Truly we have much to learn from her.
Huh, and here I thought Arabia was mostly desert, rather than rain forest.
I’d agree with your first statement, but that may just be because I’m a straight man and would rather look at female skin than at male skin. However, it may or may not have any relation to the fact that, in reasonably formal contexts, a man who is “dressed up” will never be showing any leg at all, but a woman very well might.
Conversely, I have long legs, and I worry that “regular” men’s shorts look too short on me.
By the way, this is a topic that has been discussed before: Why deny the thigh?
I haven’t stopped laughing since I clicked that link.
And did I mention that I want to hack their database and get the names and contact info of everyone who’s bought a pair of those? Because there’s gotta be some way I can take advantage of a group of overly affluent suckers like that in a way that would fund my early retirement.
I’ve got an even easier one: it’s called ‘scissors.’
When a pair of jeans starts getting old, take scissors, turn 'em into cutoffs.
I like mine just halfway to the knee, so that’s how I cut them.
I also miss swim trunks that don’t hang down to your knees. The last thing I want when I’m swimming is a few square feet of extra fabric, slowing me down in the water. And the last thing I want when I get out of the water is staying wet from waist to knees for about the next forever.
If I’d known the short swim trunks from 20 years ago were going to be impossible to find when I got older, I’d have bought a few extra pairs back then.
They are now very much in style and can be found all over the place. J Crew, Bonobos, Banana Republic, Original Penguin, etc. all carry swim trunks with 7" and 5" inseams.
(Not to bring you down, but shorter shorts for men were more popular in the early 80s than they were in the 90s. Don’t hurt me.)
Cooler or not (which I don’t think they are), I still think shorts look silly. Pajamas are undeniably more comfortable than real clothes, but many people think they look silly for everyday wear. If that makes me a pinko or white knight or whatever, so be it. Shorts look like clothes for British schoolboys, preteen girls and people playing sports.
Yes, and long sleeve shirts make people look like pompous office drones. Don’t even get me started on collars.
Y’know, even in the 70s, I felt the short shorts were for the playing court/field or for the beach. And that even extended to hotpants/DaisyDukes for the ladies – I liked looking at the scenery but still, the look just gave a “you won’t be taken seriously just going around daily business in these” feeling to my still-evolving teenaged mind. Add to that how growing up in a very hot climate, with vinyl seats in the car, may have created a bit of adverse conditioning to the notion of planting my bare skin on the seating surface.
But more seriously and more towards recent times, I prefer to be able to continue to pocket my wallet, handkerchief, keys, pocketknife, pen, gum, and [in the last 16 years] mobile phone. This means I like a garment a little more generously tailored to have the pocket capacity of a regular pair of trousers.
However the billowing past-the-knee style in current vogue are a major overcorrection IMO.
Good merciful Heaven…
Cause then you look like the frat-boy douchebags who all wear the same J. Crew outfits to the local douchebag bar.
Because $5 Bangladesh items set the fashion ? They were making them for Europe … so next thing is the english speaking world got the euro style.
It is practical anyway… you can sit on public seating without feeling dirty, you get less infected hair follicles, you hide the folliculitis and your spider arteries (commonly occurring at the injured knee muscle -vastus medalis - area )… etc
I live in Atlanta (well, Decatur to be specific) and I haven’t wore shorts outside of swimming in years. They just look too ridiculous for me. Though I do tend to wear flip flops with my ubiquitous jeans.
Jordan only dropped the line 2-3 inches. That’s like mid-thigh. It was the Fab 5, that did the knee length (and more) shorts.
I had a hard time finding longer running shorts recently for some reason. Despite being close to 50 I do have the legs to wear shorter shorts, but I didn’t want to worry about hanging out (apparently that happens to guys as they get older, according to some on SDMB.
With only longer shorts available, perhaps it’s time to go back to what we did in junior high in the 70’s - make old jeans into cut-off shorts.
On second thought, a quick search of Google images makes me think that’s not a good idea nowadays (at least for men). Or can we start a new trend?
I live in Atlanta, and I don’t know a single person who doesn’t ever wear shorts. I’m sure there are a few people like you out there, but your attitude about shorts is about as ridiculous as disliking shoes with laces.
Lots of times I’ll see someone walking down the street in a dress. Being a dress-wearing female who’s interested in fashion, I take a closer look…and it usually turns out to be a guy in basketball shorts.
Maybe there are a lot more closeted cross-dressers than we know about and that’s what drives the market. 
I’m a bit behind the times - I didn’t even know there were stores called Original Penguin or Bonobos. But then, it’s been awhile since I’ve found a good reason to shop at a shopping mall.
And back in the day, men’s swim trunks often didn’t have inseams, period. I’d like a pair like that for actual swimming.
I live in DC and haven’t owned a pair of shorts in maybe a decade. They can’t be worn to work and are only good for one season, so basically they are only useful for summer weekends. And my summer weekends are reserved for cute sundresses, which are cooler, more attractive, and much more versatile (put on tights and a cardi and you are ready for fall, put on a blazer and heels and it’s time for work.)
It may have been this forum or another one I was reading, but just a month ago there was a question about how Europeans recognized Americans when they were visiting. One person said in his country (Denmark, maybe?) the American’s had shorts that stopped above the knees while it was more common that they go below the knees in his country.
Making this is just another fashion making its way to The States from Europe.