APPARENTLY guys’ undies, boxer shorts to be more precise, are currently a fashion item for girls. So what? I hear you say. Like, you’ve been wearing your partner’s (clean) boxers around the house for ages, but I’m not talking about around the house.
They are now being deemed as suitable outerwear; as in for outside the house.
Now before you run out and purchase a new pair for every day of the week, consider this.
Do you really want to to wear them out on the street? And to be honest, where would you wear them? To work? No, I don’t think so. The gym? Okay, you might get away with that. Would you do a trip to the supermarket in them?
Whaaaat? You would? Okay. Well, to each their own I suppose. But it would almost be like going out in your pyjamas.
Okay fine, so you’ve done that too, I don’t have to know.
But personally, I can’t really think of a less flattering item for outerwear. I mean, they are underwear when it’s all said and done, and while they might come in a vast array of colours and designs now, they are still undies that look like undies no matter what kind of fashion statement they’re moonlighting as, and that’s that.
Undies.
And what kind of shoes would you wear with them anyway?
I have no idea where this one came from but I’m guessing it’s one of those more bizarre flash-in-the-pan fashion moments that will have its fifteen minutes, grab a few fashion tragics, and then fall off the radar.
Hopefully forever. I’m glad my daughter has grown beyond the age of having to have the latest clothing trends (or her life would be over) because guys’ boxers for outerwear is a trend she would have had to have done without, demise or no.
In my defence though, I coped admirably with her black nail polish and black lipstick, and with my sons wearing their pants precariously low on their hips, exposing their undies to the world. I know, right? But it still would have been a big fat no to daughter heading out the door in guys’ boxer shorts.
Okay, so maybe I’m being a little unfair and those opting to wear them as outerwear will really rock them, but try as I might, I’m just not seeing it.
And I really have been trying. When I first heard about this one, I sat back and tried to visualise girls trotting around doing their daily things in a pair of men’s boxer shorts and looking good, but the vision was just too wobbly.
I couldn’t get past the 'undies' thing. It was bit like when it was some kind of fashion trend to wear clothing that flashed plenty of bra. Remember that one? Dresses and tops with a neckline so low that most of your bra became part of the look. Admittedly, it was supposed to be a nice lacy bra but still, it was a bra.
And now it’s all about guys’ undies.
Look, I doubt it’s going to go mainstream. I have yet to see any parading down the main street or sashaying around the supermarket, and I won’t comment if I do. But still…
Undies.
