Posted on Mar 30, 2012

15 Celebrities Who Attempted (And Mostly Failed) To Do Hammer Pants Justice

MC Hammer turned 50 on Friday! He may be done with his namesake pants — but plenty of celebrities have attempted to bring them back over the years.

by Amy Odell

BuzzFeed Staff

A few years ago, Hammer pants — also known as harem pants — became a truly disturbing fashion trend on the runways. Celebrities everywhere started wearing them, in all sorts of colors, patterns, and volumes. But while MC Hammer himself said in 2009 that he's distancing himself from the pants, practically every celebrity in recent memory has worn them, in public, in front of cameras, gleaming with confidence (why?). In honor of Mr. Hammer's 50th birthday today, I graded some celebrity attempts to do for the pants what the man did himself.