Fashion plates are pooh-poohing these poofy pants.
Causing a big stink, bloomers — more disparagingly known as “diaper shorts” — are controversially rising as the hot season’s hottest bottoms.
But the questionable cutoffs are leaving some clotheshorses pretty hot under the collar.
“Diapers? What the hell?? What the helly?” shrieked a cyber naysayer, criticizing the sack-like shorts from Artizia, a women’s fashion retailer.
“Little lad poopy-pants,” spat another beneath a trending TikTok clip of the much-maligned micros, which have also been slammed with nasty nicknames like “granny panties,” “vintage undies,” and “Victorian bloomers.”
Snide remarks aside, when it comes to tracing the origins of the outré togs, the haters are right in the money.
“Bloomers are a bifurcated garment that were worn under dresses in the 19th century,” according to a report from NYC’s Fashion Institute of Technology, adding that the frillies were eponymously named for women’s rights activist Amelia Bloomer, an advocate of dress reform in the 1800s.
Since Bloomer’s day, however, the once ankle-length underclothes have undergone several severe cuts, and have become a wardrobe staple — thanks to the recent “underwear as outerwear” trend.
French luxury fashion house, Chloé, offers its “Mini Bloomer Shorts in Silk Charmeuse” (which are currently sold out in all sizes) for $1,450.
Miu Miu, an Italian haute couture label — famous for its itty-bitty garb — hawks cheek-baring bloomers, the “Poplin briefs,” for $995, and the even skimpier “Hot Short,” at a cool $1,150.
Voguish VIPs such as singer Dua Lipa, Jennifer Lopez, Addison Rae and Sydney Sweeney have even been spotted sporting the tiny trousers.
Dua Lipa, 29, did the show-stoppers during on a girls trip to the tropics, while internet icon Rae, 30, donned a pair to complete the street-chic swag she oozed during a separate vacation overseas.
Pop culture’s perennial pin-up, JLo, 55, gave fans a gander at her gorgeous gams in bubble-hemmed bloomers by Chloé late last year.
And Sweeney, 27, promenaded through Paris in the head-turners while attending Miu Miu’s Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 for Paris Fashion Week. She, too, posed in a $95 ruffled pair from Cosette di Ames at the 2025 Stagecoach Festival in April.
The diaper vibes notwithstanding, everyday tastemakers are loving to look, too.
Tegan Osbaldeston, a Big Apple-based content creator, proudly profiled in the baggy bloomers online, hoping to stylishly change the minds of detractors who say the shorts “aren’t cute.”
Vanessa Gerstner, however, hopes the bottoms continue to leave trolls peeved.
“Here to piss some people off again with my diaper shorts,” the virtual trendsetter teased as she slipped into the briefs in blue.
“I’m here to disrupt,” Gerstner spat, “and not look like everybody else.”
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