To really get in the mood for today’s post about saggy pants you need some music to put you in the right mood. Here are Waylon and Willie singing Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys.

In Winston-Salem, North Carolina they held a parade against saggy-pant wearing youth. Yes you read that right, it's sort of a fashion statement parade against offensive clothing. Follow the link to read the story. 

Legal cases about clothing aren't new. Here in Iowa we've gone all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court arguing about what school children should be permitted to wear. You may remember Tinker vs Des Moines. Full Opinion.

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969) was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools. The Tinker test is still used by courts today to determine whether a school's disciplinary actions violate students' First Amendment rights.

And just last week a judge in the Waterloo area ruled against a school disctrict that created a more formal dress code for school children. The public is wondering about what the Constitution says that is allowing Judges to tell us how to dress and who we can marry. Maybe the public will have to pick up a book about the U.S. Constitution.

• Judge: School's Dress Code Went Too Far ...with its dress code. from KCCI.com - Local News - Oct 22, 2010 (6 days ago)
• Judge rejects school dress code ...with a dress code, a state judge has ruled. The rules were created to limit clothing identifying gangs. from DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS - Oct 22, 2010 (6 days ago)

But let's get back to the saggy bottom boys. There is actually a history behind sagging pants and the fad that followed. It all started in prisons where belts aren’t allowed and losing weight made the prisoner’s pant's sag. Droopy pants, saggy pants or sags, call it what ye may; it’s all about a fad started by prisoners.

Man charged with violating a Riviera Beach, Florida saggy pants law that fines first time offenders $150 or community service. Repeat offenders can get 60 days in jail, which by-the-way is where they would be considered fashionable. Would that be like sentencing a chocaholic to a See's candy store to do community service? A video is available by following the above link. But hold on or should I say hold em up, because a county judge ruled the ban on saggy pants is unconstitutional. Hmmmm then what does that say about swearing in public or other public disorderly conduct laws?

And who can forget the career New York criminal that fell to his death after shooting the occupants of an apartment and trying to escape only to find himself tripping over his sags and falling off the fire escape. And I recall California law enforcement nabbing punks because they weren’t able to outrun the cops because of their sagging pants. Today's post was from a post I read written by Jonathan Turley from Res Ispa Loquitur.

I can hear the new Constitutional warning: You have the right to remain saggy, but anything you show can and will be used against you in a Court of  Fashion.

My only question: Are skinny pants and saggy pants worn by people that don’t work for a living? Maybe the answer to unemployment is in the pants we wear. The answer to unemployment is no further than Duluth, Duluth Trading Company. (More important, is it "further" or "farther"?)

If Droopy Pants can be illegal then what about skinny pants? And shirts that pull up in the back as plumbers stoop to fix a pipe under the sink.