1985
I am as sure as a person can be that he walked around later -- and possibly beforehand -- with no jeans on underneath these. That is, IF they are indeed chaps, and not simply package-framing pants. But they are clearly chosen to direct your attentin to the thumb he would like most to put up. That he stuck his backstage pass to it feels almost disgustingly symbolic.
How has this NOT been Rob Gronkowski's Halloween costume yet?
MC Hammer
On August 14, 1990, MC Hammer treated us to sparkly versions of the pants he made famous. AND armpit vents. This whole costume was flapping.
India.Arie, 2002
She looks like summer. It's cheering me.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1994
Do you think THIS was their great idea, and it's layer upon layer of symbolism?
2002
The Blue Man Group wore, yes, blue.
2002
And so, at the same party, did David Bowie. Maybe he thought Blue Man was the dress code.
1986
Whereas Prince, in the eighties, simply wore... Prince. And a lot of buttons, but MOSTLY just his glorious Princeness.