Really? See, I always thought that meant extra room in the seat and thigh. Those are parts of the pants we aren’t typically given numbers for. Whereas the waist size is a numbered measurement. Now I’ll have to go check that.
Cluricaun said:
Pants that reach below the knees are called trousers. Shorts are supposed to be, you know, short.
Justin_Bailey said:
Look good? What are you, six? If I want to wear pants, I’ll put on a pair of jeans. Shorts are supposed to be short. Not Richard Simmons short, but mid thigh. zweisamkeit
It’s not about modesty, it’s catering to the baggy clothes trend of pulling your pants down below your butt cheeks. It’s about looking like a dumbass to fit in with all the other dumbasses out there.
To your reply to Justin: YES. Jesus god, those long shorts look absolutely ridiculous on you guys.
And to me: dunno about that. Most guys I know look horrified at showing any flesh above the knee but also think that having saggy pants are stupid. They just have this irrational fear of wearing shorts. And I’m not even talking about Richard Simmons shorts. These look perfectly fine, not ridiculous at all, and they’re above the knee (just for the length; I know they’re athletic shorts).
No, it does not. There is a name for shorts that are wide-legged and come to the knee or just below it. That name is culottes, and they look ridiculous. They are only worn by Pentecostal teenagers who can’t get out of gym class. Pentecostal girl who can’t get out of gym class isn’t a good look for anyone, but it’s particularly not a good look for a dude.
Give me some ridiculous looking shorts then. I wore the shorts in the 60’s and 70’s that were short. I don’t want them that short, but an inch or two above the knee would be nice. I think those long shorts look ridiculous, I want to wear shorts because it’s hot outside, not because fashion designers say they look cool.
Note that I said earlier that I like shorter shorts for guys who have the legs for it (responding to your reply to me). And a lot of younger guys have better legs than they think (again tying to that bizarre sense of modesty that they have)*.
And at 26, I don’t think I’m old. I am probably in a target dating demographic age (and female) … who laughs at guys who wear those stupid shorts.
and perhaps more of the gym buffs would have better legs if they didn’t spend all their weight time doing bench presses and bicep-curls with weights far too heavy for them, thus leaving them with decent upper bodies and then silly chicken legs.
Fashion designers don’t say they look cool. I mean clearly any clothes were designed by someone who is technically a fashion designer but I don`t hear anyone saying culottes are trendy or hip. They make them because people like wearing them, regardless of how stupid they look. You don’t exactly hear a lot from, say, Thom Brown about men’s shorts at all. And men’s fashion magazine’s like GQ certainly aren’t recommending culottes. I don’t remember a men’s fashion magazine EVER recommending culottes. If GQ were to do a piece on buying new shorts for the summer I can almost guarantee they would blast below-the-knee culotte ‘shorts’ and suggest a 7-9 inch inseam.
Unfortunately (in my opinion) I think it’s a sea-change that spans generations, much like what happened in popular music between 1955 and 1965. For all the successive genres and styles like disco, glam rock, new wave, hip-hop, grunge, etc., that have appeared since, older rock continues to resonate with young people today. Bands like U2 play to stadiums full mostly of people who were born after they started, and you still run into fifteen- and twenty-year-olds who are enthusastic Doors fans. I was fifteen in 1973, and there was no way I was going to listen to Glenn Miller or Bing Crosby. But such is the space of time that now separates today’s fifteen-year-olds from The Velvet Underground and The Doors.
So with men’s shorts–for males today fitting in is paramount irrespective of considerations of comfort. This has been the case since about 1990 and shows no signs of ever changing back. In the grand sweep of Western history, very few legendary heroes have worn shorts; instead clothes have always been a kind of psychological armor, whether it be social and political figures like Lincoln, or innovators like Edison. Full-length pants, long sleeved shirt, jacket. All the time, no matter what. The wearing of true shorts by men, in the 1960s and 1970s, was, historically speaking, an aberration.
The privilege to bare one’s skin is now virtually reserved to the female–and dont’ start with issues of toplessness, because the permission to go shirtless is pretty much limited to the beach and the pool. I’m with the OP, although I think the problem for thin guys isn’t just shorts, it’s trousers of all kinds. I have a 28 or 29 inch waist at 5’9" of height and it’s hard, shopping out there. (Giraffe, how is it possible you can’t find shorts that are long enough? There is nothing out there but long shorts.*) As for modesty–a fig for modesty! Maybe I don’t want to look at your thighs either, but if it’s 90 degrees out (with a “feels-like” temp of 100), I’m not going to bag on you for exposing them, regardless of your size, shape, or gender.
*Almost nothing–guys can get short shorts at American Apparel. Worth checking out if that’s what you want.
These aren’t bad, but they tend to look extra baggy on slender guys. When buying similar shorts for myself I’ve usually found that the overall roominess isn’t sized down very well for a <30" waist and build.
Also belts, come to think of it. I’m about to take an old belt of mine to to have it shortened by a cobbler; I’ve lost about four inches in the waist since I bought it, and it’s now too big for most of my jeans even at the innermost notch. I’m not even going to try to find a new belt like it with the third, center notch at 28 or 29.
Yeah, the trendy thing for guys now are slender shorts that hit just above the knee. Go to NYC and you don’t see the hipsters sporting the baggy cargo shorts.
Remind me never to ask what you do in your spare time, especially if it leads to videos like that. I’m so torn…the legs were great, but why, oh why were they dancing…like that.
I am a leg woman. I love a great pair of legs on a man. I hate, hate, hate the manpris. I want eye candy too! Show me a little leg, will ya?
Good luck OP. I’m suffering in solidarity with you.
If you ask me (and don’t you all want my opinion?) adults shouldn’t wear shorts at all in public anyway, except at the gym. They’re children’s clothes.
