Grown women have no business wearing rompers. (Or bodysuits or jumpsuits or one-pieces or whatever the fuck you call these things.) No one out of diapers should be wearing them. It's like feetie pajamas--they only ever look okay on kids and adults wearing them borders on creepy.
Never mind that they look awful. Never mind that they turn you into a solid and formless block of colour or pattern. Never mind that nobody comes close to looking okay in one unless they're really tall and really skinny, which almost nobody is. Never mind that they make you look short-waisted and short-legged, even if you are tall and skinny. Never mind that having a torso even slightly longer or shorter than clothing manufacturers thought you would have means it will drag at your shoulders and ride up your crotch and ass all at the same time.
Let's just focus on their major shortcoming: they're not practical.
Remember the 90s and early 2000s? Overalls were back in style. Casualness that bordered on aesthetically reckless was totally cool. Except that no one looks good in overalls for the same reasons nobody looks good in a romper. And worse, too, because they were loose-fitting all over and were a solid mass of a single colour. They also suffer the same major shortcoming in terms of their practicality, which is that you have to plan pretty far in advance when you need to use the toilet. I don't like having to almost completely undress when I have to go. It makes me feel exposed and if you happen to have some kind of urgent digestive or urinary need, things could end badly for you. I had a pair of overalls when they were popular and quickly discovered this problem, which was a sufficiently big one to put me off of wearing a one-piece anything ever again. A subheading under this category is that you have to hold all the discarded fabric up unless you want to contract bubonic plague or something from a dirty bathroom floor that hasn't seen a mop since before you were born.
I don't know if you would have to hold a romper up off the floor, but you still have to take all your clothes off. Speaking for myself, if I need to pee I gradually lose control of all my faculties one by one until I can relieve myself and my fine motor skills always go first. Not really an ideal situation to be in when you have to hold it while you negotiate buckles and buttons. It's the nature of fashion trends to be cumbersome and impractical, a carryover from a time at which wearing certain kinds of clothing was a status symbol based not on their cost but on the fact that they prevented you from easily doing all but the simplest of tasks for yourself. It was a way of showing--or at least giving the impression--that you could afford not to do any work.
People just need to stop wearing them. If you are not a farmer or a mechanic or an extra in a movie set during the Great Depression, you have no excuse for wearing one. Even with all their embellishments and cut to a better fit, it still amounts to wearing clothes associated with infants. Which is actually pretty weird at best and at worst really, really creepy-looking.
Just, stop. For the love of small fluffy kittens, please stop wearing them. You look terrible dressed that way.
Also, while looking for a picture of adult rompers to post here, I noticed that all the top hits were from people talking about why rompers suck and shouldn't be worn.
I guess on the plus side it means I'm hardly the only person to hate them this much.
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