Skimpy trunks, slides with socks, sagging pants return to menswear this season

Expect to see swim trunks, slides with socks, and sagging pants on the rise as the stars of fashion this season. Photo: AFP

Fashion's current appetite for all things "ugly" knows no bounds, it seems.

While women have recently had the pleasure of reconnecting with cycling shorts, Crocs and jelly shoes – relics of decades past – menswear is now doing its part to embrace some of fashion's worst-offending styles.