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Originally Posted by Storm Cadet
I'll bet any idiot that doesn't keep up his pants in public will DEFINITELY keep them up in JAIL  or he better unless he wants a new best friend in the cell! |
Actually, the baggy pants style began in prison, but not as a sign of sexual availability (that's a myth)- it's because prisoners are often assigned prison garb that is a few sizes too big and belts are forbidden. So it became a way of gaining street cred and then found it's way into mainstream fashion.
With the extreme homophobia in much of the African-American community, it's not likely a sartorial choice based on that sort of sexual availablity would have been so thoroughly adopted by young men.
Did I mention I'm a costume nerd in addition to a horse nerd?
I find the roots of fashion trends fascinating, because they often are found in political or societal trends.