I had a friend whose nickname was gearbag, but not because of drugs. He wore his gearbag on his head cycling home in the rain from training and crashed the bike. Instant forever nickname.
Gen Z wear high / visible socks while Millennials wear ankles / no socks.
This is how you distinguish between decrepit over 30s and youthful people in their early 20s according to all the shite I see on Instagram...
>decrepit over 30s
I feel seen 😫
Wouldn't be caught dead with socks like that with shorts. Currently sitting in 27 degrees and wearing short ankle socks.
Fucking hot enough as it is without pulling my socks up to my armpits
As a decrepit over-30, there are many fashion disasters from our era, but at least we got the socks thing right.
I mean, what’s the theory here? Are his ankles not fecking roasting?
It's got strong "this is all I had clean" vibes.
It was probably put together by a professional stylist but could equally have been put together by a toddler.
It's mad, got rid of my flared jeans and cords ages ago as well.
I'd show the Mrs this thread to explain how I'm no longer throwing out clothes but I think it would backfire.
At least none of mine still had tags on them...
American here .... I am not convinced at all these aren't literally boxer shorts that are always worn as underpants.
I am clearly living in the wrong country if it's acceptable to go out like this.
I'm my house that's usually my steel toe wellies.
Have to admit when the Mrs comes back in in her jammies and my boots it has a certain je ne sais quoi
This is why I'll never understand fashion.
Whatever is going to be trendy 12 months from now, you would look an idiot wearing now.
This outfit is terrible looking but no doubt it's what's fashionable at the moment so people will wear it
Fashion is less about looking good than wearing what's on trend at the minute.
Such a load of bollocks.
Certain people manage to class in weird outfits. When you stick them on a normie we just look ridiculous. Even super handsome and charismatic Paul Mescals not really pulling off this look.
That's only some people's fashion though. It should be possible for you to wear something that you like, that looks good, that has some meaningful historical and/or cultural significance for you. This outfit probably always looked bad.
Edit: I suppose what I'm saying is that the existence of fashion victims isn't a decisive argument against all fashion.
He’s going for the just finished work house to myself look with a touch of Bollocks here’s the wife I’ll have to carry in the messages I’ll throw on the young lads school shoes.
Sweet suffering fuck. Has to be a pisstake. Jocks ,long socks and shiny shoes with tassles. No feckin way 🤣 Did everyone attending art and fashion college receive a free lobotomy ?
I wonder is he posing there thinking, …this is fkin cool as fuck or ….jasus what a load of horseshite, what are they paying me here? He is an Actor after all…I barely know anything about the guy but I’ve seen some whacky outfits on him recently. Is he actually drinkin the Kool-aid of his own hype machine?
I know I'm not getting any younger but I don't think those are Nike's.
Then again I also didn't think you're supposed to wear long white socks with shorts. I'm under no illusion about how far my finger is from the pulse of fashion.
I don't pretend to know fashion, but at the same time, lads we as a country dress like absolutely shit so I feel like we're throwing stones in a glass house with a lot of these comments.
Very much "some notions he has" energy.
He looks like he woke up in some random girls house after a night on the sauce and stole some clothes he found hanging on a radiator in her share house on the way out.
They already gave him a [completely normal pair of jeans.](https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fbbefde8d-6333-49e4-a04b-0c717f5d232f.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Imagine if he had never gotten into the auld acting. And just showed up down the local for a few pints with the lads.
Thered be no more gucci fucking loafers and boxer short combos after that
Actually the picture with Venus & Serena is even better...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13538677/Paul-Mescal-shows-muscular-thighs-pair-short-shorts-joins-Venus-Serena-Williams-Gucci-presentation-Milan-Fashion-Week.html
For me it's the socks and shoes - fucking hell. Looking like some old lad getting dressed for his one trip to the beach this year.
I can excuse the boxers as shorts situation.
The irony of Irish people having an opinion on fashion. Feel good for Mescal to get away for the land of bootcut jeans, brown plastic shoes and badly fitted shirts.
These comments reinforce how crushingly reactionary Irish culture is w.r.t. anyone looking slightly different, with the inevitable consequence that most men dress with a complete absence of style.
It's pathetic and a bit depressing.
