{"id":151607,"date":"2025-11-24T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151607\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:59:09","slug":"paul-mescals-sheer-shirt-doesnt-care-if-its-cold-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151607\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Mescal\u2019s Sheer Shirt Doesn\u2019t Care if It\u2019s Cold Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hamnet star isn’t alone, either. He’s simply the newest addition to the Sheer Shirt Club<\/a>\u2014a rapidly expanding group of well-dressed famous dudes who’ve decided that fabric opacity is totally optional. Austin Butler<\/a>, Brad Pitt<\/a>, Cillian Murphy<\/a>, and Jeremy Allen White<\/a> are all members, and now, Mescal’s joined the crew.<\/p>\n

So, why’s every famous man suddenly dressing like a sexy Victorian ghost? Partly, it’s the red carpet shift we’ve seen over the past few years\u2014more experimentation, more texture, more risk-taking. But mostly, it feels like a collective decision to stop caring about looking \u201cseason-appropriate.\u201d The old rules (\u201cwear wool in winter,\u201d \u201cdon’t freeze to death\u201d) are being ignored in favor of fits that feel fun, a bit daring, and a little bit unserious.<\/p>\n

It works. Not because it’s practical (absolutely not), but because it’s just the right amount of experimental. Menswear often defaults to the same navy-tuxedo<\/a>-but-make-it-slightly-different template. A sheer shirt, even in the middle of a freezing week, jolts the whole thing awake.<\/p>\n

Will you or I be wearing sheer shirts this November? Maybe. Maybe not. But it’s nice to know Paul Mescal is out there doing brave work in the dark of winter.<\/p>\n

A version of this story originally appeared on British GQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hamnet star isn’t alone, either. He’s simply the newest addition to the Sheer Shirt Club\u2014a rapidly expanding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,14652,156,111,139,69,467,2791],"class_list":["post-151607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-digital_syndication","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paul-mescal","tag-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}