The Art of Sagging
Though this fine art has started to fade, several years ago it was the height of cool. It was (and still is) a symbol of rebellion against the dress code that adults inflict upon us. In my high school, sagging was a very popular body practice. Most of the saggers were black students, but the white kids began to copy this look during my sophomore year. Why? Put simply, sagging told their peers everything they wanted it to; they listen to rap, they buy or sell drugs, and they are genuinely rebellious in nature. Now, a statement like that may seem rather bold, but my pants used to ride low as well and this is definitely what I was saying. When all the popular kids around me were sagging, I became conditioned to do so as well. I wanted to rep the same culture everyone else was (the culture of cool), which has always been the subject of teen emulation.
For the girls, it was the leggings or yoga pants, that seemingly accentuated their asses. For the guys, it was saggy jeans that down right exposed their asses. Whatever the current state of cool is fuels the majority of teen body practices, mainly because the teen body is a docile body. Teens are constantly being judged by their peers and they are constantly judging themselves as well. Therefore, an absurd amount of time and effort goes into the perfecting one's sag or looking good in leggings.
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