I don't know when gray sweatpants became the dream love pants of Chinese boys.
Whether on the subway, on the road or on a college campus, it has become the item with the highest crash rate, and it is even rumored that "gray sweatpants are men's black silk.".
What the hell is going on???
Every guy has a pair of gray sweatpants, if not, two. Throughout the year, gray sweatpants topped the list of male consumers' favorite pants.
It appears in the OOTD of the Little Red Book blogger, and also in the posts of the tiger poker straight man asking for recommendations.
On college campuses, boys in gray sweatpants can form a series of looks, but you look down and oh, you can wear them yourself.
In the hipster neighborhoods such as Sanlitun, a pair of Thom Browne striped sweatpants is synonymous with "trend sense" + "not bad money", although you can't tell if the gray sweatpants guy who is walking towards you is wearing FAKE or not.
The same star, wear it is the most fashionable cub in Sanlitun
When some people are still exposing their ankles for the sake of being cool in winter, they are nagged by their mothers all day long that they must have arthritis, and others have mastered the fashion code of "the soil is the extreme is the tide", and together with Kanye, they have stuffed the large sweatpants and pants legs into the socks, so that the ankles that are not slender have swollen and swollen.
The popularity of gray sweatpants, like the wearing of socks and trouser legs, can be called metaphysics. Because rationally and objectively from all angles, it is not the most ideal pants for men.
Are gray sweatpants really fashionable? Fashion emperor Carl Lagerfeld famously said, "Sweatpants are a sign of failure". In the eyes of many fashion people, when a man starts wearing sweatpants, he has given up on himself.
Even in the world of sweatpants, gray sweatpants are not excellent. Most boys will choose loose versions when choosing sweatpants, black sweatpants are fine, but fat gray sweatpants will really make the height of the already not rich worse.
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Are gray sweatpants easy to wear? This is true. Once a boy finds the most comfortable one from the ocean of gray sweatpants, he may not want to change his pants for the rest of his life.
A netizen believes that men's love for gray sweatpants also has regional factors.
"Ever since I came to Beijing last year to study and spent the winter, I've started wearing sweatpants like autumn pants. Beijing winter smog sand scraping up, mud smoke sticks to you, walking on the road you unconsciously stick a lot of soil on your body.
I went through my white pants and found that after a few days it was gray and turned gray (darker).
I wore black pants and found that after a few days it was gray and turned gray (the color became lighter).
In any case, you are very upset in both cases, and you have to wash your pants. However, if you wear gray pants, even if you are stained with ash, you are still gray, and the judgment is high. ”
Comfort, dirt-resistant, versatile, these are all reasons why gray sweatpants are so popular, but if you think that gray sweatpants stop there, you can underestimate them.
When we searched for "gray sweatpants" on the Internet, we were surprised to find that gray sweatpants conquered not only men, but also many women.
Some girls said that when they looked at the boys wearing gray sweatpants, they understood for the first time what it was like for boys to see girls wearing black silk. Other girls' hobbies are watching boys in gray sweatpants dance on TikTok. Star-chasing girls called on the majority of men to wear more gray sweatpants.
Brother Aidou, who wears gray sweatpants, practices dancing
After some serious surfing on the internet, we finally found the popular password for gray sweatpants.
The reason why gray sweatpants can attract men of different orientations, in addition to exposing the abs and waistline like all sweatpants in the world, is also an absolute advantage: "enlargement".
Compared with the dark version, the gray sweatpants are more masculine and can outline the key parts of the man, which is infinitely reverie.
American actor and singer Nick Jonas
Although everyone likes to compare gray sweatpants to black silk, the sexual charm of gray sweatpants is actually quite obscure.
It is more like the cream of the nose tip of Hanzo Forest, the blue dress of a chestnut sachet, and the white pullover sweatshirt of Igawa Riyu, which is pure and harmless on the surface and full of color on the inside.
