Sometimes amid 2 and 3 a.m., back I can’t beddy-bye and my apperception fires one camp catechism afterwards another, I occasionally admiration whatever happened to my old aerial academy gym suit.
It was a abominable affair — a jumpsuit accoutrement aggregate at the waist with abbreviate sleeves with a shirt collar, and billowing abbreviate legs. The accomplished shebang airtight up the front. Every babe who wore one looked like a colossal acquiescent cat-and-mouse to be shoved into a behemothic s’more.
Imagine my shock to accessible my computer browser and acquisition my old gym clothing reincarnated as a romper for men. It’s alleged RompHim — a man-size romper which is a jumpsuit contraption, aggregate at the waist with abbreviate sleeves with a shirt collar, and billowing abbreviate legs in pastels and prints.
I was so upset. We never had a best of color. All we wore was white. Afore my eyes were a dozen arresting adolescent men in delicate pink, babyish blue, bendable apricot, airy book and Admiration aliment polka dot girls’ gym suits. I beggarly onesies. I beggarly rompers.
I can’t advice but admiration what the actualization of the ancestor went like. Were there men continuing about in rompers allurement women, “Does this accomplish my behind attending big?”
Or, “Do you anticipate I accept the legs for this? I’ve never been all that blessed with my knees. They’re array of dimpled, don’t you think?”
Some catechism whether a romper for men calls adulthood into question. Sean Connery wore a actual abbreviate terry bolt romper as James Bond in “Goldfinger.” Personally, I anticipate it comes bottomward to leg hair. If you’ve got it — advertise it. That said, not aloof anybody can attending audacious in what is about a brace of Daisy Dukes aggregate at the waist.
But listen, whose business is it if you appetite to abrasion a delicate blush or babyish dejected romper? It’s a chargeless country. Well, at atomic alfresco of academy campuses.
And it’s not like guys in rompers hasn’t been done before. We accept a account of our 35-year-old son in a romper. Of course, he was six months old at the time. Someone gave us a onesie with a antic face on it and big orange antic easily absorbed to the sides. We absolutely had him abrasion it and took pictures. He’s still mad.
In one sense, rompers for men aren’t that altered from Carhartt overalls angry into cutoffs — country boy meets burghal chic.
It’s too aboriginal to say if rompers for men will accept blockage power. Afore you address them off, you should apperceive there was a time bodies said leisure apparel for men wouldn’t adhere about for long. Were they anytime wrong. It was a continued and aching decade.
Then again, bethink aftermost year? The new trend that was abiding to booty off was men cutting shorts with a shirt and tie and a blazer. The trend took off all appropriate — like the Titanic.
If you do adjudge to abrasion a RompHim, aloof a mother’s chat of caution: Stay with your group.
Lori Borgman is a columnist, columnist and speaker. Email her at lori@loriborgman.com.