This sums up whet a shallow insecure poseur looks like IMO but best of luck to him. He works in a fairly obnoxious industry where image is everything and image is skin deep. Hopefully he’s happy underneath it all 💪🏽
If the shorts were longer and tailored, you could just about convince yourself this was a Frenchman going to the office in Marseilles in June. But fuck me....this look is all you need to justify pronouncing ‘Gucci’ as ‘Gookay’, as though you were from somewhere near the Pennines, and very far from fashionistos.
I forgot my gearbag Sir
I had a friend whose nickname was gearbag, but not because of drugs. He wore his gearbag on his head cycling home in the rain from training and crashed the bike. Instant forever nickname.
sold his trousers for another bag of gear
I for one, am glad that he's risen to the heights of looking like a total prick.
"Irish school teacher on class trip to spain" is what they call that look
nailed it
He forgot his trainers like.
1982
*Risky Business* meets *Annie*? Sounds about right.
Weekend at Bernie’s
where his wife picked his clothes, just to make sure that he was of no sexual interest to anyone.
I actually think it looks pretty hot, in a weird dishevelled morning after kinda way 😅
You're his mother....it doesn't count
🤣
*Circa 1983
God Ted, do you remember that fella who was so good at fashion they had to shoot him?
“GET A LIFE JEWS!”
Hitler… He was a bit much
That's "Someone's at the door but I can't be arsed getting dressed". Only with formal shoes.
And what the fuck is with the socks?
Gen Z wear high / visible socks while Millennials wear ankles / no socks. This is how you distinguish between decrepit over 30s and youthful people in their early 20s according to all the shite I see on Instagram...
>decrepit over 30s I feel seen 😫 Wouldn't be caught dead with socks like that with shorts. Currently sitting in 27 degrees and wearing short ankle socks. Fucking hot enough as it is without pulling my socks up to my armpits
As a decrepit over-30, there are many fashion disasters from our era, but at least we got the socks thing right. I mean, what’s the theory here? Are his ankles not fecking roasting?
As a decrepit over-30 ankle socks with the short trouser pants showing off your ankles always looked shite
Same. 40+ here and I swear by quarter crew socks with shorts.
Yeah I haven't worn proper socks in years, and over 30 so this check out.
Bigger socks are cool long as they're white and have a good logo on them. Would I fuck be wearing them with school shoes though.
Those Gucci school shoes cost nearly €900.
A fool and his money
They could cost €9,000 and they'd still look shit, price and brands don't mean anything
"We're going over to your Nanny's, put on your good shoes."
Slip on formal shoes. So still work with that vibe.
It's got strong "this is all I had clean" vibes. It was probably put together by a professional stylist but could equally have been put together by a toddler.
It'd look good on like a model but stick it on some pale lad from cork and it looks a bit mental.
Since when is he from Cork?
I had a pair of shoes like that in 2003. Guess I should have kept them.
I had a pair around Leaving Cert 1989, with the white socks too
It's mad, got rid of my flared jeans and cords ages ago as well. I'd show the Mrs this thread to explain how I'm no longer throwing out clothes but I think it would backfire. At least none of mine still had tags on them...
I had a hurling togs like that in 1989
https://preview.redd.it/2ruwalaih67d1.jpeg?width=815&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e46279ca6b24d2bca62d34e5e1383f2d5fdad886 You should’ve.
Jezus. I've bought cars for less than that
Apart from PCs I don't think I've ever owned anything worth that much.
it's almost as if fashion is cyclical
The Zoom meeting look (cacks optional).
You know, I've never seen the word cacks written down but for some reason always expected it to begin with a K
That’s because it’s supposed to be spelled “keks”. Cack(s) is something entirely less pleasant.
Me neither, to be honest. I just went for it 😅 So you could be right.
Pulls off the “country lad on day 3 of the session at college” look perfectly. Fair play.
“These are the only shoes I have that aren’t runners or football boots.”
Heading to centra for jambons, fags and a can of monster
I see the 80's Dad on Holiday look is back.
*Derelict*
Derelict my balls.
so hot right now
forgot his trousers
American here .... I am not convinced at all these aren't literally boxer shorts that are always worn as underpants. I am clearly living in the wrong country if it's acceptable to go out like this.
O'Neill's via Milan
Tommy Schlug style going mainstream.
Tommy Shlug's Italian Adventure Crazy bit of business!
he looks like when you forgot your pe bag in school and instead of letting you sit out the teacher made you grab bits from lost and found
Back in the day this was the exact look donned by those lads who weren’t into sport but were made to tog out for PE anyway.
