I absolutely despise the continuing trend of men’s shorts becoming longer and baggier. Every year that passes, it becomes more and more difficult to find a pair that fits me well.
I’m 5’9" with a 31 inch waist. I’m lucky if I can find 2 or 3 pairs in the entire mall that are 32’s, but if I gained a bunch of weight and became anywhere between a 38-46 inch waist, I’d have my pick of about 50 different pairs. Also, so many of them are ‘pleated for comfort’. I don’t need them pleated, I don’t want them pleated, I don’t like them pleated. I don’t need the comfort. My waist and legs aren’t so large that I need the extra room that is afforded by the pleats. A corresponding problem is that the pleats make the whole leg even baggier. I don’t want them snug, but I also don’t want them large enough to comfortably slip both legs into each leg hole.
Finally, why can’t I find a pair with an inseam that will come to my knee? I’d prefer them to end about 1" above my knee, but all I can ever find are shorts with a fracking 10" inseam that come below the knee. Pretty soon they’ll just do away with shorts altogether and have men wearing capris.
The guy in the picture at the store is wearing the shorts I want, and they come about 1" above the knee. I guess he’s about 6’4" though, because that brand and style on me come to the top of my shins.
And since this is the pit, fucking fuck you, you baggy-short manufacturing motherfuckers.
I just want a pair with a 31 or 32 inch waist, non-pleated, without the elastic waist, that end just above my knee. Is that really too much to ask?
FYI, posting this sentence means you suck at posting and are a failure as a Pit OP. I hate you.
And I’m coming from the opposite end of the spectrum – I can’t find shorts that are long enough so I don’t look like a 70’s basketball player. I want longer shorts! Longer!
Yeah, must be mighty difficult being able to walk into the store and know immediately whether or not they have your size because it’s by a logical, common measurement.
Try being a chick- you might be a size 8 in one store, a 12 in another a 14 in another. Hell, not even different stores- you can grab two of the same pairs of pants in the same size and they’ll fit differently.
It’s a common fallacy that men’s sizing is logical and corresponds to waist size. Trust me, it doesn’t. I wanted to make a surprise pair of pajama pants for MrWhatsit a couple of years ago, and needed to get his waist size without his knowing about it. So I got out a tape measure and measured the waist of a few pairs of his jeans. What was supposedly a 34-inch waist ranged anywhere from 33 inches to 38 inches. When you buy “relaxed fit” or “comfort fit” or whatever, it really means they’re adding inches to the waist measurement without telling you. Men’s clothing is not immune from vanity sizing, trust me.
As a short woman with particular ideas on how stuff should fit, I feel your pain. Go to the dry cleaners and have them hemmed and taken in. It’s worth it. Seriously. I’m sick to death of clothes that fit someone else. I just pay the extra money to get the fit I want.
Probably so. I’m 6’5"…no problem buying shorts that suit me fine. Long pants though (or long sleeved shirts) are another matter. Mostly there are no tall sizes, and even those are too short by a couple of inches.
I don’t know how you chicks put up with that. If they tried that with mens clothes, 1/2 the men in America would be walking around in bedsheets and tennis shoes.
I went out for a bike ride this weekend, and put on some shorts. The legs snagged on my gear lever! The legs! It’s ridiculous, but I’m going to have to tie them for riding like I would a pants cuff.
“…and introducing this year’s line of Men Capris…the Chicago Bulls!”
Well, I’ve never had a complaint about my getaway sticks, but as a 6’4" fella typically anything less than the long baggies end up making me look like Dangle from Reno911. And in truth, they’re comfortable as all get out with no danger of a slipout.
As a fellow 5’9, 31" waister, I agree completely. I don’t limit this to shorts though, I’m lucky to find a single pair of anything less than 32". And without pleats?? Good luck! Not to mention “small” shirts outside the children’s section. I used to have no problems finding stuff at Stein-Mart but in the past few years they have really skewed bigger (IMHO).
I’m not saying they should make shorts that fit me to the exclusion of all of the other shorts, it’s just that the long baggies are the only ones out there. Nor do I want ball-huggers, either, Cluricaun. I thought that was clear in my OP, the part where I said I want a pair that end just above the knee. Note how it didn’t say they should end just below my hairy bean-bag.
And women, yes, I empathize. Since I’m not a woman though, is my own complaint not pit-worthy? Feel free to start one about women’s sizes, since I don’t think we’ve had one yet this month.
I was just complaining to my wife about this very problem last week. Fortunately, I found some shorts at Land’s End (landsend dot com) that have a 6" inseam and are plain front. That’s just above the knee. They have the longer styles, too (9" and 11", I think).
You also might try searching online for sites that sell Patagonia brand. They have shorts with 5" inseams. That’s a little too short for me at 6’4".
Try some of the higher end preppie stores, i.e. LL Bean or Lands End or Brooks Brothers. I’m sure they have something along the lines what you’re looking for. Navy or khaki golf shorts kind of a thing.
Men’s shorts are ridiculous. I call the “man-pris”. If you want to wear shorts, wear shorts. If you want to wear pants, wear pants.
I know that the decent-legged guys look much better in shorts that are 1-3" above the knees. This increasing bizarre modest clothing movement for men is really stupid.
Not just swimming trunks, either. I went to my son’s soccer game a couple of weeks ago and a couple of the kids on the other team were playing in shorts that came down almost to their ankles. Why would you do that?