Saggy Pants Bans on Upswing as Second NJ Beach Town Mull Restrictions


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Saggy pants bans touch tourism and also people wanting to just walk or ride around the nation's cities in their everyday lives. Why is it that some legislators and their constituents have such distaste for others who don't look or dress the way they do? The bans do indeed have racist overtones.

As Wildwood goes, so goes the nation -- when it comes to the resort town's saggy pants law. After the New Jersey shore town banned saggy pants on its boardwalk in what supposedly was a bid to draw tourists after Hurricane Sandy with a family friendly atmosphere, similar prohibitions have come under co