The Reality of Wearing a Romper (Girl or Guy)

[BeeNee]

So you want to wear a romper, huh? You've made the executive decision that today is the day. It's hot enough outside, you care not if rompers are allegedly supposed to be for kids only or women only...forget all that...you're just going to do it...well....

ROMPER REALITY CHECK

1. The perhaps 1 Romper Plus for Guys is...

If you're a guy, and you seriously don't care what clearly anyone says about this "trend" (see 1,000's of Romp Him memes) a button down, zip down romper actually works for you in the sense that you can still wear one, go to an empty bathroom, and still have your dignity intact, because anatomically, you can I suppose lift up and whip it out, and use the bathroom without having to...

2. Take it all off ladies...

There is just no polite way of saying this, but if you're wearing this thing, you've got to be really careful about drinking your 40oz bottles of water or coffee or time your adventures, so you can get out of your romper in the safety of your own home, because if you get caught with a full bladder or gawd forbid, a number 2 job, and have to go, gotta go, gotta go right now, you're going to have to find a stall, and completely strip down in order to be able to pee or poo, and because rompers for women like to make things even more complicated, if you've got something with long sleeves, straps, weird zippers...it is going to turn into a thing. Your friends will have to come in after you or help you because you've been taking so long and you will have to stand then sit there either totally exposed or in your bra while you go. I mean, example below...how the...what the...does she have to untie all of that and then re-tie it...how does that work exactly...

3. Get suuuupppeeeerrrr comfortable with wedgies

Rompers love to make a home in your crack. The fabric is typically pretty light, or is constructed in such a way that it's bound to ride up, there's no real way to sustainably keep it from rolling on up there in any sort of dignified way. This can lead to unfortunate back side views with your underwear or cheeks exposed. Not a good look.

4. Thin friendly

This is one of those styles that was constructed for, ahem children, or the skinny bean pole sort. Doesn't mean you can't wear the shorts version if you want to and you've got curves, but if you've got a JLO booty, and a healthy set of Salma Hayek's girls, a romper is usually going to be an uncomfortable day of you pulling everything this way and that to get it to sit some sort of right way. Rompers hate curves. They are evil in that way. Even when you try to one up your size, the shorts versions of rompers don't become roomier or more appropriate for your backside, they just somehow become worse. If you have a bit more curve, you might want to opt for a longer style like that of a jumpsuit.

5. Do not drop the soap!

If you drop something, kick it to a friend to pick up. The minute you even dare lean over to pick something up, you'll feel that uncomfortable breeze as that romper creeeeeeppps up, and you better hope no one has a cell phone out.

6. How do you, you know?

Had a great night out, and now you're with your boo...he...or she, has got to um, or you've got to um, sort of pull this up or that down and then like totally off or is there a snap or something or um, yeah...this.

[BCRanger10]

I don't wear rompers because I'm a MAN!

And ladies, I'll be perfectly honest. They're not all that flattering on you either. Stick to these during the summer...
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[Warmapplecrumble]

I agree

[dipta]

I like the blue roses pattern.

[Taken-Girl]

I agree

[SaramadHill]

Very valid points, I agree with the whole thing. And by the way, you don't have to bend over... Your butt will easily be seen regardless. I personally would feel super uncomfortable in one unless I had a great body which I didn't mind showing off, and I'd prefer to be a female as well... It's akin to swimsuits, except not for swimming.

[lovelyhoneybones]

Male rompers are so gay. I don't care what anybody tries to say, or who tries to make it a trend. There are some things that one gender can wear, whereas the other can not.

[applesandbannanas22]

you are so gay, get over it

[applesandbannanas22]

People are going to wear what they want to wear, nobody was bagging on females when you started wearing dresses which men started, and the same for high heels.

[lovelyhoneybones]

@applesandbannanas22 Get over it. Male rompers are gay.

[lovelyhoneybones]

@applesandbannanas22 And so is your face.

[applesandbannanas22]

your face is the gayest of all gay faces.

[lovelyhoneybones]

@applesandbannanas22 Your face is the gayiest of the gayiest, gay faces.

[applesandbannanas22]

your face is the gayest of all of the gay faces put together times infinity

[lovelyhoneybones]

@applesandbannanas22 Okay, okay. You win. Lol.

[cipher42]

The only reason clothes are gendered is because we treat them as such. Rompers are not inherently gay or feminine, just as pants aren't inherently masculine.

[applesandbannanas22]

YES! what do I win?

[lovelyhoneybones]

@cipher42 They may not be inherently gay, but with today's time, they are gay. If you're a straight man, you would not wear something that belittles you masculinity. I don't care what anybody says about that.

[cipher42]

? Who are you to speak for other people? Straight men are perfectly capable of being feminine, and the only reason rompers are feminine anyhow is because people think they are, so if more men did wear rompers they'd no longer be feminine anyhow.

[lovelyhoneybones]

@cipher42 Oh my goodness. Straight men are not okay with being feminine. If you ask any man, I'm not talking about some mangina or some millennial dude, they wouldn't be caught did in something that is for FEMALES.

Rompers are feminine, it doesn't matter what famous dude wears them. Like I said before, it's not something a straight man would wear. You can keep telling yourself otherwise.

[applesandbannanas22]

so in that logic, stop hearing heels, men started that, its masculine. also, stop wearing dresses, men started that too, its masculine. dont even work, thats masculine too, men are supposed to work, men shouldn't cook, thats feminine

[applesandbannanas22]

wearing heels*

[lovelyhoneybones]

@applesandbannanas22 That logic is flawed because that was in another century. I'm talking about MODERN times. Not something that happened way before our grandparents.

