Oh, Bieb. I know it’s a beach wedding, and the rules are often different — if there are any rules — when you have to traverse sand.
But when your girlfriend is in a ball gown (I think she was a bridesmaid?), you should maybe try a little harder not to look like you just wandered into the party to try and get an autograph. It seriously looks like Selena made you mug the maitre d’, dearest Bieb, so you’d at least have something non-skanky on over your Hanes. And what the heck is going on with your pants? Are they belted around your upper thighs? Are you smuggling a few Coronas into the ceremony? Did the doctors tell you not to wear anything tight or remotely constrictive in advance of your paternity tes…ACK. NEVER MIND. U-TURN. HIT THE GAS. GET US OUT OF THAT MENTAL PLACE.
Sigh. These kids today, I’m telling you. Anyone want to sit on my porch swing with me and shake our fists? The first bag of Werther’s is on me, if you bring the denture paste.
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Comments (86):
Ugh, this is actually kind of turning my stomach it’s so awful. Can anybody explain the rationale behind wearing tight skinny jeans (capris, no less), but then wearing them halfway down your thighs like they’re baggy? I blame Kanye.
BTW, those pants are MADE to be worn like that. I.e., the waist to crotch length is longer to ENHANCE the baggy look.
Ugh. Such a tool.
Yes! Thank you! SUCH a tool! I actually called him a little prick the other day and my boyfriend’s 17-year-old sister called me out on calling a “child” a prick.
You actually have Lil Wayne to thank for the saggy skinny pants. You’ll have Kanye to thank when he starts wearing them back on his waist in leather with a coordinating kilt.
All this Kanye talk has got me stuck on a verse he did on the N.A.S.A. song “Gifted.” Which, happily enough, is one of his better. (“As usual, my pants tight/Threaded/It seem like everybody dress tight now/And I just want my/Credit/Don’t get it/Twisted or dreaded…”)
…ahem, excuse me, I mean KANYE
I just think that he looks like a tool.
I just think it’s insultingly disrespectful. I mean, if that’s the best you can do at a wedding, then just stay home, crack a few beers, and zone out in front of the tube with your hand down your pants.
That’s probably harsh, but it’s honestly what this outfit is saying to me.
If only he were old enough to crack a few beers…
True enough (but you know he has.) And it’s not so much him as it’s the outfit that’s speaking to me. I don’t care who was wearing it (age, gender, “celebrity” status, etc) they’d still look trashy and disrespectful to me.
This was my gut reaction, too. Maybe if ALL the guests were dressed like this, it might be fine, but if it were my wedding, I’d feel insulted. It’s supposed to be the bride’s big day, and here he shows up looking like this, with a trail of paps, making it all about him. What a jerk.
This is what parents are supposed to be for. Unfortunately, his mother has convinced herself that JBiebs’ being a pop star is his way of spreading Jesus’s love and helping people through music, so she’s turned him over to USHER to raise. I am not kidding. (I may or may not have watched the THS.)
I wish he would just go away….. Selena seems like such a smart girl, cannot figure out what she is doing with this kid.
I console myself with the knowledge that the shelf life of a teen idol is always short and there’s no indication that the Bieb has any basis for transitioning to an adult career. He’ll be gone soon and in 20 years we’ll see him on Where Are They Now?
We can only hope. In the meantime, I want to reach through my screen and throttle him. Douchey, disrespectful, beyond ridiculous, those pants are.
Justin’s out fit is not appropriate for wedding attire. And as I say many many times, he needs to actually USE that Louis Vuitton belt that he most likely has on. What’s the point of a belt if you’re going to wear pants like this? Answer: THERE IS NONE. It’s stupid and quite frankly I find it disrespectful and bad for someone who is constantly on the run…HOW does he run in these anyway?
I think it’s hilarious that there is a boutonniere pinned to the jacket, like THAT was his attempt to class up the outfit.
Ahahahah that’s the first thing I noticed too. Really, Biebs? You can’t wear pants in an appropriate size but you can take the time to find a boutonniere to pin to your jacket?
I am usually on team Give Bieb a Pass, however I’m with the above poster that this is just disrespectful. Hell, throw on a pair of loafers and that enhances this, um, get up greatly. I would like to see what other patrons to this wedding wore. Is he that out of touch, or was this really close to the dress code?
I will give Bieb a chance and say I do think he probably didn’t dress this way in a vacuum — I am guessing somebody said it was casual — BUT when your date is all fancied up I think the least you can do is try a tiny bit harder.
