Why do some people wear such odd clothing, low-ride, shirts down to their knees, etc.?
Why do you wear the clothes you do? We all put on what makes us feel better about ourselves. The people that wear the very baggy clothing style, in their society/culture/mind-set, they look good and feel good in those clothes. Perhaps they like the image it portrays, or doesn’t like how people think of that style now and wear to it try to portray a different image. Everyone is different and in a society with a set of common rules we must use our clothing style as a way to define ourselves to others. I do know that the history behind that style was not to look ‘gangster’ as people said below. It was poor people who couldn’t afford new cloths. They would wear hand me downs that they’d have to grow into. If you think about it in that context and then where you see this style worn, it makes sense that it was eventually mainstreamed. Also, it is not necessarily the clothing style that might show being a ‘gangster’ (a term that used to only be used with the mafia, not street gangs) but that