[applesandbannanas22]

like the other person said, if more people started wearing then so what? do you know that rompers aren't even new? there are cops who actually wear that in other countries in the summer, there is even a show called meet the browns where they had the father wear it decades ago

[applesandbannanas22]

nothing new under the sun

[cipher42]

Honey it's not our logic that's flawed. What your argument relies on is called the "no true scotsman" fallacy, and it is not in fact a valid argument.

[lovelyhoneybones]

@cipher42 And what your argument is called special snow flake/sjw complex. I'm logic is far from flawed, honey.

[cipher42]

That's not a logical fallacy hon. And it's not. My argument anyways. My argument is that there is no logical reason to define straight men as having to be purely masculine to be "real" straight men, so you arbitrarily making that the definition is not a legitimate basis for a valid argument.

[pervertedjester]

Rompers just look like this to me s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/.../...0666c81eb3.jpg

[Taken-Girl]

omg lol

[MrOracle]

Fashion designers' time would be better spent pounding large rocks into small rocks. Giving them ANY input over my clothing would be insane.

[BeeNee]

They've already done that though. Everything you're wearing... some designer came up with unless you sewed it yourself. Every season, those subtle fashion shifts... a tighter jean, a smaller collar, a differnet cut of suit... you think you aren't making these changes, but you are. I mean not too many people are wearing the same exact styles verbatim they wore 10, 20, etc. years ago because times change, people change, and fashion changes right along with it.

[MrOracle]

I'm wearing Levi's 550 jeans and T-shirts. Same as I wore in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. Probably in the 80s too. I don't do fashion.

[BeeNee]

So you point out one item of clothing like that's the only thing you've worn in 47 years? You still wearing the same cut of suit, the same hairstyle, the same patterns, the same shoes as 10, 20, 30 years ago? No, you aren't, and you know that. Just because you say "I don't do fashion," doesn't mean, fashion hasn't already done you and will continue to do so. You may not be wearing the absolute to the moment trend of the right here and right now, but your style along with everyone elses has changed throughout the years. Cell phones, houses, cars, hair, shoes, ties, pants, jackets... they change and you right along with them. It might not be a high fashion designer label on it, but other designers, take those ideas and turn them into the stuff you buy over the counter at the mall or wherever you shop, so you can continue to say, you have nothing to do with fashion because it feels good to say that or like you're bucking the system, but you're really not.

[redeyemindtricks]

(yes I know this post is old)

Ya know, yr beloved jeans and 550's are **also** the brainchildren of... fashion designers. Just not the outré ones who design runway collections that are totally separate from ready-to-wear.

Double plot twist: These ridiculous boy-onesies actually AREN'T from fashion designers with any bonafides -- they're a Kickstarter project whose founders (like essentially everyone on kickstarter) have total industry cred of 0.

They even admit, on their page, that they have literally no design experience at all. Peep: (under "creation")
https://www.romphim.com/pages/about-aced

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I mean, ok, obviously I'm going to defend fashion people ahah.
But srsly, even the crazy weirdo designers tend to have SERIOUS chops in designing classic menswear and/or womenswear BEFORE they get all weird and avant-garde.
... in the same way Picasso was an EXCELLENT classically trained artist, with impeccable technique, before he ever got weird and experimental.

[Schrodingerscat]

I don't like rompers on guys. Thankfully they aren't a trend here.

That peeing and pooping thing is the only reason I don't like rompers and dungree/overalls

[BaileyisDarcy]

Had a friend who wore these before they became a thing.

It kind of worked on her... But then again im probably only saying tjat out of relief that she was wearing something CLEAN.

[WildButterfly]

I'm not attracted to guys who wear rompers. It's just not hot to me and looks too feminine. If I wanted to date someone feminine, I'd date my bff. Me on the other hand, I love wearing rompers.

[HonestGirlAlways]

... why would you refer to skinny grown women as "children"? So much for body positivity...

[BeeNee]

I'm 100% sure that you did not read this correctly at all. A lot of people believe that rompers are a garment meant to be worn by children. There are indeed children's rompers. The adult version of the garment is largely constructed for thinner sized women because it it difficult to have any garment that is a one piece that is constructed in a straight cut that would be friendly to those with curves. The two are mutually exclusive in that sentence, not one in the same. Please re-read, if you are still confused on the subject.

[Anonymous]

I like rompers, but it's uncomfortable for me to go to the bathroom. Once I was wearing a sports jumpsuit because it was lighter to wear, but I had to go to the bathroom and I needed to poop, so I had to go to the last cubicle. In order to do my things, I was literally naked on top of my body and I wasn't wearing a bra so my breasts were exposed. I only lowered the jumpsuit to my knees because if I took it all off it would be difficult for me to put it back on.

[Ladyslipper]

I've always thought rompers and jumpsuits were so dumb because of the whole strip down to use the toilet.. Just wear shorts and a tank and be normal and simple sheesh

[Xwtxx]

I do not see the reason for a gentleman to wear this garment. For the ladies, I do not know because the fashion industry for women is tough. My 2 cents.

[SunnyCaliGirl]

I really like the look of wearing romper and I think they are a really cute piece for summer

[JimRSmith]

Rompers are for girls. Girls only.

[Jersey2]

You saved me from having to say it.

[cipher42]

Lol they're for whoever wants to wear them.

[Jersey2]

@cipher42 well then don't mind us if we laugh at them.

[cipher42]

@Jersey2 I mean you can do that, but you'd still be an asshole.

[LizzyMumbles]

I find them comfortable and flattering I think for me but I don't wear them often when going out for drinks because of the hilarious peeing episodes.

[Wylas]

Rompers suck so much when you really need to pee

[BrileyCat]

2 piece set . problem solved .

[HOAAH]

I'm not a big fan of it.

[abundantlyrich]

Nothing spectacular for me

[almadafie]

I don't know why a guy would wear that

[Prof_Don]

That mint green romper is fire 🔥