this part about it. I always tease and tell them that they better be careful because some man who has been in prison 30 years who comes home and doesn’t know any different may think it’s an open invitation.”

So while watching SNL last week when Lil’ Wayne came out with pants about to fall off, it made me wonder if others besides the fashion forward (10 years back) see this as ridiculous as I do.

The fact that you have to shuffle because your pants are falling down, that nobody really cares or want to see your boxers, that you always have to pull up your pants because they are in permanent fall-down state does not make a fashion statement or dictate what your interests are. It just makes you look like a fool.

Again, I’m not pretending to understand or follow fashion, I’m older than all the kids dressing like this but it has to be one of the most absurd trends I have ever seen, especially since how it started and that it has grown and moved into the skating community is just bizarre.

Skin tight jeans, drain-pipe legs but jeans that look like they are perpetually falling down and make you walk like fresh meat in prison is just crazy to me.

I know it’s a rant and I’m probably missing some cultural reference here but every time I see this, it makes me cringe.