My Day In Jeggings By Marcy Beckerman Analysis

In “My Day in Jeggings – Confessions of an Average Guy in Extraordinary Pants”, Marty Beckerman describes his experience in wearing female jeggings, where he focuses not only in the social aspect of what people thought about him, but he expresses his own thoughts about what it actually feels like to use the garment. He explains his experience throughout funny and relatable things modern people (teenager & young adults) can relate to, as he is a professional humorist. If he had used a more serious tone for this piece, it wouldn’t have been as interesting as it is now. This is not to say that this is not a serious topic, it’s just the way Beckerman formulates his statements makes it easier to follow. Further into the piece it is noticed that

Although Conan just did it as a joke, Beckerman thinks that jeggings aren’t designed for men and it’s not very pleasing to see them wearing it. He emphasizes on jeggings not being available to men in regular clothing stores. So Beckerman ended wearing women jeggings, he writes “I would have to cross a sacred barrier” (Beckerman 308). It’s so called “sacred” since wearing another gender’s cloth is looked down by society and is generally related to homosexuality. Beckerman was confused at the moment of trying them on, as he has already crossed the barrier, he says “Should I use the men’s fitting rooms or the women’s” (Beckerman 308), this was done as a satirical comment, but it relates to the phase of him trying something that is “forbidden” and not looked great by today’s

Once they were on, Beckerman says that it felt like a “NASA rocket Launch”(Beckerman 308), over exaggerating the process in which he goes through actually putting them on, it give the impression that trying out women’s jeggings as a men, feels completely different from anything men are used to feel in terms on putting on clothes. He encountered some problems wearing the jeggings, one of them is the “Bulge”, he uses this term in order to create a break from the article, and to make the audience feel that despite this is a serious topic, and the article should be taken lightly. After they were on, Beckerman says “… the material conformed to my body like a technological wonder substance from an advanced civilization”, he makes the audience think that a pair of simple jeggings are a technological advance, something like the next iPhone or the best Lamborghini. Being the incredible thing he describes, he decides to purchase them and go to the streets. As he walked down the streets of New York he describes, “I felt as if I were naked in a meat freezer, except without the delicious meat” (Beckerman 310), Beckerman is comparing his legs