"I’m not the fashion police and I do realize there are societal changes," Mayor Ernest Troiano said in an interview. "But in the same breath, it’s called underwear. It’s not outerwear."

Sagging, as the trend is called, began in prisons and spread via hip-hop artists to a wider audience of teenagers in the 1990s. Troiano said 95 per cent of the people who have contacted him since the law took effect July 9 have expressed support.

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