And all I’m saying is that before they were known as Daisy Dukes a common vernacular was to call them “Bermudas”.
Do you have a cite for (what we now know as) “Daisy Bukes” being referred to as “Bermudas”? Because, like Diosa, I’ve always thought of Bermudas as being knee-length shorts.
Nope… but I assure you that was a common colloquial usage. I think the name referred more to the homemade nature of the Jean shorts rather than style or length. You never bought pre-made denim “bermuda shorts” as they come nowadays. It was unheard of… You always cut off an old pair of jeans.
For the sake of clarification, I’ve started a thread in IMHO about this bermuda issue. I will accept that perhaps this is a common colloquial usage, but I’ve never heard anyone use it that way.
Did I say that link? I meant the discussion is at this link, which has a poll and everything!
Neither have I. Bermuda shorts are a very particular thing, not just a general term for “cut-offs”.
Hip hugger short shorts.
They’re cut-offs.
No, they weren’t.
None of this is true.
I think you are all misspelling “Awesome”.
As a child of the 70’s, I can state that what were known as both short-shorts and hot pants began to be called Daisy Dukes when the show came out…but only if they were denim. Cut-offs were any pair of denim jeans you cut off to make shorts of any length. Bermudas were dressier shorts, knee-length, and usually worn by older men with socks and loafers. Generally plaid, never denim.
Hot pants were in fashion with that name in the late 60s- early 70s. They had finished hems and were quite dressy, often worn with knee high boots. I was thrilled to own a pair in my tween years. They were usually made of a brushed cotton twill. Spandex had not come to clothing yet at the time.
Daisy Dukes were known as cutoffs, but until Daisy Duke came along, cutoffs were cut straight across and did not show any ass-cheekage. Sometimes we rolled the hems to make 'em shorter but they still didn’t quite make Daisy Duke territory.
But that goes against the image of Bermuda… it is considered upscale and somewhat stuffy by island standards. It is anything but a poor island nation. Tropical yet dressy matches their image.
Now, if they were called Haitis that might make sense.
hot pants were basically dressy short shorts circa 1971 to 1974. I wore them often. So much in fact I was nick named Miss Hot Pants of 1974.My mother, who was a high school teacher said she thought they were more discreet than mini skirts and she was tired of seeing all of the girls’ underwear all of the time.
Cut offs could be any length of any cut off pants worn by either gender. Generally they were jeans cut off above knee at least and the hem left to unravel.
Daisy Dukes were any short tight shorts and not necessarily denim.
I haved never heard of short shorts or cut offs or hot pants called bermuda shorts. During my high school days no one wore knee length shorts except old guys on the golf course.
OK, so the general consensus seems to be that cutoff denim shorts were simply called cut-offs (with the occasional ‘Daisy Mae’ terminology) prior to 1979.
This is what the women characters in ‘Swamp Diamonds’ actually did to their prison jeans, cut them off at the thighs: Swamp Diamonds movie poster (note that in the movie Beverly’s (and the other escapees’) pants are blue denim, not green as in the poster) - Compare with Daisy Duke’s cut-offs. “Daisy Dukes were any short tight shorts and not necessarily denim”. Hmm, I guess the term Daisy Dukes has been repurposed over the years, as two entries in the ‘Urban dictionary’ mention denim, while one indicates just any short of very short shorts. Although even at the time I thought the term refered to denim cutoffs.
As for short shorts, hot pants, and whatever, as a kid/young teen in the 1970s I kind of lumped those as all fashion/disco/sports-fitness related. Alas, the girls my age I knew out in suburban Long Island normally wore pretty much the same style as us guys - jeans, sneakers, and t-shirts. (What can I say, I graduated High School before John Hughes dressed his male teen actors in slacks and sports coats, and female teen actors in the then-latest high fashions :smack:).
Sorry, just wanted to back up my stand on Bermuda’s image.
From Wiki:
Not quite what you would associate with “home made.”
Levi’s 501s, cut off below the pocket. When I was a kid I’d take a safety pin and fray the cut end. One just didn’t walk out in un-frayed cut-offs! 
Hey, different strokes, different folks, but growing up as a child of the seventies in my little corner of the world “Bermudas” were a common synonymn for “Shorts”, and more specifically, denim shorts cut off above the knee. It was common vernacular. Or as our Alabaman neighbor said… “cutoff dungarees”.
And “shorts” is probably shortened from the original terminology “Short Pants” or maybe it was derived from “Bermuda Shorts”? Which came first? Bermuda Shorts seems like a later term.
Not exactly sure what point you’re making here. Yes, “shorts” derives from “short pants” and dates back to 1826. “Bermuda shorts” dates back to 1953. I don’t think anybody would dispute “shorts” is a much earlier term.
Bermuda shorts were never made of denim and never cut offs. They are hemmed dress shorts.
From here: Bermuda shorts - Wikipedia
You must have grown up in a different '70’s than I did.