Hailey and Justin Bieber’s Contrasting Outfits Spark Stupidly Intense Internet Debate
Ah, yes, "Justin wearing sweats to his wife’s event is patriarchy embodied” vs. “Justin wearing sweats to Krispy Kreme sounds right” is just what 2023 needed...
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Hailey and Justin Bieber, two people I keep forgetting are married, pulled up to a New York City Krispy Kreme on Monday afternoon to promote a new lip glaze in Hailey’s beauty line, Rhode, and for the last 24 hours, the internet has engaged in a very, uh, level-headed, completely reasonable Parliamentary-style debate about the mismatched appropriate-ness of their attire.
Let’s dive into the ~discourse~. The new photos of the couple—Hailey in full, bright red glam and Justin in sweats and crocs with a pink baseball cap inexplicably thrown atop the hood of his hoodie—vividly recall Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran’s viral, contrasting looks during a 2018 performance that saw Sheeran in jeans and a T-shirt and Beyoncé in an ethereally beautiful pink gown. Both duos have drawn the same outsized reactions.
On the one hand, there is the very obvious point that men can basically wear whatever they want and invest as little effort into their appearances as they like. Of course, this wasn’t Justin’s event—he wasn’t performing or trying to draw any attention to himself. But at the same time, it’s hard to imagine Hailey showing up to support him at a concert in sweats and crocs, herself. As one particularly outraged Twitter user put it, “id be so angry if i was giving the girls my best look of the year and here come my husband.”
