How low can they go?

A Louisiana legislator has introduced a bill banning anyone from “wearing his pants below his waist and thereby exposing his skin or intimate clothing.” The bill is aimed at teenagers’ “disrespectful, obscene, and unprofessional” fashion, including baggy pants and low-rise jeans, said legislator Derrick Shepherd. But local ACLU director Joe Cook said the bill’s broad language would give police a problem. “I can think of a lot of workers, plumbers, who are working and expose their buttocks,” Cook said.

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