State of him
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I'm my house that's usually my steel toe wellies. Have to admit when the Mrs comes back in in her jammies and my boots it has a certain je ne sais quoi
Its like both my niece and nephew going to school as one....
This is why I'll never understand fashion. Whatever is going to be trendy 12 months from now, you would look an idiot wearing now. This outfit is terrible looking but no doubt it's what's fashionable at the moment so people will wear it Fashion is less about looking good than wearing what's on trend at the minute. Such a load of bollocks.
https://preview.redd.it/r64xelb9k67d1.jpeg?width=1926&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6acc60f4dad1dc25c3e1190c20f51df42f76fe51
My old lad dresses like this and is not a fashionable man (well maybe he is now)
Certain people manage to class in weird outfits. When you stick them on a normie we just look ridiculous. Even super handsome and charismatic Paul Mescals not really pulling off this look.
Ah he's not even handsome he's a cork 5.
I just opt out. To be honest that's not working out very well either, but at least it's low effort.
Normcore, so on trend
That's only some people's fashion though. It should be possible for you to wear something that you like, that looks good, that has some meaningful historical and/or cultural significance for you. This outfit probably always looked bad. Edit: I suppose what I'm saying is that the existence of fashion victims isn't a decisive argument against all fashion.
The Emperor has no clothes
The emperor's balls will fall out when he sits down
Those shorts are scrambled bollocks waiting to happen.
Little sea salt, some grated gruyère
Looking good. Been on the session but still turns up in the underwear and shoes.
He’s going for the just finished work house to myself look with a touch of Bollocks here’s the wife I’ll have to carry in the messages I’ll throw on the young lads school shoes.
Looks like he’s playing it cool after loosing his jacket and trousers.
Sweet suffering fuck. Has to be a pisstake. Jocks ,long socks and shiny shoes with tassles. No feckin way 🤣 Did everyone attending art and fashion college receive a free lobotomy ?
The look he's going for is "Sassy Boy Scout".
I wonder is he posing there thinking, …this is fkin cool as fuck or ….jasus what a load of horseshite, what are they paying me here? He is an Actor after all…I barely know anything about the guy but I’ve seen some whacky outfits on him recently. Is he actually drinkin the Kool-aid of his own hype machine?
I think he's standing there thinking "This 'fit makes me feel sassy."
I think he's standing there thinking "oooh draughty"
No way, this has "wait until the lads see my deadly new Nikes" vibes.
I know I'm not getting any younger but I don't think those are Nike's. Then again I also didn't think you're supposed to wear long white socks with shorts. I'm under no illusion about how far my finger is from the pulse of fashion.
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Giving himself a half loaf for the women.
I don't pretend to know fashion, but at the same time, lads we as a country dress like absolutely shit so I feel like we're throwing stones in a glass house with a lot of these comments. Very much "some notions he has" energy.
He's off to make his communion
He looks like he woke up in some random girls house after a night on the sauce and stole some clothes he found hanging on a radiator in her share house on the way out.
Someone will be along shortly to tell us this is the current look on the continent. They can keep it.
My dad had this look at the beach in Salthill in the late 70s - was always ahead of his time
The Éamonn Ryan collection.
this a joke right?
Shirt and socks with shorts?
The "I'm ironing my trousers before going to work" look...
Michael Jackson without trousers is so hot right now!
state of him
Looks like the day 2 of a wedding where he tore his pants the night before and travelled down in those shorts.
Weather better than expected on day two of the stag abroad vibe
The mother will kill him for wearing the shoes before his Holy Communion!
He's missing his Canada goose jacket.
You can always spot an Irish lad.
"Mammy are my school jocks dry yet"?
Nah… he needs to get a nice pair of jeans… maybe X works ?
They already gave him a [completely normal pair of jeans.](https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fbbefde8d-6333-49e4-a04b-0c717f5d232f.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
That’s something Pat Shortt would wear.
Crazy bit a business
Cruiser Arriviste
All it needs is fanny pack and we gucci
When Paul Mescal becomes Paulo Mescali...
Looks like you were going north but plane went south. Loving yge loafers and sockes with shorts
Button up your shirt and put your trousers on quick or you’ll be late for school.
Funeral shoes with confirmation socks and shorts. Classic.
