Yes, yes! Oh crap. I have to wear these.
Hello friends and welcome to another video.
This week, I'm going to be trying out another questionable fashion item, and this time they are the completely see-through jeans.
So Topshop created the "Clear Knee Mom Jeans" which I have previously tried out
And I think that they were so pleased by the controversy that those jeans caused that they took it a step further [now]
Now, I feel like I've used my fair share of alarmist language around these clothing items
So I'm not going to call these jeans - if we can even call them jeans - the ugliest jeans in the world
But I do have to ask. What the *beep* are those?
"Topshop now sells clear plastic jeans and no one knows what to wear them with" "Clear plastic jeans and the end of pants"
"Someone please explain the reasoning behind these clear pants"
What is the reasoning behind the clear pants because I'm going to be honest - I don't know exactly why any
person who's not walking a runway or perhaps going fly-fishing
would need these clear pants. Shall I bring them out? Without further ado, the clear -
if you can even call them jeans -
jeans! My initial thought is that
this
Doesn't feel great. Oh my God. I'm also... I'm very mad about this tag this large tag inside
Don't you know that your pants are clear you can't just put a tag in here?! another first impression
Is that it doesn't look very long?
Which is probably good because hopefully I'll get some ankle breathing, but you know what I want to know why?
I Genuinely want to know why these pants exist. Let's try them on
No
No, no, no.
- Are you seriously gonna go out in those things?
I mean, I like little booty shorts right, so it's not like NSFW
But my thighs are very exposed. Look at how they sound.
- It's loud. - I'm gonna be honest. I'm completely speechless. You're actually trying to walk around with these things on?
my first impressions are, they don't feel as bad as I thought they would. I honestly think though that I'm probably gonna have to
Take breaks in the middle the day?
Just because, like imagine if I get really sweaty I'd have to air them out.
I mean, if we were talking about how my legs looked like ground turkey in a produce bag last time
Oh, oh, we didn't know what's coming. Are they stuck to your leg?
Just raise your hand if you've ever felt personally victimized by Topshop.
The sound of me walking down this hallway right now is
obscene. It's is not a good noise. So usually on the first day
I like to take it a little bit easy, but I also wanted to style it
how
Topshop styled it, and they went full bare leg. This is a lot of leg, like my gams are really out and about right now.
So I thought a good introductory place to go would be the mall that we usually go to. I don't know that I was right
People are walking by and averting attention if you look over your shoulder
There are people looking. The funny thing is I feel so covered because like they're so
Definitely on my legs - like I can feel them. But like my legs are out like I am kind of naked.
I also was making a lot of noise.
(sound of jeans scraping)
What I didn't think about was that the noise would alert
Passerby to something happening and people would then look and then see my bear thighs. Well played Topshop.
Well played.
I did get some very vocal positive responses: when I was in line a girl walked by and said "whoa-
Sick pants!" and I was like: "yeah!" Because she's so enthusiastic, and I was like now, I'm enthusiastic too!
but then I did also get some
Confused to negative responses; probably 30 seconds after I was so excited two older women walked by me looked at me and went: "huhaha"
We've been out for a couple of hours in my clear pants
I kind of reached the end of my rope, not emotionally my actual end of the rope is because of the chafing
that's begun. Just my very upper thighs started to rub against the plastic and each other. A little diaper rash.
A little bit of diaper rash. Maybe with some leggings underneath, it'll be better, but right now
I just like I got a couple hours and then the chafing begins
And then I got it just forgot the emergency pants
I should have brought the emergency pants. So the next day
I went for a nighttime
Outfit Tyler and I went on a little date to get some Boba. I put some
Fishnets underneath the Pants which I think kind of works
minus the fact that the fishnet went all the way into my boots. All the lights of this intersection of reflecting off your pants!
That's why they're kind of flattering is because like they do reflect like a ton of light you can't even get a good look at
The legs. Are you cold? Not really I'm feeling kind of insulated. The only problem. Is that they're a little like sweaty?
I did notice a small amount of fog around the crotch.
Oh my God, that's inappropriate.
We also did a spill test in which we spilled a small amount of my boba on to my legs: just to make sure
That the one value proposition of these pants is in fact true. Oh, did you get it? oh it looks pretty good?
