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.....Whether it be tapered or straight leg, jeans where never intended to be "baggy" from start...
Also, it wasn't until the 90's when gangsta rap became popular and rappers/ and urban youth adopted fashion from prison culture and eventually made it mainstream/popular to wear baggy......
Just as a point .... Prison aesthetics has always intersected with hip-hop culture. jam master jay rocked his Adidas without laces as an homage to the kniuckleheads who would spend the night in the box and get laces (fat laces usually) and belt back in the morning on the way out and would just pop on their kicks sans laces. Of course that was the early 80s ... Way before the west-cost mainstreaming of hip hop. Baggy jeans are probably more about kids (poor/working poor) who got hand me downs from older siblings and cousins that never fit well from jump and were forced to make it work along with parents buying oversize (cause you'll grow into it)....and of course that also predates the 90s as well.