--- title: How Dogs Would Wear Pants: Internet Debates description: The question of whether dogs would wear pants on all four legs or just the back two is basically the new "What color is this dress?" canonical: https://time.com/4163516/dog-pants-internet-debate/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-29T21:25:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:48.002Z og:title: The Internet's Latest Debate: How Would a Dog Wear Pants? og:description: The most divisive question since "What color is this dress?" og:url: https://time.com/4163516/dog-pants-internet-debate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet's Latest Debate: How Would a Dog Wear Pants? twitter:description: The most divisive question since "What color is this dress?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Internet's Latest Debate: How Would a Dog Wear Pants? ## Video: Dogs in Costume: Halloween Dog Parade [Watch (HLS stream): Dogs in Costume: Halloween Dog Parade](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/jEhRhyl1.m3u8) (1:54)  _Published 2013-10-30. Each year, New York's Thompkins Square Park hosts a Halloween Dog Parade, with more than 400 dogs in attendance._ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 29, 2015 9:25 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 29, 2015 9:25 PM UTC Okay, it’s time to ask yourself an important question. Dogs don’t wear pants, but if they did, what would those pants look like? Turns out, this is quite the conundrum. The following image has been spreading rapidly around sites like Reddit, Facebook and Twitter — and it’s got everybody talking: The question of whether dogs would wear pants on all four legs or just the back two is basically the new [“What color is this dress?”](http://time.com/3725356/dress-blue-black-white-gold/) But according to a poll on one of the most retweeted versions of the image, the majority of people are going with back legs only: > [](https://twitter.com/jaredbkeller/status/681677529464356864) One person on [Reddit offered](https://www.reddit.com/user/postapocalyptictribe) a very logical answer: “Well pants are a human invention so if they were to wear them like humans it would be like the ones on the right. However, if dogs invented dog pants it would be like the ones on the left, leaving the a–hole freely available for greetings and ice breakers.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4163516/dog-pants-internet-debate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4163516/dog-pants-internet-debate/"},"headline":"The Internet's Latest Debate: How Would a Dog Wear Pants?","datePublished":"2015-12-29T21:25:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:48.002Z","description":"The most divisive question since \"What color is this dress?\"","url":"https://time.com/4163516/dog-pants-internet-debate/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4163516/dog-pants-internet-debate/","name":"The Internet's Latest Debate: How Would a Dog Wear Pants?"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Dogs in Costume: Halloween Dog Parade","description":"Each year, New York's Thompkins Square Park hosts a Halloween Dog Parade, with more than 400 dogs in attendance.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/jEhRhyl1/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2013-10-30T16:21:05.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/jEhRhyl1.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4163516/dog-pants-internet-debate/","duration":"PT1M54S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4163516/dog-pants-internet-debate/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```