It's running right off. Hey. I'm a messy eater. This like actually this could be legit. It's cold
I can feel it. We also stopped by the grocery store
And I hung out with my brethren the sausages. sausage or legs spot the difference. Okay, you guys,
Crusty hates these pants. Oh they're so loud.
These pants have made my cat hate me! The next day
We just had errands to run and I wanted to try on a more like casual look. Okay Tyler
What did you just say? I I think it is casual it kind of works. They're kind of cool.
I'm not going to go all in in that
It's definitely working today, but I do feel like wearing pants under these pants is a pretty good call. We went to Costco
We got some lunch. My favorite part now that I realize is that when my hands
are in the pockets you can see my hands just groping myself. It's not a big deal. I tried another spill test this time with mustard. Check it out
Yeah it doesn't matter
I can just pick it up off it. That was great; very satisfying actually. With leggings under the clear jeans at least in this situation
I was pretty comfortable.
I wasn't getting too many reactions except for a couple of reactions from middle-aged women who both really complimented the pants
The woman was at the entrance of Costco kind of like checking your cards when you walk in
Stops me and said that my pants really remind her of the sixties and seventies and when I told her that people thought these pants
were ugly. She was like: "what? they're so cool!" So when she mentioned the sixties in the seventies
I wanted to do some research into where clear plastic clothing has appeared in Fashion history before.
In the 1960s there was a
space-Age fashion trend that included wearing plastic clothes. The trend reflected an interest in space exploration
Which was kind of a hot topic because of the space race between the USA and the USSR
space travel and visions of the future were everywhere in the 60s from
Newspapers to runways to TV screens and movie theatres. Though these clothes were maybe not worn as everyday attire
Some designers were making clothes out of materials used by astronauts like vinyl, plastic and Velcro. These outfits were kind of like
projections of what people believed
Future clothes would look like. It seemed like everyone was pretty sure we'd be wearing plastic by now. Another instance
I found of literal clear plastic pants being worn was in 1994 by [Park] [Jinyoung] or JYP, a Korean Pop star
It's not clear exactly where he got the inspiration for the pants
But he said that he wore them as a rebellious statement
and he was actually banned from broadcasting for awhile after wearing them JYP and his plastic pants have had a
Reemergence recently, so maybe Topshop got the inspiration for the plastic pants from him. Okay!
So back to my plastic pants. You feel at home
I found my people. We have groceries to get. Put me in the cart. Day four: after the success of the black leggings
Under the plastic pants I decided to go for some camo leggings that I purchased earlier in the week. Today is actually the first of
Like colors or patterns under the clear jeans and it is kind of fun
I think it's fun that you can like get a window into the pattern. My only issue was that my leggings were very high
Waisted and the pants were kind of falling down, so I kept trying to hike them up
But besides that I was having a good time. I feel like the camo and the plastic kind of complemented each other like I am
Not only in Camo. I'm also
under an invisibility cloak.
And we actually just walked by a guy who looked at my pants and said: "Oh my God!
What?!" I like the camo pants though
I'm standing by 'em. Day four was also the day that we
Flew to Orlando for playlist live I actually had ordered these pants a while ago
But I wanted to wait to wear the pants for this week, so I could bring them to you guys at playlist
I am not going to be wearing these on the plane. I'm sorry guys
I couldn't do it a five-hour flight and clear jeans is just not in the cards.
It wouldn't have been a good look and by look,
I mean sound. So outfit 5 was the first day of playlist.
And I had a Q&A that day I was very excited to hear what you guys had to say about the plastic pants
I hope it's not too like risque. I do have shorts and fishnet tights on but you know we'll see
we're on the way to the Q and A and I just
You can hear me comin'. By the time we get to the panel no one is going to be there. Yeah
They'll be like: "Is that... a swamp monster?"
A lot of you guys were very complimentary of the plastic pants; you guys were very nice about them
I actually think there is something aesthetically cool about them when you've got something going on underneath. Okay,
so we just finish our Q and A and a lot of you guys seem to like the pants in a certain way
My friends Natalie and Dennis from Natalie's outlet and Dennis's outlet. We're also very nice about them
Tyler and I are going to download this like decibel measuring app and we're going to see how loud these things are. I don't know
[how] precise it is. It's an app, but it should work. I want to turn the microphone near your pants. Let's see now
Oh my God.
