Can We Ban "Prison-Pants" For Being Offensive?

I'm watching the Golf Pre-game show on the Golf Channel, and they are showing a "teaser" for a Feherty (talk show) episode with Bubba Watson, and they are riding in the #1 car from Dukes of Hazzard, the TV show, the one that has a Confederate flag on the roof.

Watson was supposed to drive that during the opening ceremony of some major race - I can't remember which one, not being a NASCAR fan - but he was told that he could not do so because the Confederate flag on the top was offensive.

Doubtless due to its connotation of slavery before the Civil War.

And this got me to thinking.

Why can't we get "prison pants" banned for the same reason?

You have all seen "prison pants" even if you don't know what they are - most teenagers these days wear them, not just the African-Americans or Latinos who started the trend.

Apparently, when you are sent to jail, you are given clothes to wear but you are not given a belt. So if your clothes were too big, and usually they were, they'd hang off your butt and look horrible.

At some point in the 1990s, maybe even the 1980s, people in "the hood" started wearing these pants to show, apparently, that they'd been through their "rite of passage" of going to jail. It gave them street cred.

So nowadays we've got teenagers, and even grown men and the occasional grown woman, wearing these pants that are belted in underneath their buttocks. So we get a fine view of their underwear. Or as Seinfeld said to George Costanza about Kramer's decision to go "commando" - there's nothing between us and him but a thin layer of gabardine.

People who wear this kind of clothing look stupid. They can't walk without holding up their pants with one hand. And of course, they can't get any kind of a - reputable - job wearing clothes like that.

And of course there is the connotation of "prison pants."

And because of that connotation with prison, surely those pants are offensive on those grounds, and should be banned? Well, not so much banned...as clothing manufacturers who make them should be assessed harsh penalties for doing so. Let them still make the pants, but bankrupt them if they try to do so. (Yes, that's an ironic echo of President Obama's commment on his destruction of coal plants - "Oh, we'll still let them do it, but we'll have so many regulations in place that we'll bankrupt them if they try."

Frankly, I'd say banning "prison pants" - and the mentality wearing them engenders - is a much more urgent necessity than banning coal factories.