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Grey Sweatpants Are the New Thirst Trap

  • By Bryan Goh

Grey Sweatpants Are the New Thirst Trap
For the month of December and January 2021, you might notice that we have changed the way we are presenting things on our site. While we could have taken the easy way out and presented generic festive stories with generic festive ideas — top 10 shoes to party in, the best log cakes that are available for delivery and festive hampers to gift friends and family — at Men’s Folio, we believe in ideas that are as functional as they are frivolous, as smart as they are easy to wing and as enriching to you as they will be to the people around you. In short, we want to be as useful as possible because #aintnobodygottime.

Hence, we’ll be presenting 60 very useful ideas for the festive season and into the 365 days to come for the next 60 days. Here is idea 47: Thirst-trapping in grey sweatpants.

Topless gym selfies are so 2000 and late — so is the classic “I am panting really hard topless” boomerangs. Enter the more casual way to flex one’s body — the humble grey sweatpants unique to the “work from home” setting of today’s climate. While there are politically incorrect explanations as to why it thirst traps so well, here is an interpretation — it has a dirtbag allure without literally looking dirty.

If you’re looking for a pair to you know, get likes on the ‘gram, the pair above can be copped from the Zegna site.


Photography
Jaya Khidir
Art Direction
Izwan Abdullah
Styling and Text Bryan Goh
Grooming Larry Yeo using Chanel Boy de Chanel
Hair Sha Shamsi using Hanz de Fuko and I.G.K / Sephora

This story about thirst trapping in grey sweatpants first appeared in the December/January 2021 issue of Men’s Folio Singapore.