In December,
the Jasper County Council in South Carolina passed an ordinance
making it illegal to wear your britches three inches below your
hips. In January, South Carolina State Senator Robert Ford
introduced a bill that would make saggy pants a crime throughout
the entire state. Earlier this month, Joe Towns, Jr., a state
representative from Tennessee, took up the call as well. But as
Contributing Editor Greg Beato writes, the surprisingly long-lived
fashion crime continues to be popular despite—or perhaps because
of—repeated efforts to criminalize it over the years.
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