New at Reason: Greg Beato on the War on Saggy Pants

March 3, 2009

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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