Why do the Chinese wear the ugliest clothes to work (7 photos)

Went to work? Wear your ugliest, disgusting outfit. This is the trend that urban youth in China have embraced. And she does this to piss off her bosses.





Of course, pajamas, you can’t just separate a Chinese man from his PAJAMAS

At the same time, the trend has grown so rapidly that it has already “crushed” all the fashion bloggers on social networks who were showing off their looks. Everyone had to change their minds and share photos of their ugly clothes.

Where it all started

From the Internet, like many youth trends. The hashtag “Why do young people always go to work in ugly clothes” has gone viral on the Chinese social network Weibo? 140 million replies and reads from people eager to share their bows.



The girl shared her photo on social networks. Attention to shoes!

Pajamas with knee-high boots, socks under high heels, a pink coat and an ugly balaclava and other monsters of Chinese fashion that are scary to even look at.

And all because one day an employee of a street restaurant complained online that her boss scolded her for coming in warm leggings and a fleece sweatshirt (it’s cold to work outside). He scolded her that such thick, unfeminine clothes were bad.





This year everyone is buying up cheap black down jackets, although before they wanted to show off

And all of China was outraged! She works hard work for pennies (yuan), and they also give her a fashionable sentence and tell her how to dress. And everyone who is dissatisfied with their life, the hard work and salary staged such a mini-revolt.

They began to wear everything that was old and no longer fashionable to work in order to save money on buying “stylish” clothes. Young people even compete with each other to see who can dress more economically and strangely for work.



Well, I don’t know, in my opinion the one on the right is not ugly at all. Showing off "oh, I'm so unfashionable." Poseur.

“I work for a meager salary with stupid colleagues, who should I even dress up for?” - girls share on Weibo.

Changing the social paradigm

After the Lunar New Year in February this year, the "ugly clothing" trend returned with a vengeance. Moreover, it was cold in February, so everyone decided to just wear warm, ugly down jackets everywhere (they are cheaper).

Although previously, even in ordinary factories, workers tried to buy more fashionable and branded things in order to outdo their colleagues. But the trend among young people has changed; saving now is not a shame. And being pretentious is funny.



In general, everyone wears comfortable slippers and pajama pants, nothing like that

China's National Bureau of Statistics reports that employees worked an average of 49 hours per week in 2023, up from 47.9 hours in 2022. As a popular saying on the Chinese internet goes: “Survival comes first, everything else can wait.”

This is how difficult economic conditions shape trends throughout the country, quite an interesting observation. And at the same time, this is a chance to demonstrate your alienation towards work. Show that work that eats up all the time is not their life. Many workers simply feel like they don't have the time or energy to look their best.



That warm pink robe, you can lie down in it and sleep in the snow!

This craze is the latest online take on office work. In recent years, buzzwords have emerged that reflect people’s desire to give up their ambitions for high salaries and become “buddha-like” or refusal to participate in the career rat race and “lie down” (I have also written about this phenomenon among the youth of China).



Kugurumi chicken, I would proudly wear this!