The mayor of Atlanta recently started a dress code war against baggy beltless pants...you know,those ones that flash your ralph or gucci boxers...and sometimes more stuff too!
Already,minority rights groups are jumping on this as discrimination against young African-Americans.The major fear is that this may provide legislation to target a select group unfairly.Well the truth of the matter is that this code is now vogue,and young guys from black to white to hispanic are mainstreaming it.(see DJ Khaled,TI,Justin Timberlake and Sean Paul).
It might surprise many to learn that the origin of this curious dressing can be traced to the prisons.I have unconfirmed reports that the craze started with young men released from jail where belts were banned to discourage suicide attempts.In certain groups in the hood,doing time for your first crime is celebrated as an important milestone(listen closely to the lyrics of sean kingston's hit track "beautiful girls").
I haven't been to Africa in a while but I am dead sure boys are wearing these things on Lagos streets by now.I have made it clear to my son this is unacceptable in my house.
You know,it's funny how heroes turn to zeroes very quickly.I heard Fashola's Government may be at loggerheads with young Lagos chics these days for his strong stance against revealing dressing.Several College girls and daughters of 'big men' have recently been arrested for indecent dressing...sometimes treated as prostitutes.
Whatever my personal reservations about these outrageous dress codes,I strongly believe it's wrong for any government to legislate for or against the dressing mode for its citizens..as long as such dressing does not directly offend other law abiding citizens.Now it is another matter what different people consider offensive dressing...I don't think we can come to a reasonable concessus on that one!
OMC
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment