What is the right way to sag?
People also prefer to wear gym shorts between their jogging pants and underwear to help set their sag into place. Jeans can be set into place with a belt or by finding the right measurement of waist to fit around your upper thighs.
Some types of jeans like joggers make use of elastic waistbands that gather and bunch around the waist to prevent them from sagging. The scrunchy elastic will ensure that the pants hug the hips while sagging, which will keep them up, but may have a tendency to rest a little higher up.
First, to get technical, that tightening phenomenon is called “consolidation shrinkage.” Think of denim fibers as a long chain. When fabric is agitated during the wash and heat cycles, it causes fibers to break their bonds so the cloth gets smaller.
If you wear low-quality jeans, they may slide down. The problem with low-quality jeans is that they aren’t made with the same level of attention and detail as high-quality jeans. As a result, they may have too much or too little fabric around the waistline, which may cause them to slide down when worn.
Skinny jeans are denim or denim-blended pants that have a tight fit, especially from the knee to the ankle. Since skinny jeans fit snugly at the knee, many people who wear them find that after a few hours of bending down or walking, their jeans start to look saggy in the knee.
You have four options with skinny jeans…you can scrunch them, cuff them, tuck them or hem them. If you leave them long, you can scrunch, cuff and tuck, although there’s something about tucking that I think looks a little awkward without the bottom seam (I’ve done it, and never really liked it).
During the 2000s, many North American local governments, school systems, transit agencies, and even airlines passed laws and regulations against the practice of wearing sagging pants, although no state or federal laws have been enacted banning the practice. Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants.
Find the right place for the jeans to sit. Decide exactly how low you want your jeans to fit. Pull the jeans on and then tug them down a little at a time or let them slouch naturally until they come to rest in a natural, comfortable spot.
If the jeans fit tight in the waist when you put them on after washing, you are reintroducing tension and the jeans usually loosen up a bit after an hour or so. In general, you can expect up to 3-4% shrinkage, which on a pair of jeans with a 30” inseam would mean shrinking about 1” – 1 ¼” in the length.
It’s actually due to the fiber content of those babies. Most “stretch denim” is a combination of cotton and spandex, versus traditional denim, which is 100 percent cotton. And that spandex–while curve-hugging in the beginning–loses its elasticity over time, causing that awful sag right below your derrière.
If the Jeans Are Too Tight Spray them with lukewarm water, and then lay the jeans out on the floor. Stand on each leg of the jeans, bend down, and use your hands to manually pull and stretch the jeans while they are wet. Feel free to pull them in any and all directions, reapplying the lukewarm water as needed.
For an extreme sag you will need to pull your pants so that your butt is completely exposed as you make the front of your pants slightly higher. Tighten your belt diagonally so it’s just above your thighs in the front and below your butt in the back.
