Back when Justin Bieber first started wearing
drop-crotch trousers in November, we did our best to convince him to
ditch the unflattering trend with this open letter.
But we should have realized the quickest way to get a
teenage boy to do something is to tell him not to do it. That’s why it
doesn’t surprise us that the Biebs has been all about this look lately,
wearing the questionable style nonstop over the past two weeks.
He’s strutted around in them while shopping, making
appearances, out at a club — and it even appears that a pair of
tight-at-the-calves, loose-at-the-crotch white harem hip hop pants are part of the singer’s official tour uniform. (He’s worn them to all his concerts in the U.K. so far.)
And while Bieber is loyal to this one silhouette, he’s
not picky about the color, print or style, sporting a blue canvas pair
one day, a purple cheetah pair the next, then continuing the streak
with a leather design he’s clearly quite taken with.
The more he wears the bboy harem pants, the more confused we become. Bieber can’t possibly like the way the harem pants men look, right? So he must be putting them on for some other reason. Here are some explanations we came up with:
•One of the last outfits Selena Gomez saw him in before the two split included a pair of these perplexing pants for men. This is his way of reminding her that despite all the stories, he’s still the same guy she used to be in love with.
•Being the fashion-forward dude that he is, he’s noticed
that a skinnier leg is en vogue with men, but the allover supertight
style isn’t compatible with his dance moves. So he had to find a type
of pant that combined flexibility with fashion. Et voilá: the
drop-crotch pant.
•He’s trying to become a spokesperson for the Association of People With Long Torsos and Short Legs.
