What does "Bermuda Shorts" mean to you?

[pulykamell]

Here’s a cover from a knitting pattern from 1971 that refers to the knee-lengths as “Bermuda shorts.”

[Kent_Clark]

Is it too late to say that Bermuda shorts are knee-length and hemmed, and not made of denim?

[carnivorousplant]

@kunilou

Is it too late to say that Bermuda shorts are knee-length and hemmed, and not made of denim?

Yes.

[Spud]

@kunilou

Is it too late to say that Bermuda shorts are knee-length and hemmed, and not made of denim?

Well, you are welcome to your opinion… doesn’t mean ALL of us have to agree with you <cough>devilsknew<cough>

[Spud]

I just did a quick Google Image search on Bermuda Shorts. Roughly 20 some images per page, and the one and only picture of Daisy Dukes was on page 24 of 25. That was from a company called Bermuda Wear who sells all types of shorts. There were many more pictures of nail polish than there were of Daisy Dukes.

[Nava]

Wide shorts to the knee. The kind whose main difference with swimming trunks is having a fly and pockets. In Spain and before “The Dukes of Hazzard”, which anyway never got shown here, Daisy Dukes were known as “an indecency!” Now they’re called “shorts”, while Bermudas are not called shorts (this led to great confusion the first time I went to the US, as we’d been told to bring shorts but it turned out they meant knee-length ones - “that’s not shorts, that’s bermudas!”).

[Johnny_L.A]

@Cub_Mistress

Bermuda shorts are never cutoffs. They are knee length and can be dressy.

What she said. Thus, Option 3.

[BigT]

I likewise have never heard it used for cutoffs. To me it always seemed like they were the guy’s version of capris. At least, when I’ve worn my mom’s capris (long story), I was told I was wearing Bermuda shorts–but I am almost a foot taller than my mom, and at least half of that is in my legs.

[Dallas_Jones]

Bermuda shorts

Bermuda Shorts, also known as walking shorts or dress shorts, are a particular type of short trousers, now widely worn as semi-casual attire by both men and women. The hem can be cuffed or un-cuffed, around one inch above the knee.

They are so-named because of their popularity in Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory, where they are considered appropriate business attire for men when made of suit-like material and worn with knee-length socks, a dress shirt, tie, and blazer.

Never cut-offs or denim.

[Omar_Little]

@devilsknew

The question was what were “Daisy Dukes” known as before the Dykes of Hazard, Pre-'80’s? I’m telling you, they were known as “Bermudas” colloquially and back in the seventies.

Fashion FAIL.

Nope, not “bermudas”.

[woodstockbirdybird]

@devilsknew

This thread and poll is wholly ingenuous and innaccurate and out of context. The question was what were “Daisy Dukes” known as before the Dykes of Hazard, Pre-'80’s? I’m telling you, they were known as “Bermudas” colloquially and back in the seventies.

Never by anyone anywhere that I ever met during the 70s, they weren’t.

[OpalCat]

@gaffa

Weird Al Yankovic’s drummer?

This is what I was going to say.

[flodnak]

@pulykamell

Here’s a cover from a knitting pattern from 1971 that refers to the knee-lengths as “Bermuda shorts.”

Just as an aside, that’s not a knitting pattern - it’s a sewing pattern for knit fabrics.

I was a kid in the '70s, and wore a lot of hand-me-downs. When my jeans got to the point that the patches on the knees were going through, that was Mom’s cue to cut the legs short and put them aside for summer. These were always called cut-offs. “Bermudas” were always knee-length shorts that started out that way.

[Merneith]

I remember the 70’s. Cut-offs were always cut-offs regardless of length. Shorts of other materials were just ‘shorts’. Short-shorts were daisy dukes before there was a Daisy Duke. Athletic shorts were just slightly longer than the Daisy Dukes.

Bermuda shorts became popular among the preppy girls in my highschool (80-84). They were almost always khaki. They were tailored, “formal” shorts worn just slightly above the knee, like wiki says. Short-shorts were considered borderline trashy by the girls in my school.

[Tangent]

I grew up in the 70’s and wore plenty of cutoff denim shorts back then . I never once heard them referred to as bermudas.

[Annie-Xmas]

@devilsknew

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This thread and poll is wholly ingenuous and innaccurate and out of context. The question was what were “Daisy Dukes” known as before the Dykes of Hazard, <snip>

Best. Typo. Ever. (or is it a Freudian [del]Bermuda shorts[/del] slip?)

I think that 2 1/2 Men’s Charlie Harper is the poster model for Bermuda shorts.

[Acsenray]

You people are crazy. Bermudas are knee-length shorts that are made that way. They aren’t cutoffs.

[Freddy_the_Pig]

@Merneith

Bermuda shorts became popular among the preppy girls in my highschool (80-84). They were almost always khaki. They were tailored, “formal” shorts worn just slightly above the knee, like wiki says.

For the classic preppy Bermuda-shorts look from that era, see Sloane in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

[pulykamell]

@Annie-Xmas

Best. Typo. Ever. (or is it a Freudian Bermuda shorts slip?)

Huh. I assumed it was intentional.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

I generally think of the UK meaning - ie., mens’ board shorts.