Yeah, I broke 80. Do you see that? Yeah, alright, go full... go full.
broke 80 decibels, so
Loud pants. So up until that point
I hadn't washed the pants, so I thought they're plastic might as well try and just walk into the pool
With these jeans on. I haven't looked at the tag. I haven't looked at the care instructions. I'm angry at the tag
They kind of work in the bathing suit. Its like a pool party but you don't want to touch anyone else's legs. You know what I mean? It's actually perfect for waterparks!
They definitely felt very weird in the water it felt like a plastic bag kind of like dragging me back
You're like, Trash Island
Funny thing is now that I'm in the water like no one else around he can really tell unless they saw me walk in
And I'm just wearing clear pants!
Can you see them?
I'm not going to stay out here long enough any of the effect of a tan line
You know what would you know what would probably *beep*ing happen, so I would get a
tan line around the tag
Did you just go in that you found that in the pool?
And there's someone sandwich bag. So outfit six was me in my bathing suit and my soggy plastic pants.
We'll see if this actually cleaned the pants
I mean, they definitely got a good rinse, but I got a lot of compliments on the pants around the pool
So maybe they kind of go with a swimsuit look even though they're not really for swimming. Speaking of the tag
No
I did not cut the tag out just in protest of the fact that there exists a tag on these pants and
That honestly is the crime that Topshop should be charged with it's putting a tag in plastic pants
So outfit seven so the final outfit. [I] feel like in the last couple of videos
I've kind of been like building up the
'ugly' items together. I actually wanted to take it in the opposite direction and try and like make it as wearable as
Possible on the way to our meetups
I try to go for the space teen aesthetics back to the xenon references of course I'm excited
I'm excited to meet a lot of you guys, but I'm also apologetic in advance if I ruin any photos.
I think generally you guys like them. I actually do think that outfit seven is my favorite of all the outfits
I think something about the top and the bottom being kind of space-agey and see-through worked together
the meetup went pretty smoothly the only hiccup was when Natalie and Dennis noticed that I had some butt
condensation.
Is it at the back? Woah, you guys
May be farting out here? I haven't!
I think it's from butt sweat. Even though it's pretty comfortable inside the pants with leggings it can get a little warm
So we're gonna go with that. Wow that's awkward.
Because of the butt sweat I kind of like retired the pants until nightfall
This is an indoor outfit. So I stayed inside for most of the day, but I'm actually going down right now.
We're going to take my plastic pants and go to Universal. Hopefully the pants have a good time. The pants at Universal
We're actually not super uncomfortable like I was able to like sits places with just a little bit of taughtness
Around my thighs and knees, and I was actually feeling pretty limber
That was the best I've ever done! I was kind of you know shuffling around having a good time
There was a party afterwards at which my legs got super condensation-y because I was dancing a lot
Feel like dancing amongst other people really brought on the condensation
But just wandering around universal was like pretty okay. Overall,
I think I've had a change of heart about these pants. I think [when] you're wearing them with bare legs underneath
They're just too uncomfortable to really be worth it But when you've got tights or leggings or fishnets or whatever underneath
It's kind of a cool effect
it looks like you've got like static electricity around your legs or you know you are an astronaut like, it is a kind of
Space-age look. I definitely think there's a practicality issue with these pants even with stuff underneath them
They don't breathe very well, so you do get condensation now and again
And that's definitely something to think about especially for planning on wearing them all day long the chafing in the condensation is bad
But manageable the noise is unavoidable it attracts a lot of attention. You can hear Safiya
Coming down the Hallway these are like borderline (?) with walls
These pants definitely have flaws but there is something cool about them that I do enjoy. I also really love that
I got to bring them to playlist and share them with you guys there. I think that you guys enjoyed it
I hope. A little bit. Oh and one more thing. I don't think they're jeans
I think they're just clear pants. So let's just start calling them clear pants. We don't think they aren 'pants', but they're not
jeans they're not Denim, so
Shout out to Emma Blackery who also did a video on these clear pants
She wore them around London for a day and I've linked her video in the description
So make sure to check that out also a big. Thank you to everyone who tweeted me pictures from our Q and A and our meetup
I loved meeting all of you guys even if you didn't tweet me pictures
I loved meeting you and you all made my first playlist so memorable
And I can't wait to hopefully come back if they want me back, but I loved meeting you guys.
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