Why are teens wearing clothes with the tags still attached?

I work at a high school and have noticed African American kids are keeping the tags on their clothes and making sure the tags stick out for others to see. One tag I remember showed a shirt was for sale at JCPenney for $36.00. I have also seen many others, but don%26#039;t recall any specifics.





What is the deal? I don%26#039;t understand this trend. Someone please try to explain it to me before I start asking the kids if they would like me to cut the tags off their clothes since it looks like they forgot to do so.





Thank you!

Why are teens wearing clothes with the tags still attached?
Well I don%26#039;t know about tags on clothes, but I%26#039;ve seen them on hats which just means you just bought the hat and you%26#039;re not cheap also known as fresh. Also to show that the hat is new, not a hand-me-down. And to prove that it%26#039;s a certain expensive brand or something like that. =]
Reply:i have never seen that on a girl before. Maybe on a guy. They think its cool.
Reply:Hahaha wow thats not a trend. I don%26#039;t know why people do that though.
Reply:Maybe they are trying to be cool or rebellious, to show how much they paid for a shirt, and maybe they are planning on returning it after they wear it. Who knows....
Reply:i live in canarsie, brooklyn and its just a trend thing thats happening with african american people.





i honestly have no clue why. but its probably gunna go away. a couple of months ago it was the i love ny t shirts with jeans and multicolored matching nikes.





now apparently its wearing articles of clothing with the tags still on them.





i havent seen that yet though, but ive seen a lot of people wearing sneakers with the tags on them.





which appalls me but hey whatever floats their boat right?
Reply:ok never seen that EVER unless they forgot and if they haven%26#039;t then they%26#039;re just retarded cause thats not even cute
Reply:they forgot 2.
Reply:wow, I%26#039;ve never heard of that %26quot;trend%26quot; before. A lot of the guys at my school leave the gold stickers that come on their hats on them. but I%26#039;ve never heard of clothing tags



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