White bib shorts aren't a good idea. They never have been and they never will be.
But it appears whoever designed the new FDJ kit for 2015 doesn't care what we think, and has gone with the tight whites anyway, as modelled here by 2014 Tour de France podium finisher Thibaut Pinot.
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