August 16, 2000 at 12:00 am
#30828
Sue27750
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Someone told me once that this was a jail thing. When you go to jail, you get prison-issued clothes that often don’t fit, plus they take away your belt (and shoelaces). So I heard it started as kind of an homage to kids’ older brothers and dads who had gone to jail, and obviously spread beyond that. I don’t know if this is true, but it sounds plausible. I have also wondered, though, if it bears some relationship to the little-kid cutesy aspect of rave culture – the idea being that a person who wears baggy clothes looks littler and younger and kind of sweet. So maybe it has something to do with that fetishization of childhood as well?
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