In the news earlier this summer was the plan by officials in Wildwood to prohibit the wearing of pants low on the hips such that one’s underwear is visible. Quickly the matter became contentious, with questions about how it might be enforced, how low is too low, and so on.
More recently officials in the town of Penns Grove have moved to do the same, and the same questions have arisen.
Towns elsewhere in the U.S. have passed ordinances outlawing saggy pants, but there’s a better and easier way to do this.
Since the wearing of pants low on the hips so that underwear is visible is a teenage practice, the fastest and most effective way to curtail it is not to prohibit it, but to get old people to do it. Just get all the middle-aged and out-of-shape parents to wander around Wildwood and Penns Grove with their bloomers in view, and youth will abandon the practice in, um, the blink of an eye.
There is, of course, the risk that the cure will be worse than the disease...
