Shoppers blast Balenciaga's $1,200 sweatpants with sewn-in boxers as racist: 'they've really just gentrified sagging'

Balenciaga's "Trompe I'oeil" pants mimic the style with plaid boxer print sewn above the hemline.

Here's a nigger model for ya Balenciaga!

Balenciaga is the latest high-fashion brand under fire for cultural appropriation as shoppers and social-media users blast a pair of $1190 sweatpants that appear to mimic "sagging," a style originally popularized by Black youth.

One shopper posted a viral TikTok of the Balenciaga pants hanging on a store rack, which was then reposted on Twitter with the caption: "They've really just gentrified sagging." The blog Hot New Hip Hop first reported on the backlash.

"This feels very racist Balenciaga," one person says in the video as they inspect the pants. "They've woven the boxers inside the trouser."

Sagging, a style where pants are worn low enough to reveal the boxers underneath, was outlawed in some cities as recently as 2019.
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