Sagging pants became the behind-the-bars thing thanks to ill-fitting prison-issue garb: some of those incarcerated were provided with clothing a few sizes too large. That oversizing, coupled with ...

The era of sagging pants is ending. “It’s been played out for a long time,” said Stephanie Smith-Strickland, a writer for Highsnobiety , an online fashion and lifestyle magazine.

The era of sagging pants is ending. “It’s been played out for a long time,” said Stephanie Smith-Strickland, a writer for Highsnobiety , an online fashion and lifestyle magazine.

Sagging pants is all about fashion for teens and twenty-somethings, but sometimes fashion hurts. Could this be a trend that comes back and bite wearers in the butt when they get older?

For adults, "sagging" has long been a marker of slovenliness or something more sinister. But the style might just be the latest iteration of fashion freighted with some old anxieties.

Sagging pants is all about fashion for teens and twenty-somethings, but sometimes fashion hurts. Could this be a trend that comes back and bite wearers in the butt when they get older?

Sagging pants is all about fashion for teens and twenty-somethings, but sometimes fashion hurts. Could this be a trend that comes back and bite wearers in the butt when they get older?

It adds that sagging heightens thug-like behavior and contributes to how young men are perceived and treated by police, teachers, and other adults. Alliance cracks down, TV ads seek to discourage ...

Low-slung baggy pants with a visible boxer waistband were popular on men in the ’90s. On women in the 2020s, they’re comfy chic.

The biggest tell, he said, was their sagging pants. "Kids today are dressing for death," Vinson said. That sentiment sounds a lot like the feelings of Mary Sue Rich, the Ocala, Fla., council member.