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There are some things I’ve never understood in life: how fax machines work, why no one has made an OJ Simpson biopic starring Denzel Washington, and more recently, why girls insist on wearing rompers.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not your typical dude who is ignorant to women’s style. I long worked for a women’s fashion brand, I read Man Repeller and The Cut, and I always watch The Devil Wears Prada when it’s on HBO because that movie straight kills it. So, if anything, I think I have the established credibility to justifiably weigh in.
So let me just plead this: stop wearing rompers.
I mean, even the name “romper” is brutal. It’s the least sexy name you could attach to a piece of clothing. Romp literally means, “play roughly and energetically.” Like I’m not trying to play with an obstreperous puppy right now. I’m trying to scope babes.
I get it. Taylor Swift wore one at the VMAs and all of the sudden it became acceptable to wear to every brunch, music festival, and walk in the damn park. The girls that I discussed rompers with stated, “They’re in style,” and “I think they’re awesome,” but really didn’t do much convincing as to why rompers should be worn. After all, you can’t tell me these things are at all functional.
Don’t you have to take your romper completely off when you’re going to the bathroom? What happens at Lollapalooza when you strip yourself to pee and you accidentally drop it in the porta-potty leaving you with the decision to either go straight naked or wear a single piece of cloth covered in shit to Alabama Shakes? Furthermore, if you break the seal, aren’t you fucked? The inherent laziness of wearing a romper (which is essentially just a shirt and shorts sewn together) is rendered useless once you have to go through the effort of getting dressed and undressed after every mimosa.
It looks like you’re in limbo somewhere between wearing a fully-loaded diaper and being a 6-year-old girl on the playground. The combination of it billowing while simultaneously riding up your ass creates a “she definitely shouldn’t be wearing that” effect that baffles everyone you come across. Just dress like a grown-up for once. I don’t want to take a giant baby out to dinner.
I’m not trying to push any kind of stereotype or social constraint on anyone, because I’m just a run-of-the-mill dude with an unathletic build and twigs for arms, but these things are just blatantly unflattering. Rompers on women are about as flattering as board shorts are on me. Hear me out: my lower body mismatches size-wise with my upper body and I’d have to imagine this is the case with females as well. Whether you buy a small, medium, large, or whatever, rompers aren’t one-size-fits-all. So unless you find a diamond in the rough that somehow looks perfect on you, you’re just going to look like you’re wearing an ill-fitting diaper suit that you stole off an oversized toddler.
With that being said, rompers do have their plus sides. In an anonymous Gchat conversation, a friend of mine stated, “Well, they do showcase the legs and I can’t hate on the all-in-one removal process.” I have to agree, but his compliments ended there as he originally lead with, “ROMPERS ARE AWFUL.” At the end of the day, we can all agree: they are, indeed, awful.
I never thought I’d say this, but I’d prefer you wear those sun-faded jean short cutoffs that make it look like you constantly have an everlasting wedgie. Now I just want to send hate mail to every fashion and lifestyle blogger out there for making this look acceptable. Instead I’ll just be the guy laughing smugly because he doesn’t even have to take his pants off to pee. .
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Amen. Too many ladies wearing rompers, not enough ladies wearing sundresses.
Rompers are to the fashion world what throw pillows are to the furniture world: Girls don’t have a legitimate reason for having them, but can’t live without them, they’re annoying, and they offer no functionality.
Got a lecture on throw pillows from my team at work the other day – apparently I just don’t understand
Hilarious–I think like much of fashion girls wear rompers for other girls opinions, not the guys.
Another thing, so the url is: “/stop-wearing-rompers-2/”…
In my mind you had a much more scathing op-ed on rompers but decided it was too much and had to cut some if it down. We can handle stop-wearing-rompers-1, Will–I promise.
I’m keeping my NSFW catalogue to myself for immediate release after I get assassinated.
I am always genuinely curious what guys are thinking about what we wear. You should do a “Summer Trends” article and have the different PGP writers weigh in.
Not to mention they give every girl that wears them a case of “90s mom butt”, much like high-wasted jeans
Those jeans must be having quite the night.
That OJ/Denzel biopic is what should be taken away from here. Someone make it happen
I tip my girly hat to you. Rompers are ridiculous. Can we add jumpsuits in there as well? Especially the ones with the billowy legs that end in a tight cuff at the ankle. Reminds me of Inuyasha’s pants.
I like em ladies. They’re different and breezy. In functionality terms, they’re less clothing.
Will, could you provide your thoughts on the below functional romper configuration?
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Get that baby photo out of my sight.
Meanwhile in Austin, Dorno has been, “busy,” in his office with the door locked since this baby pic went up.
Totally unrelated to rompers, but every time I finish watching The Devil Wears Prada, my immediate thought is, so she glowed up and then threw it all away for…what? That movie should end like twenty minutes earlier.
… “Every” time?