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A Guy's View: What Is A Romper?

No, seriously. What is it.

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A Guy's View: What Is A Romper?
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You've seen them. You're not exactly sure what she's wearing at first, or if you like it. I had this experience many, many times before I actually figured out what these girls were actually wearing. At first I said "wow what a great dress!" But after closer examination, I noticed the bottoms were shorts. So I said okay, must be just a matching tank top and shorts. But no, they're attached.

Now me being a guy, it took me much longer than it should when I was younger to distinguish the difference between a dress and a skirt. Bad, I know. I later learned after many confusing encounters, that this fashion contraption was called a romper. A hybrid between a dress, shirt and shorts. It's basically every girl's dream scape, and I'll tell you why.

Every dude knows that whether it's deciding where to eat, where to go, or what to do, you're going to get the classic response with a girl. "I don't care." And they'll never tell you what they do want, but they'll always tell you what they don't. "How about Chipotle?" "yeah... I guess." Oh, well thanks for the exemplification of "not caring." It's what girls do. They can decipher what they don't want. This is why they love rompers so much.

Yeah they're hip and trendy, and they're even a good change up from the other common outfits girls wear. But that's not why girls are wearing them. Instead of having to make an actual decision on what style of clothing to wear, or what's appropriate, now they can just revert to indecisiveness and wear a little bit of each piece of clothing. Half dress, shorts, tank top, or even sometimes T-shirt. They can skip the decision, and just decide to wear basically all of them. They wear them to look dressy, or to go out, or even just casually to throw something on.

But there's more. There's a reason I'm writing about this. It's killing my favorite part about the warm weather: sundresses. And I speak for 90 percent of the male population here. It's a glorious time of year, women all walking around in colorful, patterned dresses that flow in the wind and always make you turn your head. These rompers? Are threatening this majestic trend. Ever since these makeshift jumpsuits have been popping up, I've been seeing less and less sundresses. This is not okay.

Rompers are not just a new fashion trend, they're a statement. Backing girls' indecisiveness, and marking the downward trend of the beloved sundress. It needs to stop. Pick an outfit girls, not just a mashup of every option there is. And most importantly, make the sundress great again.


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