saggers

Singling out a specific form of dress for punishment, when that form of dress is overwhelmingly worn by members of a specific racial, religious, or ethnic group, is generally suspect unless it serves a neutral purpose which this does not, since the overwhelming majority of "saggers" aren't thugs and the overwhelming majority of thugs don't wear sagging pants.

Dicks: "This immoral self expression goes beyond freedom of expression." Ann Althouse 2008

Singling out a specific form of dress for punishment, when that form of dress is overwhelmingly worn by members of a specific racial, religious, or ethnic group, is generally suspect unless it serves a neutral purpose which this does not, since the overwhelming majority of "saggers" aren't thugs and the overwhelming majority of thugs don't wear sagging pants.

Dicks: "This immoral self expression goes beyond freedom of expression." Ann Althouse 2008

Dicks has ordered his officers to start arresting "saggers," as some aficionados of this sartorial style call themselves, on sight, threatening them with jail time and hefty fines for a fad he calls "immoral self expression."

Fashion Police: Flint Cracks Down on Sagging 2008

"saggers," piled up in a kiln, the doors are closed, and the fires are lighted.

Makers of Many Things Eva March Tappan 1892

So far, Dicks has only issued warnings to saggers, but he's made it clear that anyone with pants below the butt — whether or not they've got boxers underneath — is violating the city's disorderly conduct code, punishable by 93 days to a year in jail and fines of up to $500.

Fashion Police: Flint Cracks Down on Sagging 2008

He later told a local paper the style could give officers probable cause to search saggers.

Fashion Police: Flint Cracks Down on Sagging 2008

Of course, you saw the glaze — composed of various vitreous materials — laid over every article; and of course you witnessed the close imprisonment of each piece in saggers upon the separate system rigidly enforced by means of fine-pointed earthenware stilts placed between the articles to prevent the slightest communication or contact.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

If oil or coal is available, the additional costs of using saggers should be compared with the cost of clean-burning fuels.

4. Decisions 1993

The choice of fuel will determine whether products can be open-fired on shelves, or whether it is necessary to use saggers to protect the glaze from ash and contamination from dirty fuel.

3. Temperature ranges and requirements 1993

Electric kilns fire very evenly and do not require saggers.

3. Temperature ranges and requirements 1993