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Good morning to , who went straight from his hotel to Monday’s show in a rather flimsy pair of bedroom boxers—yet another gem in the crown for the king of thigh chutzpah. Despite emerging pictures of the gladiator’s revealing on-set kilt, Mescal’s negligible inseam is our , his duelling pins battling it out for our attention. The internet has been swooning over Paul’s thighs since 2020’s infamous summer dash to get prawn crisps and gin in a tin.

Henceforth, Mescal and short-shorts have become as synonymous as peas and carrots, Woody and Buzz, the Olsens and cigarettes. The Gucci show was itself a leggy parade of barely-there shorts and long limbs (Gucc-knee, if you will), so Paul was only following suit; but something about his shift from short (distinctly outerwear) to full cotton boxers (distinctly underwear) is both deeply unserious and enthusiastically erotically charged. I don’t want to completely objectify one of our most interesting actors, but we’re also witnessing the internet’s favourite boyfriend in his underpants in front of the paparazzi.



And so, I guess, to men’s legs—specifically men’s a body part that’s become increasingly muscular as it’s become more public. Twin columns once housed in trousers or board shorts have undergone , now daring you not to gawp as men’s hemlines rise and rise. Where we once had a glimpse of knee, we now have the holy trinity of hamstring, quadriceps, and adductor.

And I get it—it’s nice to have nice .

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