Adam Sandler style spawns explosion of long shorts and jorts at NYFW
By Asia Grace,
2024-09-09
Big Daddy ’s so faddy.
Clotheshorses stomping the city streets in celebration of New York Fashion Week are doing so in Adam Sandler-style, rocking baggy, yet bougie bottoms as casually swank toasts of the town.
“It’s Adam Sandler chic fall,” announced NYC fashionista , Shannon, to her nearly 13,000 TikTok followers while donning a pair of loose-fitting jorts — aka jean shorts. “Spread the word.”
And it’s spreading like a voguish virus.
While making their way to runway shows attended by the A-list likes of Anna Wintour, Rihanna, Paris Hilton and Camilla Cabello, flocks of fashion plates wowed in a variety of cozy cut-offs inspired by the 58-year-old “Wedding Singer” star.
Although a unlikely hero in the world of haute, Sandler has become a style icon to unfussy Gen Z and millennial tastemakers with a penchant for his laissez faire flair.
The Brooklynite’s comfy couture initially caught the eye of social media content creators post-COVID. The immediate aftermath of the plague marked a time when wearing old T-shirts and basketball shorts became the standard for trendsetters who’d grown accustomed to dressing down during lockdown.
“He’s the ultimate ‘f—k you’ of fashion,” Robert Verdi, former host of E!’s “Fashion Police,” previously told The Post of the “Click” comedian, who’s reportedly worth an estimated $440 million. “In the wake of COVID we’ve all realized that materialism doesn’t matter.
And after several years since the onset of the pandemic, Sandler-fashion fever remains at an all-time high.
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