If your supply of Cucumber Melon Nair suspiciously starts going missing, blame your boyfriend. If designers like Prada have their way, men will soon take fashion cues from the runways and start wearing shorts that look like they came out of your closet.
I’m all for personal style and taking fashion risks, but short shorts on men make a fashion statement that, frankly, I don’t want to see. From easter-colored to formal, this new trend of thigh-skimming shorts just looks inappropriate—more suitable for the bedroom than strutting down the street. Besides, how many men do you know that could actually pull off this shorter length with their board-short tan lines and carpet of leg hair?
Fashion forward? Maybe. But looking through Prada’s collection, each short-shorts look more nauseating than the last, I can’t help but think fashion is playing a big joke on us all—-as evidenced by the pairing of formal shorts, sandals, and what suspiciously looks like a pair of slouchy wool socks.
Until I see this fashion nightmare in person, I’ll just hold on to the hope that this eyesore will stay confined to the runway and away from my line of vision.
Short Shorts For Boys?
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reminds me of my elementary school gym teacher…NOT GOOD
What’s wrong with men wearing short shorts…. I am 150lbs with beautiful biker legs. Why is it ok for a women to show her legs but not for a man? Do agree, that legs should be shaved but other than that nothing wrong…. It is funny how women have been able to gain a complete fashion freedom thru the years, but men have been going backward with very rigid rules. It is time for men to regain their fashion freedom!
i see no problem with shorts that are above the knee. actually, living in a country like australia (or any other warmer clime), i am incredibly grateful that fashion in shorts is now above the knee - i.e. much cooler! and i don’t understand why it is appropriate for women to wear shorts that reveal almost everything, but inapproproate for men to wear shorter shorts.
granted, they aren’t really amenable to being dressed up as more formal wear, but as for casual, and smart casual in warmer climates, shorts above the knee are fine with me!
Short shorts are fine, provided that the guy wearing them shaves his legs regularly
I think that men have been scared away from short shorts and its been made politically incorrect for them to wear. But speaking on my behalf I wish men could have as much fashion freedom as women. And I would like, some day, to be able wear short shorts in public.
Move to San Fransisco Jake. You can wear any shorts you want and act any way you please.
note to Timi:I wear the short shorts all the time.I had my legs lasered.Would you like a pic of them?
I am accustomed to wearing shorts that have an inseam of no longer than three inches. Where I grew up that was the norm. So were mens bikini bathing suits. I have also grown accustomed to seeing women in shorts/bathing suits that do not shave their legs. So, I really don’t understand what you folks are so hung up on. BTW, I have never shaved my super hairy legs! Also, I grew up in the really south part of Miami.
when I was younger mens/boys shorts had inseams form 5 to 6 inches and pants that went to the knee were called capis and reserved for women, today mens shorts are knee lenght baggy “capris” and in my opinion to long and to hot in the summer this year I am cutting of my old jeans to about 5 or so inches maby less.
Back in the seventies there were a few males, like myself, who wore bum high, crotch high cutoff shorts just like women were wearing. I think it was a logical reaction to feminism as well as part of the anti war movement, and an attempt to say that men should have the same social freedoms that women have. Unfortunately most women, despite their vaunted beliefs in equality, were quite offended by beauty boys showing off their thighs in public, be it in hot pants or flowery speedoes, so now, despite all the equal rights talk over the past forty years, men are back to being straight-jacketed into a rigid sex role–below the knee shorts, below the knee swimming suits, and any male who tries to violate that role is subjected to derision,gay bashing, sexist bullying, and sometimes even arrest from the police state. Perhaps the right wing needed to reprogram young males to a more rigid sex role so that they would be more willing to fight imminent wars. Hip hop has served the police state quite well. Once again men are stupidly doing the bulk of dying in war, only this time there is no anti war movement–no feminists saying, “Hey, look at what monsters men have become.”.
I am from the 60’s & 70’s era and I like shorts that are 3″ to 3 1/2″ inseam.What they are wearing today (men & boys) are just long pants that are to short.The reason most people wear shorts is to stay cooler.The more skin out ,the cooler you stay.Good rule of thumb “let your arms hang down straight and at the end of the fingers cut the shorts)In most cases it will be 3′ to 4′ inseam.
First,a 3″ or longer is NOT a short short. It is dumb & stupid that men are told by the “fashion police” and others that they have to wear those baggy,sloppy looking oversize cargo shorts. I live in Florida so during the tropical summer so called “short shorts” are the only way to be comfy outdoors. If it bothers you stop staring !
I’m sick of those cargo baggies. They’re vile to use on the playing field and ghastly when swimming- flapping about. Short shorts are not only inherently logical but much pleasanter in use. However the fashion industry regards male thighs a as a faux pas- very wrong thankyou v much.This doesn’t apply to female fashion.The predominant view is extraordinarily sexist and time that people lightened up. If it’s an issue of sex appeal then short shorts can also be sexy on men too; it’s just about application and overcoming prejudice and narrow mindedness.
