We are not married. I bought him what he wanted. I came in here to ask what the fuck is up with men’s shorts, and you claim that you don’t give a shit about what you wear, and yet you came in here to harangue me about haranguing other people.
Sorry, I thought he was your husband, for some reason.
The tone of your OP was not one of someone honestly seeking information about men’s opinions of clothes, but of of someone bitching that her boyfriend didn’t want to wear what she wanted him to wear, and saying that anyone who disagrees with her aesthetic clothing taste is “abnormal.”
So why do you even know what the tone of my OP was, since you don’t give a shit about clothes again? Just curious.
Because the real tone was clear even in your thread title. A question that begins with “what is your problem…” is not a question honestly seeking information.
I get how someone wouldn’t want to wear a certain style because it doesn’t look good on their body or isn’t age approriate. But this “real men don’t show their knees” stuff? She’s a whoosh, no?
By the way, you do realize that when your shorts come down to your shins you look short and stumpy, right?
“You don’t know the best shorts for your husband, lady! I do!”
/thread
So, even though you don’t have a problem with ANY clothes, since you don’t give a shit…
Also, HE IS NOT MY HUSBAND. WE LIVE IN SIN. Sweaty, frequent sin. Thankyou.
You BF is correct, shorts above the knee are out of fashion now. You wear shorts BELOW the knee.
My shorts come right above the knee and I look out of place at the gym. Everyone has below the knee shorts, when these shorts wear out I’ll buy new ones at the current length.
It’s simple fashion. Ask yourself would you wear out of fashion items 'cause your BF asked you?
Th OP was addressed to “men” in general, not to her SO. It’s more like “why won’t all men wear what I want them to wear?”
I don’t think this is actually is still the “fashion-forward” position. In addition to the AA look above, here’s the NYT style blog, with photos from the shows, on the matter. Notice all of the shorts end above the knee.
**HOOOORAY **for Sweaty, Frequent Sin!
p. s. I think men just don’t like their knees.
The simple answer of course is (as I subtly alluded to in my first post 
) is that it is completely irrational, in the sense there is no particular reason for it. Many guys, including me, just don’t like them. Heck I’m not even all that fond of short-sleeved shirts and I couldn’t really give you a good reason why. I suppose one might speculate that far more women are brought up getting used to skirts and such and thus are more comfortable with bare legs, but I wore shorts occasionally as a kid and I suspect most boys did as well. At some point they just lost their appeal.
I’d just shrug your shoulders, roll your eyes and forget about it. If he wants to drown in body secretions while jogging in sweats in NC, so be it. Probably lose a few extra pounds that way :).
As a 40+ year-old male who owned and wore 70s era running shorts - I wear all types of shorts. My inventory:
My Soccer ref shorts are mid-thigh at best.
My official Boy Scouts of America shorts are mid-thigh.
The uniforms that my soccer teams wears are mid-thigh (depending on the height of the player).
My oft-ridiculed by the hipsters cargo shorts are closer to the knee, but not that close.
All of my REI zip off hiking pants turn into mid-thigh shorts.
My Tommy Bahama silk shorts are mid-thigh.
I got nuthin’ that goes to my knees clam-digger / Jams style anymore.
First I liked you for your polite question about shorts/courageous campaign to cajole your boyfriend into dressing how you want. Then I find out you’re cool enough to wear tights. Now you’ve gone and known what my user name is a reference to. I think I’m in love.
They’re really not fashionable though. Unfortunately, this thread has kind of been derailed by people who don’t know the difference between a skirt and a dress and are deathly afraid that seeing their own legs will make them love cock. But most women I’ve talked to all like shorts above the knee on men. So it’s not like the top fashion designers are all talking about how fashionable men are wearing culottes to run in. For some reason, men have become afraid of their knees and most women still like a normal length.
Personally, if women and men disagreed on a particular point about what looks better on men I’d at least want my girlfriend to tell me what she thinks most women find appealing. And not because I’d be gearing up to leave her either. Just because women are on average pretty good at what looks good.
But at the very least it might be interesting to talk about, if you happen to care at all about how you look, right?
The reference to a skirt in the Sharapova link above was quite correct. All dresses contain a skirt. I’m not sure why you would think that was wrong.
So does my ski jacket.
Short shorts just make me think of those 1980s-style pale blue satin things with white stripes down the side, and I don’t think I’ll ever get over it. It’s an irreversible effect of my upbringing.
Knee length is the minimum.
So we married or hooked-up guys should conform to severe modesty standards, then, so no other woman can see what we look like? Sounds like another part of the world, except there it’s the women that are shrouded.
Is there no middle ground? Must the alternative to manpris show ass-cheek? What on earth is wrong with “normal shorts”, which everybody but Diogenes would probably say are somewhere between your knees and your giblets, but near neither?