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🍑 to the max.

By Chelsea Peng

Apr 19, 2017

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If you've somehow avoided the internet for the past few days, you will still probably know that Vetements and Levi's have made jeans that zip along the crotch...all the way from back to front, meaning that, if you wanted to, you could expose your backside for all the world to see. Original! Timely! But butt-less trousers have a cheeky past, which we explore below.

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#VETEMENTSxLEVIS @mytheresa.com @kevingiacco

A post shared by VETEMENTS (@vetements_official) on Apr 12, 2017 at 4:08am PDT

These are Those Jeans. They are on sale now at MyTheresa for a cool $1,870, which is still a considerable investment if you want to do it for the 'gram but aren't an influencer, and even more of a considerable investment if you would like to not take 3.2 hours per bathroom trip.

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#VETEMENTSxLEVIS @netaporter @viviuniverse

A post shared by VETEMENTS (@vetements_official) on Apr 17, 2017 at 1:42am PDT

The (baby got) back view.

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<p>Now we go back into time to the OG ass-less pants, which is actually kind of a redundant term, given that chaps, by definition, do not have seats. It took a lot of iterations to go from utilitarian, apron-like leg coverings so you wouldn't get cut up riding through rough terrain to $2K jeans, but that's fashion for you. </p>

Now we go back into time to the OG ass-less pants, which is actually kind of a redundant term, given that chaps, by definition, do not have seats. It took a lot of iterations to go from utilitarian, apron-like leg coverings so you wouldn't get cut up riding through rough terrain to $2K jeans, but that's fashion for you.

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<p>Here, we've got chaps as worn by followers of fetish/leather culture...</p>

Here, we've got chaps as worn by followers of fetish/leather culture...

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<p>Which then brings us to Alexander McQueen, who borrowed from the fringe—and plumbers who forgot to pull up their waistbands—to show these slashed trousers, and later, his infamous "bumsters." </p>

Which then brings us to Alexander McQueen, who borrowed from the fringe—and plumbers who forgot to pull up their waistbands—to show these slashed trousers, and later, his infamous "bumsters."

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Skip ahead to Xtina, who wore chaps in her video for "Dirrty."

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Can I be XTINA forever 😩😩

A post shared by Kylie (@kyliejenner) on Oct 30, 2016 at 3:06am PDT

And Kylie, who dressed up as Aguilera for Halloween.

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<p>A quick stop at Versace men's Fall 2014. </p>

A quick stop at Versace men's Fall 2014.

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Y/PROJECT SS17 FEMME / shot by @giovanni_giannoni_photo / styled by @ursinagysi / casting by Élodie, Oliver and Romain @creartvt_casting / make up by @carolecolombani and the @maccosmetics team / hair by #ramonaeschbach using @oribe / #yproject

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We arrive at Y/PROJECT, another painfully cool brand doing subversive things with denim, like these killer chaps-JNCOs-like hybrids and these daring pants, which spotlight the *reverse* side of your body without, somehow, being positively obscene.

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Y/PROJECT cut out jeans featured in @lords_magazine / shot by @antoine_and_balthazar / styled by @samiagiobellina / #lordsmagazine #antoineandbalthazar #samiagiobellina #yproject

A post shared by Y/PROJECT (@yproject_official) on Feb 17, 2017 at 7:17am PST

And these comparatively tame cutouts through which everybody can "I see London, I see France" you. But that play between exposing and concealing is the whole point—and it's hot.

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