We associate it with idleness, weekends, at times when you hang out without guilt. However, this piece checks all the boxes of the perfect summer clothing: light, cool, flattering.
There are the clothes we wear to go out, those we keep for the house, and between the two, a blurred area. This in-between is full of unjustly confined clothes inside, because they do not have the right status. Too simple, too connoted, too personal. The most frustrating in history is that there are sometimes real nuggets. Parts which, on paper, meet all the conditions to please, but which remain trapped in a clothing label that we never really question.
At first glance, this garment is not revolutionary. It does not come from a fashion house, does not cost 400 euros and was not popularized by a pop star or spotted in the streets of Copenhagen during Fashion Week. And yet, on Tiktok, he has millions of views. It is worn with open shirts, retro glasses and white sneakers, but, even today, very little. Indeed, we are there facing a room which, in the collective imagination, belongs to the domain of intimate. And who, as such, has no place in public space.
This piece is pajama shorts, or man underpants. The one we sometimes sting in his guy, the one who is perfect when it is more than 30 degrees.
However, it is not for lack of trying to normalize it. As early as 2019, creators like JW Anderson or Jacquemus slipped it into their spring-summer parades. More recently, brands like Casablanca or Ernest W. Baker stylized it in summer tailor, with noble materials and controlled prints. Even the general public brands got started: Zara, Uniqlo, H&M.
Too risky. Too intimate. Too associated with the bed. In reality, he has everything good. Light, often in cotton, wide without being informed, cool without effort. If the brands have taken the fold, why not do the same?
