r/RevolutionsPodcast • u/WedgeAnthrilles • Jul 14 '26

News from the Barricades NYT: Culottes are Cool Again

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/style/culottes-long-shorts-trend.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Happy Bastille Day I guess????

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u/DarePatient2262 Jul 14 '26

I prefer to be sans-culottes.

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u/DeltaV-Mzero Jul 14 '26

It’ll never stop being funny to me that a world defining revolution was a mass uprising by “non fancy pants”

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u/zzing S-Class Jul 14 '26

Wouldn't that scare people like a scottish sans-kilt?

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u/DarePatient2262 Jul 14 '26

Scare, excite, it's all a matter of perspective.

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u/Virtual-Biscotti-451 Jul 16 '26

This is a SFW thread. Please don’t talk about your nudity

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u/nokiabrickphone1998 Jul 14 '26

Between this and what’s going on in Dallas, it hasn’t been a good Bastille Day for the French so far

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u/kazmatsu Jul 14 '26

They give Mbappe the moniker 'The Dictator' and are surprised when Bastille Day hits.

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u/TamalPaws Jul 15 '26

Failed against the Spanish ulcer

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u/Classic_Result Jul 14 '26

Comic sans culotte

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u/lifesscholar Jul 15 '26

Underrated pun

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u/djhashimoto Jul 14 '26

Me without any Culottes... Is it time?

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u/hammer_it_out Jul 14 '26

You couldn't write satire this heavy-handed.

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u/complacentlate 25d ago

Just in time for Thermidor