- It's oddly liberating.
- It's pretty comfortable, I'm not gonna lie.
- Like, this just doesn't feel comfortable at all!
♪ (punk rock music) ♪
(marching in time)
- (voice-over) Today, we celebrate the first glorious...
- What the heck?
- I have no idea what this is.
- (voice-over) We have created, for the first time in all history...
- What?
- Is this the romper?
- Oh, is this the male romper thing?
- Oh my god! This is the RompHim thing.
- (gasping) Oh, the RompHims!
- (voice-over) We shall prevail!
- There's no "we," bro.
No one wants to wear that thing.
- (voice-over) On May 15th, 2017, Aced Design will introduce
the original RompHim-- - They are really doing this?
- (voice-over) ...this summer is about to get romped!
- What the heck is this?
- I don't understand.
♪ (poppy dance music) ♪
- This is hilarious.
- Oh my god.
I don't even know how I feel about this.
- They're out in public now.
It's not just a meme.
- I've seen memes of this all over Twitter.
I didn't think it was real, but I guess it is.
- I think on some guys it looks okay, actually.
- No! There's just some things that should be girl trends
and stay as girl trends.
- Wow, it's beautiful.
- Oh my god.
- Ooh, adjustable waist?
- Oh. Ooh, no, no, no. Is it an actual Kickstarter?
Oh my god!
- "Romp the summer."
- Oh my god, yes!
- No. No. #Not.
No. We're not romping anything.
- Why is this male romper becoming a thing?
- It's a decent look for guys who are muscular.
Other than that, I don't think anybody else can pull it off.
- I don't hate it.
I think if a guy wants to wear a romper, he should go for it!
- (FBE) So that was an ad for RompHim,
a company who launched a Kickstarter to create and sell the male romper
and have raised over $350,000.
- Oh my god! This is outrageous.
- There's the people who are making jokes about it,
but there's also the people who are like, "Yo, lowkey, I get this."
- (FBE) Last week, this went viral across the internet
and we have some things to show you about that.
- Okay.
"I guess we gonna act like Mr. Brown didn't do it first."
- (cracking up)
- Oh my god.
This has been a thing for a while.
- I never even noticed Mr. Brown was wearing a romper.
What?!
- Is this Star Trek?
- "I mean, they are the fashion of the future."
Oh my god! It's Star Trek.
- Oh, wow, okay... well, Star Trek.
- What?!
Is that a romper? It looks like a skirt.
- Oh, that is hilarious. That's a short one, too.
But damn, look at them legs.
- "When you trying on rompers at the mall
and your girl says, 'Come out. Let me see.""
- I love DJ Khaled. What a guy.
- I've seen that one before. That one's good.
- (cracking up)
Wait, I saw this one on Instagram and I died for a solid 20 minutes.
- I'm digging it.
So many people are just trying new things
and just being unique and being themselves
and I love it.
I totally support this.
- "Me and my girl going to the bedroom,
taking off our rompers at the same time."
- No! (giggling)
- This is so stu-- (groaning) I don't get it.
- These are the memes, but people legit wanted this.
That's why they got the funding.
- "When you wear your romper out for the first time."
- Ha! Ha!
The transformed Squidward.
- Yeah, exactly, SpongeBob is gonna be me
roasting the crap out of you if you wear those rompers.
- Handsome Squidward started the romper-- RompHim trend.
He did. Look at him.
- It's handsome Squidward, though, so he looks good in it,
which means that you'll look good in a romper basically.
- "When you see your homie looking lowkey cute in his new romper."
- I've heard this could change fashion.
I feel like this is genuinely gonna be a big thing.
- You know what?
Be unique. Be yourself.
Wear male rompers 'cause why not?
- (FBE) These do not ship until later in the summer,
so we were not able to get our hands on one.
- Oh, that's disappointing.
- Ah, dang.
- Good.
- I mean, it's a Kickstarter, so I didn't imagine
they'd be available yet.
- (FBE) However... - No.
- Ah, there's a "however"?
- (FBE) We do have something close,
and we want you to try it on. - Oh Jesus!
I never thought I would have to try on a romper before.
- (laughing) No!
- There's no way! Are you serious?
You're joking, right?
No, you know what's gonna happen?
I'm gonna get roasted, that's what's gonna happen.
- (FBE) All right, come on in. - Oh gosh.
(camera shutter clicking)
It's oddly liberating.
It's extremely comfort--
I'm surprised at how comfortable it is.
I'm one of the first men who's on camera,
on a major show, who's wearing a bro romper.
So, you know, this is not cool just yet.
- This is so wrong, guys.
(camera shutter clicking)
How are these things comfortable?!
You can't even move in them.
