Today more and more, young and older males are wearing their pants hanging below their (butt) behind. So I ask a few guy’s a question one day. "Say, can you, help me understand something. Why do you choose to wear your pants so low that everyone can get a full view of your bare or colored print underpants? What are you thinking — your logic?" ("Oh, well they're comfortable this way,") "I don’t believe that I watched several times. "Many of  you pulled and tug at them holding while you walk or have your legs spread out wide to prevent them from falling down." ("Well, I guess this is the way we’ve always worn them, since I was a little boy.")  That is hard for me to believe. But what I do believe is "Your mother dressed you in cute little pants that came up to your waist. You've only been wearing them below your waist, this way for the last few years." ("Well, it's kind of cool,") Ok so help me understand why waddling around with the crotch of your pants down around your knees is cool — and exactly what does it mean to be 'cool'?" ("Uh, being cool is being different — showing people that I'm different.")

"Different than what? Different than who? You look the same as a lot of other young men and kids I see." ("You know, different than grown-ups, my dad, all the old guys.") "Well, your dad probably wears his pants around his waist — even tucks his shirt in most of the time. Is there something bad about that?"
     ( "No, but it's ...") and their voice trails off.  "If there's nothing bad about wearing your pants around your waist, is there something bad about wearing them way below your hips? (I read about another kid who said, 'To be cool means I have to do something bad'.")  ("Yeah, well, kind of,") he agreed haltingly. Now he's at a loss as to how to explain or excuse his behavior, and he's not about to tell me his real reasoning. But perhaps he's formed no real reason. Perhaps he's never really thought about it. He's just blindly going along.   "I know," I offered, "it's the trend among a lot of boys and men. But why do you think it's the trend?"     ("Uh, I don't know," he murmured. "I never thought about it.")  Now we're beginning to get somewhere, so I explained the source of the look. "The look trickled up from street kids and hip-hop celebrities, copying the look of prison inmates. Can you guess why prisoners go around with their pants hanging down?" "Uh, no," he continued to murmur, shrugging his shoulders. By now they was mildly interested.

"Historically, prisoners have their belts taken away from them, for two reasons. One, so they don't hang themselves with it. And two, so they can't escape. A man can't run very far, very fast, holding up his pants. Is that who you're trying to look like — a prison inmate?"
      "No, not at all," was the solid answer at this point.
      "So tell me, what do you think you communicate to the people who see you?" and he looked at me quizzically. "What are you saying about yourself?" I continued. "That you don't know how to pull up your pants and fasten a belt? That you're so brave 'cause you dare to wear them that low? That you're cool? That you're a little bit bad? Do you think people want to come in here and get gas from a guy who's a little bit bad? Where's this look going to get you in life?"
      "Uh, I don’t know, I guess never thought about it that way."
      "Well, start thinking." We all are individuals and there are dress code we follow and go by as sign of respect for ones self and ones appearance.