OCEAN CITY – The potential to regulate indecent fashion choices on the Boardwalk was not included on the Mayor and Council agenda this week, as expected, but a passionate discussion about the resort and recent trends did take place.
A few weeks ago, Councilman Brent Ashley re-introduced the idea to institute legislation that is referred to as the “Droopy Pants Ordinance.” He had initially brought the concept up in 2011 when he presented the council research he had conducted finding a number of municipalities do not allow pants any longer than three inches from the tops of the hips exposing skin or undergarments.
Ashley broached the topic against last month when the City of Wildwood passed an ordinance establishing decency standards on its Boardwalk. The resort’s ordinance specifically states, “The waist-band of shorts, swim-trunks, pants and/or skirt shall not be worn more than 3 inches below the wearer’s waist, interpreted to mean at a level below the crest of the ilium, so as to expose either skin or garment underneath.”
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9 comments:
Call Brent crazy, bottom line is he sees there is a problem, while the Mayor and "new majority" want to deny it. Ocean City is very quickly declining, and any hope of the return to a "family resort" is quickly diminishing. Don't let them hold you down Brent!
family resort? I've been seeing drunks stumbling on the boardwalk for decades. Insane amount of drugs. OC is mislabeled as a family resort. It isn't. It just has that facade.
Family resort is nothing but an advertising slogan. Remember when they did the same for Vegas a few years back? It means nothing get, over it.
Out in public with your a$$ or boxers hanging out of your pants is not a fashion statement.
It is a sign---a sign of that person's stupidity.
Single parent home, or grandparents raising them....this is what you get.
Are they going to make bikinis illegal too? Why are those any less offensive than seeing someone's boxer shorts? It's already illegal to let your actual buttcrack hang out.
"Are they going to make bikinis illegal too?" In certain cases, they should be...
These droopy pants guys might decide on a belt if they realize the trend started in prison to advertise that one was willing to..how shall i say it delicately...bend over...
Our we going to make visible tattoos illegal too? After all Leviticus was pretty clear what an abomination tattoos are.
no one with any weight in their sack?
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