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When we thought that going out without pants – see shorts so short that they look like underwear, the so-called current 'no pants' – was the finish, the last of the latest, the underpants arrive as a new alternative to the so summery miniskirts or Bermudas.

And you have not read wrong, we have said underpants -whether boxers, slips or boxer trunks, the model and fit do not matter-. Because if we pay attention to what our eyes have seen about Bella Hadid or Kylie Jenner, the 'fashion insiders' in recent fashion weeks and even the catwalks (Miu Miu has this men's undergarment in a female version in its spring-summer 2023 collection), men's underpants will be the new women's shorts this summer. And, beware, that this statement has its 'mainstream' counterpoint: even Zara has in its summer catalog some model ...

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From the inside out, from the 2000s to today

Reasons apart from the indisputable comfort of intimate clothing and that there are trends that are sometimes unpredictable, that underpants become a 'ready' garment to take out on the street there are.

One of them lies in that fashion is cyclical and that we are fully involved in the revival of fashion of the 90s and 2000s, today renamed Y2K, which includes the return of the pants of very low waist and, with them, leaving in sight the waistband of the underpants or the elastic of the waist of the panties. Who does not remember how Calvin Klein and his underwear were a 'boom' in those decades, always in sight?

Kate Moss at a '90s Calvin Klein parade with panties (or underpants?) over her jeans. GETTY IMAGES

This trend, taken to the extreme, that is, to lower the size of the pants so much that... They disappear, is what we are seeing today. Although the writer emphasizes that nothing is new under the sun: I am not the only one who used, for those wonderful 2000, male boxers with a floral print (which had been very beautiful) instead of pants. Not to go outside, okay, but I do eat beach and pool clothes instead of kaftans or sarongs.

Men, women and vice versa

Second possible cause after the rise of underpants as an outer and fashionable garment: male and female wardrobes, in addition to their drawers of intimate clothing, have increasingly diluted borders.

Although perhaps we have experimented before with the clothes that were traditionally born for them – we start with the pants and continue with the oversize tailor suits or the sartorial vests, which are worn so much in a female version today – men are increasingly added to wear garments and styles that for decades have 'belonged' exclusively to women.

ASAP Rocky in kilt, and with Rihanna, at the MET Gala 2023. GTRES.

We will take the skirt as an example, and Brad Pitt as an icon. The actor, at almost 60 years old, presented in August 2022 the film 'Bullet Train' precisely with a skirt. "We're all going to die, so... Let's turn things upside down!" he said when asked about the reason for his style decision. He has not been the only one: Oscar Isaac, at the 2022 MET gala, did the same with a Thom Browne model and ASAP Rocky in 2023, with a Scottish one.

The actors and singers of young generations aim not to respect the bias for traditional wardrobes: the tops with necklines of Timothée Chalamet, the accessories (such as the big flower choker of the Brit Awards signed by Harris Reed of Nina Ricci) of Harry Styles -or their manicures- or the suits of jacket and tuxedos with nothing underneath with which the troupe of Pedro Almodóvar (Manu Ríos, Jason Fernández and José Condessa de todos todos) just attended the premiere of ''Monster' at the Cannes Film Festival are good proof of this.

Manu Ríos and Jason Fernández, in a suit and with nothing underneath, with Ethan Hawke, Pedro Almodóvar, Anthony Vaccarello, José Condessa (also shirtless) and George Steane at the Cannes Film Festival. GTRES

More 'living' and very current evidence of how borders are diluted: Valentino, by the hand of his creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli -a visionary of current trends, guilty of having taken the color pink second to protagonist of a whole year of fashion- who in his last parade made an ode to the tie for her, for him for everyone.

Incidentally, the Italian managed to give much to talk about at the MET gala at the beginning of May, which paid tribute to Karl Lagerfeld, for dressing Pedro Pascal with a tie, yes, but also with Bermuda shorts!, something hitherto unthinkable in a man on a red carpet ...

Pioneers in underpants today

As a sample there is no better than a button, here we bring the first women (and brands, Zara 'included') who have opted to take the underpants to the street today, in one way or another ...

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Julia Fox in her underpants in Los Angeles

Transgressive as she is, it was clear that if anyone was going to debut in underpants this spring-summer it was Julia Fox. From the Diesel brand, he accompanies them with a short shirt, blazer and mules with hair, a look that ratifies that he has not gone for a walk in his underwear by accident...

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Bella Hadid, in her underwear in New York

Bella Hadid has also resorted to underpants to shape some of her 'looks'. Here we can see her walking through the streets of New York with oversize slips as pants combined with a shirt and an 'oversize' leather jacket. The icing on the cake: UGG boots with white socks.

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Kylie Jenner's Loewe

With knitted slips and matching tank top, by Loewe, the model attended the Paris fashion week in September 2022. Attention to detail of the stockings under the underpants...

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Underpants from the 2000s

Influencer Jessica Mercedes Kirschner shows her Miu Miu underpants, a label that is very visible like that of Calvin Klein in the 2000s, under her jeans.

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Underpants under transparencies at Miu Miu's spring-summer 2023 show

Tight boxers that, like the bra, look perfect under a transparent set. It was just one of several looks Miu Miu showed in her show this season.

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Pajama underpants

The model Celine Bethmann already wore striped boxers in 2021, matching the shirt, in a kind of reinterpretation of taking the pajamas to the street.

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Underpants and miniskirt, why choose

Chloe Lecareux in Paris last January, with underpants from the brand Homme Girls, one of the first to manufacture this men's undergarment for women. She lets them see under her mini skirt and finishes the look with a classic camel coat, because underpants are also for winter.

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Boxers at Zara

Zara calls them shorts, but maybe they meant underpants. The resemblance of this blue and white striped pajama model with the male undergarment is evident. They cost 22.95 euros.

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