Challenge: Make A Silly Tred Fashionable

This is a massive topic, but it'll be fun if people give it a chance. In the OTL, some trends that may otherwise seem silly took off. For instance, wristwatch and fedora were both women's items, but became popular with men. All sorts of funny facial hair styles were the rage through the 19th century. And, but for a twist of fate, men might be the ones wearing dresses while women wore pants.

So your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to take something we'd consider silly and make it trendy and fashionable.
 

Stephen

Banned
King George the Second decides that the Black Watch looks smashing in there kilts and orders all infantry units to wear them. Many of Britains victories over the French and over armies is atributed to the greater freedom of movement provided by the kilt over tight breeches and the quicker marches that result. Thus it becomes patriotic among the civilian classes to wear kilts too, and trousers become seen as specialised riding aparel.
 

Hendryk

Banned
Frankly, there are so many examples of silly trends in OTL, one needn't invent more. Look at what passed for the height of masculine elegance in Europe circa 1700: big wig, make-up, bright colors, frills, silk stockings, high-heel shoes. Those aristocrats dressed like bloody Lady Gaga.

As for present-day fashion, I don't think any counterfactual historian would think that a trend involving wearing one's pants dangling at the hips like it's about to fall off would have any plausibility if suggested in a work of fiction.
 
Superhero fans start wearing their underwear over the trousers and this catches on in the general population?

Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister to openly wear a "reversal" as he walks into 10 Downing Street carrying his guitar...

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 

Hendryk

Banned
Superhero fans start wearing their underwear over the trousers and this catches on in the general population?

Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister to openly wear a "reversal" as he walks into 10 Downing Street carrying his guitar...
In stark contrast with his immediate predecessor.

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In stark contrast with his immediate predecessor.

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I was thinking of making it John Major because of those cartoons, but in reality he wasn't the type to really do it. Blair on the other hand I could see doing it to curry favour with the hip and young

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
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