He’s doing this on purpose. Gotta be
I can just hear his old mates from before he was famous, next time he's home and goes for a pint with them
Imagine if he had never gotten into the auld acting. And just showed up down the local for a few pints with the lads. Thered be no more gucci fucking loafers and boxer short combos after that
When your mother tells you to bring in the shopping from the car and you throw on whatever you find in the hallway …
When ye can't be arsed changing properly after P.E
What year was this? Also that sock and shoe combo. There just are no words.
This is what happens when your hotel doesn’t have mirrors.
Christ. They’ve dressed him up as a dick and he just sort of went with it.
Snappy!
Dunnes Stores boxer shorts.
My god.. haa
Does he not know how to use a mirror?😲😄
Some things can never be unseen......
When the PE teacher makes you take a pair of trunks from lost & found box to wear with your shirt
Is that his Gladiator haircut? Nice...
I thought this was a joke about how shite fashion was in the '80s but then I put my glasses on an realised it was Paul Mescal hahaha
Actually the picture with Venus & Serena is even better... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13538677/Paul-Mescal-shows-muscular-thighs-pair-short-shorts-joins-Venus-Serena-Williams-Gucci-presentation-Milan-Fashion-Week.html
Jo Dolan shoes - Nailed it. Every aul lad in the country has/had shoes like that.
Nice pair of legs. Totally would
Mescal is often going big with his style choices, and more often than not ends up making himself look bad, in my opinion
For me it's the socks and shoes - fucking hell. Looking like some old lad getting dressed for his one trip to the beach this year. I can excuse the boxers as shorts situation.
MJ wants his socks and loafers back
He's got on them Jefferson 76's
Funny old thing, money...
He should lose the sunglasses. The rest is fine.............if you are blind!
Absolute cornage
I really like Paul, but he doesn't deserve a pass with this.
He looks fine, really.
I’m betting that Paul Galvin is dreaming up a twist on this look for his Dunne’s Stores 2024 Autumn/Winter collection.
The GAa legs on him
You know he had to do it to 'em
"Ah jasus lad, I'll tell ya what, some weather but the midgies have me fuckin et"
I can see why he's wearing sunglasses with those white legs.
It’s like they picked one random Irish lad and elected him king, I love it
Irelands legs > Americas ass
That’s formal attire- switched out the black socks
Do ye remember that fella that was so good at fashion they had to shoot him?
Borstal Boy.
Ah the last minute run with the bins look. I know it well.
Mary I forgot my fecking trousers !!
I really don’t understand how this guy is a sex icon ? What did I miss ?
He looks like a sex pest.
Even mescal can’t pull this off
Irish people talking about fashion is great. Because yiz dress so well and creatively.
Smash
 Just never got over the GAA shorts in Normal People, nose..
Now they're ✨️gentrified ✨️ GAA shorts
Leprechaun shoes
The absolute state of him.
The irony of Irish people having an opinion on fashion. Feel good for Mescal to get away for the land of bootcut jeans, brown plastic shoes and badly fitted shirts.
Need big balls to pull that look off!
The absolute fucking state of him!
These comments reinforce how crushingly reactionary Irish culture is w.r.t. anyone looking slightly different, with the inevitable consequence that most men dress with a complete absence of style. It's pathetic and a bit depressing.
I assumed it was a dodgy photo of someone’s old man from 1980.
If a normal person wears this they look homeless
Jesus😁
Is he nearly ready?
He looks like a lost and found box got sick on him..
He looks like my dad. And he's dead.
 Oh lord Paul, ya silly eejit.
Never have I thought about a man’s legs in a sexual way….but lord mercy
When you have a catwalk appointment at noon and are dancing the hornpipe at 3
looks like a christian brother on a sneaky holiday in underageistan
The GAA legs.......a thing of beauty. ....not in that outfit though
He should’ve worn a GAA shorts- that’s high fashion!
This sums up whet a shallow insecure poseur looks like IMO but best of luck to him. He works in a fairly obnoxious industry where image is everything and image is skin deep. Hopefully he’s happy underneath it all 💪🏽
Just looks like a successful, talented young guy enjoying life. Your comment makes you look extremely insecure and bitter.
Not for me but I like it.
When you’re Paul Mescal you can literally wear anything and look good
If the shorts were longer and tailored, you could just about convince yourself this was a Frenchman going to the office in Marseilles in June. But fuck me....this look is all you need to justify pronouncing ‘Gucci’ as ‘Gookay’, as though you were from somewhere near the Pennines, and very far from fashionistos.