Also, no matter where you are, those pants are stupid.
Word, GFY Heather!
I am just baffled by the physics of those pants. How do they stay up? Are there secret suspenders? Do they hook to the jacket? HELP ME UNDERSTAND!
He’s sagging SKINNY pants…what has this world come to?!?!
Looks even better from the back: http://gossiponthis.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/justin-bieber-selena-gomez-wedding-02.jpg
The TOP of his pants are below the bottom of his backside. I always crack up (no pun intended) when kids wear their pants like this!! I mean, what’s the point anymore???
Omg, I know. I was at a waterpark with my kids and these guys were wearing their swim shorts like that and they had to hobble and take tiny steps to get around. They looked s f-ing stupid, yet they glared at me (I must have been staring, mouth agape) like I was the unfashionable douche.
I’m hobbling to the porch on my walker. Don’t eat all the Werther’s afore I get there!
I’ll be joining you and we can yell at the kids to get off the lawn. Damn kids.
I must be running a fever, because I think that if he just hiked his pants up a bit, he’d look cute.
If he hiked up his pants, this very studied take on Formal Hammer Time would lose all of its boho-douchiness.
“Can’t touch this”? More like WON’T.
YES – these are skinny hammer pants. Why anyone ever came up with this concept, I’ll never understand.
He’s a 17-year old boy. Give him a break.
No, no breaks for 17 year old boys. They get as much crap for dressing badly as anyone else does.
Amen, Melanie.
Especially no breaks for 17 year olds that have a kajillion dollars, handlers, stylists, and room temperature IQ (not sure about that last one).
And I give his mother and father a hard time too. Did they not raise him with some common sense? And the stupid man brooch. He’s maddening. He’s the only thing out of Canada I deeply dislike.
Why can’t the Big Time Rush dudes push him off the radar?
This is different than Ms Lovato’s outfit.
JB is going to a wedding, this is NOT appropriate wedding wear EVEN ON THE BEACH.
It’s “FU I’m too cool for school” wear, and frankly his parent(s) need to pull down his pants (easy with those) and give him a good old fashioned spanking for being so disrespectful.
Now pass the damn Werther’s, I’m going in to watch Andy Griffith.
I had the misfortune to pick up a British Elle recently and all the ads and editorials FEATURED THOSE TYPES OF PANTS. Blame the Brits.
I have a 17 year old brother who’s as typical (and casual) a teen as they come. There’s no way on God’s green earth he would show up to a wedding in this outfit. Actually, there’s no way on God’s green earth he would ever wear extended crotch manpris.
‘extended crotch manpris’ is the funniest thing I’ve read/heard today – thank you for the daily laugh that keeps me healthy
“extended crotch manpris” – indeed the funniest, I am going to steal that.
However your 17 yr old brother is not typical if he wouldn’t wear these, every one seems to between 14-25 (and boy do i feel old looking at them!)
Guys really have no idea how stupid they look when they wear this stuff. The ones who wear pants like this are such TOOLS.
You are so right!
Unfortunately, there are a lot of them who grace us with the delicate sight of their underwear. Because that’s what is visible from the back when you wear your pants on your knees… I often wonder how it doesn’t just fall to their ankles. I think it has to do with the belt… I know I thought too much about this mystery.
Anyway, Fashion divinity, make this trend go way. Save them from themselves. Spare our sight. Thank you.
With a decent looking pair of slacks this would be a decent outfit for a super casual beach wedding. Slacks. Ugh…I feel old just typing that.
you’re at a wedding. and at 17 you’re old enough to dress like a young man at a wedding, not a freaking doof-ass.
Just checked out Cheri C’s link. An even better link is this one to get a look at the back: http://gossiponthis.com/2011/12/11/justin-bieber-selena-gomez-share-kiss-during-wedding-ceremony-mexico-photos/
Looks like all the guys at this wedding wore khakis and a casual white shirt and all the girls wore blue summery dresses for this wedding (i.e., I think it’s a dress code for the wedding) but still, no one had their pants buckled at the thigh except Biebs.
What I worry most about, for the boys/young men who wear their pants like that, is how it affects their walk. Seriously, even with the belt, they basically have to walk with their feet 1 to 2 feet apart, thus both shortening their stride and widening it. (Clearly I see way too much of this style.) So my question is: what’s going to happen to their hip/pelvic girdle health in the long run? Are they going to have problems walking when they’re older? Will they need hip replacements more frequently? And how often will they miss the bus because they can’t run while keeping their pants up?
