How should a hotdog wear pants?

Estelle Tcha
Sep 11, 2017
3 min read

It is 2017 and there are still instances where we are motivated to do things and we do not have a single reason to support our explaining why.

Knowing the self is a forever-unsolved dilemma. Fairly enough so, as half of us seem to not want to, and the other half that do want to have to leave earth once they start getting the hang of the assignment. What makes it more magical is that it is not something that someone else can do for you, either (although I must say that I do turn to lovely my long time friend Elle for some introspective assistance when I am not quite sure of my scorpio self).

I cannot explain what compelled me to write online again, away from writing on stray plane tickets, receipts and moleskines, but I can surely say it all started from this #MEME (image credit: @venti.memes) :

It was tossed to me from a fellow artist whilst attending a workshop by the lovely Frances Scott, who suggested that as a warmup we write responses to an image given by the person on our left side.

First of all, I would like to publicly announce how blessed and thankful I feel for having the leisure to ponder the right way of how a hotdog should wear its pants.

My immediate response, after laughing at the ridiculous visuals of the meme of course, is that a hotdog should have all the right to wear its pants in any way it wants. How would I feel (or you feel) if someone told me how to wear my pants? Or underpants? Or anything, for that matter?

My big epiphany in which realized this, parts into two stories: 1, an acquaintance once told me I should not wear jeans because my legs were too nice for them, and jeans made them look “less beautiful”, and 2, my old roommate told me one should never wear black with beige. I thoroughly confirmed my idea that there should be no “should” in fashion, because in both cases it was clear that people did not know what they were talking about.

But then something major dawned upon me… the infamous phrase: hotdog or legs?!* For if we do have to think of it pragmatically and logically, function is a big (yet arguably partial) reason why we own items. And if by mistake, we mistook leg(s) for a hotdog (or accurately speaking, the sausage soon-to-be hotdog-ized), we must more so go back and think about the relationship between legs and pants. You and I probably will agree that pants are worn on legs mostly to cover, comfort or accessorize.

This being said, we (or more like, the hotdog) should understand where the hotdog’s leg(s) are, and think of what function the hotdog needs for said pants. This is very important. According to the hotdog’s legs' needs, the pants may change form from silk culottes to a ketchup drizzle**, so there’s a lot of clarification to be done before we decide what the legs of a hotdog need today.

So what about the jeans, you ask? I personally would not tuck in a tight top into tight pants. I also would never tuck in both sides of an outer...

But then again.

We must not forget, in the end it is solely and entirely up to the hotdog.

* <Hotdog or Legs?!>

Refer below for visual guidance if not familiar with concept.

** Culottes and ketchup are just my subjective preferences. Here are some images of beautiful hotdogs dressed up as my favorite disney princesses-- an example of infinite possibilities.

P.S. In the process of searching for visual assistance for the concept of <Hotdogs or Legs?!>, I found some more inspiring images. Please let me know via DM or email if you have any ideas and/or answers.

The function of pants here really concerns me, but mostly asking my Italian friends for help...

I think this would be more of a stylistic choice; asking 90s inspired millenials where they like to wear their chokers on their necks may be a great social experiment, parallel to the question these images seem to be posing (in that case, the second pic f'sho).