Whenever it looks like actor Adam Sandler has achieved Sandler maximum fit, featuring a dizzyingly comfortable combination of sportswear and highly entertaining vacation wear, he always tries to get ahead of himself. “You are your own best competitor,” or yet, the appropriate idiom still goes on.
This week, Sandler took a rainy day outing with his wife, Jackie, to the Brentwood Country Mart in Santa Monica, wearing what at this point the internet would classify as a classic Sandler Fit: a Columbia’s olive green zip-up fleece over an overcoat. Hawaiian floral shirt, a pair of peach-bellini-orange basketball shorts and his favorite couple of the classic mini Ugg boots in chocolate brown.
The fact that Sandler manages to implement new clothing alchemy, creating new recipes while recycling old elements, is part of his sleazy magic. (That, or a complete lack of sense of self.) The shoes he chooses — Hoka running sneakers, Uggs sans socks that are almost overripe — embody positive, prioritizing realism. top for comfort. Uggs, before the sleazy princess rebirth in the early 2000s, was designed to offer practical warmth; The brand initially marketed them as surf shoes after a 1970s surfer Malibu put on a pair of Australian sheepskin boots after a chilly day in the waves. Uggs tend to look their coolest when worn with this tradition: wear a really stylish briefcase with whatever else you have to grab your daily newspaper on the sidewalk or walk from the sand to the driveway. go boardwalk. (Depending on your luxury metric, this logic can also be used to explain the appeal of Mary Kate Olsen’s scratched Hermés Kelly bag.)
With his roots as a surfer, maybe this is also why Uggs looks so cool in shorts, which brings us to another side male alchemist and notable Uggs wearer, supermodel Bella Hadid, who has great fit from last year—motorbike jacket, white mini shorts, mini Uggs platform, slice of pizza—apparently caused searches for similar Uggs to skyrocket 152% in just one day, according to data from lyst.
Today, personal style, both on the internet and in the industry at large, can resemble a sprawling gated community of different cottage industries. In some corner of the fashion industry (or fashion TikTok, popularized by words and phrases like “quirky” or “y2kcore”), you can see Bella Hadid and Adam Sandler occupy the same intersection in their profile. proverbial venn clothes of contemporary fashion.