To my delight, I once witnessed a saggy-pantsed young man fall down while running from the police. Instant karma.
p.s. I hate those pants so much.
I love you for this comment. Sincerely.
I don’t much care about his pelvic girdle health, unless chronic formal hammer pants wearing causes sterility. In which case, WEAR THEM. WEAR THEM ALWAYS, BEEBS.
Tool.
Okay, after looking at the other guys, I will give him props for wearing a blazer. Imagine it with a good pair of skinny pants. Ryan Gosling, please do an intervention on your fellow Canadian.
The other men (and they were MEN) were wearing properly fitted khaki pants that were well pressed. That’s how you do casual. I thought all the girls looked really pretty too.
Come up on my porch and I’ll teach you to shout “You kids get off my lawn!” I’ll pull out all my rocking chairs.
Miz is especially welcome; she know the lyrics already.
Beibs here? These are stupid pants that equal the sheer leg-curtain trend.
I just want to yell at him, “Pull your f-ing pants up, you fool!”
I pulled 20 muscles in my neck whilst shaking my head. Ouch!
#crimeofpataloons
#crimeofpantaloons
Sometimes fingers fail
This comment section needs a lot of Werther’s.
So this is now Sass Your Elders Day?
Good luck getting your Frisbee back, young lady.
In a whole list of funny, “good luck getting your frisbee back” was the only one that made me laugh out loud! Good on you.
Someone needs to tell this nice young woman that her fire-drill attempt to leave the premises in beltless pants is having an unfortunate effect.
I totally agree. If somebody is hosting a wedding you have a responsibility to turn up looking smart and well dressed. Even if it’s a more casual beach wedding that still means no pants round your arse.
We flipped past some show the other night where Beiber was singing…same kind of pants, I kid you not, belted at the hamstrings. He couldn’t even dance. I’m so depressed because I thought the pants on the ground thing was finally fading to black, but no, this kid has to try and program the next generation.
I’d join you on the porch, but it’s after 4; I have to go eat dinner.
They look like skants: http://www.regretsy.com/2010/01/26/skants-contest/
OH SWEET MOTHER OF PEARL.
#can’tunsee
I think they are more than saggy skinny pants. I think they are stylised ‘dhoti’ pants… Not such a good look unless you are a Hindu Holy Man. I saw a young fella yesterday with his pants literally belted around his thighs – his whole backside was out of the trousers. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks it’s stupid!
I believe these pants were inspired by Dick Van Dyke’s sweet penguin dance in Mary Poppins.
“Oh, it’s a jolly holiday with Mary…”
As to how these guys keep their pants up, I always figured they were safety-pinned to their shorts. Which, when you think about it, as hilarious/horrifying (hillarifying?) potential…
Hillarifying!
It’s not just the pants, either. He’s wearing a deep v-neck undershirt under that blazer. That’s just one step above a wifebeater.
I love every single one of you for this magic.
You are all FULL OF WHIMSY! Reading these comments has made my day so much better!
i always crack up during the x games when all the little “hip” and trendy snowboarders wear their snowboarding pants like this, and then slide down the hill on their asses when they fall down, no doubt they have a huge rug burn on their butts because they missed the practicality of wearing them at waistline.
What is WRONG with him?!? And what the H E double L is going on with those pants?!? I don’t even enjoy making fun of him anymore — I just want him to knock it off and stop embarrassing his lady friend, really and truly.
Looks like a tool.
Looks like a tool with a full diaper.
Totally. I’m not even a parent, but my first thought when I saw this was “somebody needs a diaper change!”
Not only will I join you in the porch, but I’ll bring my own white wicker rocking chair and a cheese flan, so we won’t have a hard time chewing! And, we can shake our fists while singing “Baby, baby, baby, NO!!!”
this makes me stabby. STABBY! fuggirls, you have infected my vocabulary with that expression and i use it with abandon, in hopes it will catch on.
STABBY!
I’m offended by the lack of socks.
The worst part is that his underwear is showing.. makes me stabby.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2071971/Justin-Bieber-Selena-Gomez-cuddle-kiss-Shannon-Larossis-wedding.html
uggg. This is just fuel to the raging fire that is my hatred of him.
I can see your A$$! UG. Hate.Hate.Hate.
It looks like he shat himself. I will never understand this trend.
Those pants really, REALLY make me want to depants him for fun and profit…..er, maybe not.