"Pure Desire Ceiling" Ichirusa Kuri and Riyuki Igawa
The desire for gray sweatpants is more like the desire of sports students. It is reminiscent of a boy with messy hair who gets out of bed and grabs a pair of gray sweatpants to put on his body, which is a kind of sexiness full of sweat and sloppiness.
Compared to boys who only wear a pair of underwear and show their muscles without reservation, the gray sweatpants that are "half-covered by the lute" are more reminiscent and curious.
This is not our nonsense. Black sweatpants are still just simple sweatpants, but "male bodhisattva", "crotch-watching cat" and "edge-rubbing man" have long become the associated words of gray sweatpants in contemporary contexts. That's why gray sweatpants are short and fat, but they are still among the top in the sweatpants world.
At this point, we finally understand why dancing in gray sweatpants has become the traffic password of many TikTok boys, which is about the "twist" of the sexual transformation.
Going back in time, the wind in gray sweatpants has been blowing for six or seven years. Not only at home, but also in foreign countries, boys have long been aware of the "obvious" effect of gray sweatpants.
If you search for gray sweatpants on the Urban Dictionary, it will tell you that gray sweatpants are "the pants that you should wear when you hang with your girl ;)", and even shows examples of screaming conversations between women about gray sweatpants:
Lacy: Did you see Aiden wearing those sweatpants!?
Kerry: OMG yes, he did it for us to see!
Entry for gray sweatpants on the Urban Dictionary
Foreign boys also set each fall and winter as a "grey sweatpants season," when temperatures get colder and boys can finally hug their beloved gray sweatpants without hesitation.
As early as 2015, BuzzFeed published an article titled "Gray sweatpants are the most important wear item for men". But in fact, the connection between gray sweatpants and sexual tension may date back to earlier.
Nichole Perkins, a black-American writer, recalls that she once went to a website called BlackPlanet, an online community of African Americans that launched in 2001. On the website, many boys will post photos of themselves hanging out in gray sweatpants, and there will be girls at the bottom who comment, "Have you also seen what I saw?" Other girls would reply "I see."
In this way, gray sweatpants have become a way to quietly show sexual charm. Perkins believes it's the safest way to show off their masculinity without fear of being stigmatized by society, and that "men of different sizes — even if they don't have the same stature as Chris Hemsworth (the avengers' Thor) — can get the attention they want." ”
On Twitter, #greysweatpantschallenge (#灰色运动裤挑战) has been a hot topic.
In the early days, boys were just keen to show off the ideal sweatpants they bought, and then gradually evolved into wearing gray sweatpants to show off their size.
The earliest grey sweatpants challenge was simple
But in 2016, things were moving in a strange direction.
Under the topic of #greysweatpantschallenge, more and more strange things are starting to appear in the crotches of boys. Bananas, pythons, pet dogs, suitcases, flat-screen TVs, Christmas trees, musical instruments, humanoid standing signs and even... roommate. It's a lot of tricks.
Pulling the conversation back, according to data from global fashion search platform Lyst, sales of gray sweatpants are increasing year by year. 2019 is a 14% year-on-year increase over 2018, and another 38% increase in 2020, and the search peak for gray sweatpants is from September to December and March to April every year.
In a sense, gray sweatpants have a great meaning.
Men don't have to spend thousands of dollars to pursue the elite sexiness of suits, they only need to spend a few hundred dollars to buy enough gray sweatpants to wear in autumn and winter.
The folds and shades of gray sweatpants can show the strengths and cover up the disadvantages as much as possible, and one foreign boy described it as a man's lift-up bra. Girls may need to buy lift-up bras, but which boy doesn't have a pair of gray sweatpants in his wardrobe. It is precisely because it seems so ordinary that it is so sexy.
Another interesting phenomenon is that men also experience how women used to feel when they were objectified.
When they put a photo of themselves wearing gray sweatpants on the Internet, anyone can feel free to comment, praise or spit, such as the comment area will always appear a sentence "Stuffed socks?" ”
Author: Floatingstone
The image comes from the Internet