Long Tale on Shorts
Do you remember when men’s shorts were short? What ever happened to them? It seems that in the last 30 years men’s shorts have become so long that we should stop calling them shorts. I vote for these new shorts to be called longs from now on. They have become so long in fact that some men are now wearing what seems to be woman’s culottes. What is the point of wearing these shorts? It can’t be any cooler during the summer then just wearing a light pair of linen slacks and besides, I didn’t like them on woman, why would I want to see more of this style?Since I’m ranting on the short of today, what happened to inspector number 9? He used to be so good when inspecting shorts. It seems that he has gotten a little long in the tooth and now can’t seem to notice major flaws in today’s shorts. He has let a bunch of shorts get past his keen eyes and these shorts have a major malfunction in them. It seems that these shorts do not fit properly on the youth male body. The waistbands on these shorts are so loose that they just slip from the youth’s waist and now the youths are forced to wear them just below their buttocks.
posted by Fe Man at 12:21 AM
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Do you remember when men’s shorts were short? What ever happened to them?
Too many men with no business wearing shorts were wearing Daisy Dukes. These "male capris" are the backlash, I think.
It used to be completely normal for shorts to be short and nobody thought anything about men showing their legs. It's only since the long short trend that men are ostracized if they show any part of their thigh.
A bit a trivia: The long short trend was started by none other than Michael Jordan. When he came to the NBA he still wanted to wear his college team (North Carolina) shorts for good luck under his uniform. He was not allowed to show those colors so he asked for special longer shorts to be made so they would completely conceal his NC shorts while he played. MJ was the most emulated man on the planet for an entire generation so naturally the trend caught on. Of course, they have evolved to length well beyond MJ's original necessity.
BTW, while I agree with your distaste of overly long shorts and the style of sagging your pants, I think your picture of Nadal and his Capris is a poor example. He is apparently questioned about them all the time and he explains that this style of pants is very common for men in his native Spain. So while you're welcome to dislike this style of pants, I wouldn't lump him in with the American long-shortsers as if he's pushing the trend to a further extreme. He's actually just maintaining his own personal/local style despite getting a lot of flack about it. You kind-of have to admire him for that. Besides, he's a damn good clay courter!
I like men in the longer shorts. . . my hey day the late 70's the boys basketball shorts where short. . . ok when you're young. . . old fat guys were ewwwwwwwww . . . the butt hanging out of the pants or the underware hanging out of the pants annoys the crap out of me. . . especially when the boys keep pulling them up over and over. . . I want to scream, "get a belt you idiot!" I secretly hope they fall by tripping over their pants with the crotch at their knees. I would laugh. Evil Evil I know.
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