Fresh Loaf

In 2007, Atlanta Councilman C.T. Martin unsuccessfully proposed a much-debated law against saggy britches. Now he offers a resolution praising Morehouse College for setting a good example.

C.T. Martin

“The debate garnered international attention and discussion among youth and adults and has led to several states, municipalities and educational institutions to encourage their youth to dress appropriately.”

—    C.T. Martin, from his current resolution

“I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging pants is a waste of time. Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants.”

—    President-elect Barack Obama, in an MTV interview

“The use of profanity and the wearing of exposed underwear are not a part of the image of Morehouse College, its students, nor its distinguished alumni, which include actor Samuel Jackson and director Spike Lee…”

—    C.T. Martin, from his current resolution

“I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!”

—    Samuel L. Jackson, from Snakes on a Plane, 2006

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Forget the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Atlanta’s cantankerous Councilman C.T. Martin wants to start the Brotherhood of the Unsaggy Britches.

Nearly a year after a citizens’ task force on droopy trousers (we only wish we were making this up) decided that his proposed city-wide ban on visible knickers was one bone-headed idea, Martin is bouncing back with a new resolution commending Morehouse College for discouraging the “wearing of exposed underwear.”

Here’s a bit of the language of Martin’s measure:

WHEREAS, the Atlanta City Council established a task force to recommend whether the City of Atlanta, Georgia should amend its indecency code to make it illegal for exposure of one’s undergarments in a public place; and

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