I agree. When I was a kid/adolescent in the 80’s, men and women both wore shorts that were 3-4 inch inseams. It could be a “carry-over” from the 70’s or what not, but I CLEARLY remember those shorts on guys ALL OVER THE PLACE! Not just on guys that had a nice body, no, guys with beer guts, thin guys, etc. I agree that shorts with a 3″ inseam or longer are NOT short-shorts, they are just shorts, so QUIT CALLING THEM SHORT-SHORTS!!! To me short-shorts are the “hot pants” style that have about a 1″ inseam or less! Look at most women’s shorts, they have about a 3-4 inch inseam. Quite a few of those women would argue that they’re just shorts, not short-shorts.
It’s really too bad I live in a place where it’s winter all the time. I’d love to see some of the guys in my area wear these…
Just as long as the shorts stay south of Lt. Dangle.
I’m a 23 year old straight male. I love wearing short shorts (2″ or less inseam). I have a bubble butt and tanned, smooth, and muscular legs, which I love showing off. I get compliments all the time from men and women. I have a girlfriend and she likes grabbing my butt when I wear these shorts. They’re also very practical for running and other physical activities.
AHAHAHAH! Wearing shorts is considered political. OMFG! See what happens when you let feminists run rampant! Just wear the fucking things!
I don’t consider shorts that are 2″ or longer to be “short shorts”. They’re just shorts. I think if a guy looks good, he should wear shorts that are truly shorts, not some baggy short cargo pants.
Does anyone know where to buy these Prada (or other good quality) shorts? I would like to get some. Because if we don’t support the trend by pulling out our wallets, it will probably go away.
I still remember the 80’s fondly, when all of the hot guys were wearing 2″ cotton Adidas shorts!
I had just bought a pair of “dressy” shorts, actually 4″ inseam, I wore them once and folks stared at me, or maybe it was me feeling like they were, I am not sure, but I did feel awkward. I keep my legs shaved, I think the shorts look better on hairless legs. But living in upstate NY I guess is not the place to wear them…back to the fugly baggy long ones. I really think short down to knees are really not shorts mid thigh are what I call shorts.
I’m a straight guy who remembers the eighties. I’m not sure I want to wear 2″ inseam tight shorts in public, but I am looking for shorter — 5-6″ inseam — shorts because I’m sick and tired of the “little boy-baggy-down-to-your-calves” look which is propagated by are increasingly obese population who like to hide underneath the “baggy look.” Yo, I’m not down with urban chique no mo’, you feel me?”
I’m short, slender, and though not a stud by any means, somewhat athletic. I’m moving towards clothes with more fit because I look better in them, and I’m proud of the fact that at 40+ I still sport a waist — a rarity nowadays.
Besides shorts, I think men’s swim suits, the board shorts, are way too long. I don’t want to drag so much fabric when I swim, nor do I want to cover so much skin when the point is to be in the sun. I’m not a knarly surfer or rad skateboarder and don’t want to dress like one.
I love to wear shorts and I love to see men wearing shorts. I like showing off my legs and I like tanning my legs. I wear shorts as much as possible, only problem is I do not have a job wear I can wear shorts. If I had my way, it would be a law for men to be in shorts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.
It’s so bizarre when people say non-baggy shorts look gay. Do you think straight guys design fashions? Who do you think decreed back in the 90s that from now on only calf-length, super-baggy anti-shorts would be the style?
Seems to me young women who think bloomers on men are sexy have been spending way too much time reading fashion mags and not near enough time looking at real men.
Thigh-length shorts and swimming trunks for men aren’t just a 70s or 80s thing. From the 1920s on, men’s shorts were just… shorts. Practical, comfortable, and (incidentally) sexy. Look at Sean Connery’s James Bond, Jack Kennedy, Cary Grant. Look at prize fighters and basketball players anytime before 1990. Men shaved their faces, not their legs.
In the 90’s, mostly gay fashion designers, desperate for something outrageous for their Paris collections, latched onto the street gang look and pushed it to absurd(er) lengths. Buyers for chain stores stocked up on baggy shorts (and also those ridiculous pleated trousers) as a planned-obsolescence gimmick, forcing everyone to empty their closets and buy new stuff. Suddenly there was nothing else available but baggy, pleated, synthetic, logo-ed, overpriced clown pants.
Now Americans are convinced there’s something vulgar about men showing their knees!
Americans, you’ve been had. Sure, gross hairy men don’t look good in shorts. They don’t look good in anything. But why should average men have to cover themselves up in nylon tents to avoid offending girls in string bikinis?
people are only jealous. short shorts rock on the right body type. trouble is those that sit around and complain about things like this all the time are the fat asses that know they’d look awful in anything revealing. plus i think discretion should be used. for instance, you don’t want to see an overly hairy guy in short shorts or a really fat chick in a mini skirt. so if you got it, flaunt it. otherwise, all you boring middle-class cattle, stick to your daily uniforms of cargo shorts and polo’s and leave the fabulous clothes to all of us who have the right to show off
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