A fashion expert is waging a war against men's low-rise pants, trying to get them to embrace the 'controversial' high waist instead

• Derek Guy is a men's fashion blogger with over 299,000 followers on Twitter.
• His tirade against low-rise pants went viral on the app with over 2.5 million views.

A men's fashion expert has called out the pitfalls of low-rise pants in a lengthy Twitter thread, calling on viewers to embrace a high-waist style instead.

On June 6, menswear writer Derek Guy posted a tweet that began in capital letters, imploring viewers to consider high-rise trousers, a lower garment that sits above the hips on the waistline.

In the post, which received over 2.5 million views and 12,100 likes, Guy, who's just shy of 300,000 followers, wrote that he typically addresses "menswear-obsessed guys" so it hadn't occurred to him that wearing high-rise trousers would still be "controversial" in 2023.

In two further tweets he wrote that the style of low-rise trousers had originally been made for "stick-thin models" but even "stick-thin guys" were wearing them incorrectly in a "really bland way" that elongates the torso and appears to shorten the legs.

Instead, through a series of 16 tweets, Guy made the case for high-rise pants, and the ways in which the style could work on different body types.

The menswear expert addressed a number of negative stereotypes about high-rise trousers, such as the idea that they weren't cool, were for older men, or didn't work on larger body types, alongside images of models that contradicted these assumptions.

The initial tweet received over 3,600 bookmarks, which suggested viewers were inspired or at least intrigued by the advice, and over 267 quote-tweets, many of which showed users posing in their own high-waisted trousers as they wrote they agreed with the sartorial sentiment.

Guy continued the thread with a list of reccommendations on how people could pair the higher-waisted pants with different shirts in the summer, and specific brands to consider.

Throughout the thread he also reminded people to ultimately "wear what they want" and not "dress according to trends" but encouraged people to give the trouser a try.

"If you haven't yet considered higher-rise trousers, I think you should give them a chance," he wrote.

According to his Twitter bio, Guy is the editor of men's style website Put This On, and writes about "classic men's tailoring and semi-casual attire" for the fashion blog Die, Workwear.

Over on TikTok, men appear to be taking their pants more seriously in recent months, often going viral as they ditch dated legwear like skinny jeans, and highlight the fashionable alternatives they're wearing instead.

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