This just doesn't feel comfortable at all.
- This is weird.
(camera shutter clicking)
There's no flexibility or room to do anything.
It's just not me.
(camera shutter clicking)
- It's pretty comfortable, I'm not gonna lie.
It's okay, I guess, but I really don't see myself wearing this.
- (FBE) So though we couldn't get the actual ones
since they are not out yet, we did have the male teen reactors
try on something similar a little bit earlier.
- Stop.
- Oh my god, yes!
- It's amazing. I want to see this.
- Oh, beautiful.
- (snickering) Oh my god!
- No! Y'all put Daniel in the romper!
He's a very laid-back guy.
I don't think rompers are his thing.
- Daniel actually doesn't look bad in this.
It just looks like a normal collared shirt
with just really matching pants with it.
It doesn't look bad.
- (snorting)
He looks like a priest.
- Noooo! (giggling)
Oh my god! He looks like a waiter
with the little thing that they wear.
- Josh, okay, his pants look a little more flowy
and it's kind of funny, but I like how
they're mixing it with the collared shirt
and then it's like the whole romper thing.
I'm into it.
- Y'all gotta take that off of Ethan.
- Oh my god! The popped collar.
That's gonna become a thing.
Out of the ones that I've seen so far, this one's probably my favorite.
I think he pulls it off.
- Alberto, no!
Oh no, take that off of him. He looks like a Build-A-Bear.
- He just looks like a mechanic.
You know, we'll get to see some nice calves this summer,
that's all I gotta say.
- Honestly, our cast looks pretty good in them.
I feel like they're really working.
It's gonna be the fashion staple of the summer.
- (FBE) So why is this a thing?
- Honestly, I thought the initial part of it was irony.
- Just the jokes around it is making it super popular.
- The guys of Twitter especially,
because I feel like that's where I saw it blow up,
were kind of, I think, making fun of it at first,
where it was like, "Oh, RompHim. This is kind of ridiculous."
But then I think everyone was sort of like,
"Wait a second. We might be onto this!"
- We got the half that are joking about wearing them,
and then the half that actually do want to wear them,
and then there's me, who is forced to wear them.
(laughing)
- (FBE) Rompers are relatively common clothing for women,
and now there's gonna be an ongoing debate
as to whether or not these are actually fashionable for men,
and there are other companies who have now announced
that this will be part of their clothing line,
including Reebok, who's going to be making a romper.
- What the [bleep]?! Reebok?
- (FBE) So why do you think that previously
rompers were not made available for men?
- Well, because it's like-- I feel like it's a little bit revealing
on the legs, so it's like-- that's not necessarily
a guy's clothing trait.
- I'm not sure why they're marketed just towards women.
I guess because some of them are short
and so people don't really consider men wearing short shorts.
- Girls can wear any guy clothing,
and now there's this whole switch where guys can wear girl's clothing.
That seems to be the new trend.
This is something brand new for everybody.
- There's always been a sort of division between
what is feminine and what is masculine,
and so rompers have always been a very feminine thing,
because they're normally floral pattern and kind of flowy.
Nowadays, we've seen this mix between
masculinity and femininity, where it's kind of like
you can wear whatever you want.
- Rompers look like dresses, you know,
and it's the whole stereotype of men can't wear skirts,
or men can't wear dresses.
The whole idea of what society perceives as right or wrong,
especially in fashion, towards male or female,
I think is starting to kind of dissipate a little bit,
which is why it's probably being a thing.
- (FBE) So, finally, these rompers will be available later this summer,
so will you be buying one? - I will not be buying one.
- No. Never. Ever.
- It's not quite for me.
I don't wear shorts that often.
- Why not, you know?
Like I said, this is good around the house stuff, I guess.
Screw it, you know?
You only live once.
- (FBE) And if you were a guy, would you go out
and buy one of these rompers? - I would.
I think they're cool.
- Yes, I would rock a romper.
Of course!
- If I had more of a masculine body frame, sure.
It's just a t-shirt and shorts.
They're just connected, you know?
What's weird about that?
- I like button-ups, so I feel like
maybe a RompHim would be the way to go
to wear a cute-ass button-up,
but is also conveniently attached to some shorts.
I totally would maybe try on a RompHim and see if it fits.
- Thanks for watching this fashionable episode of Teens React.
- If you want to see more, subscribe.
- Bye, guys. I gotta go spend 30 minutes trying to take this thing off.
- Hey, guys, what's up?
I'm Kyle, a producer here at FBE.
- And I'm Austin, an assistant editor.
- And since we're covering male rompers,
we decided we gotta try them on.
- And as you can see, they look pretty dang good.
- Oh yeah! - (sassily) Oh yeah!