Yes out side the beach or swimming pool guys wearing speedos, short shorts or leggings just don’t look good in today’s world.
Yes even in Hawaii being probably most casual place where everyone is walking around in shorts, tank tops and flip flops. It too old school for even Hawaii.
Yet even the Speedo isn’t as gay-looking as the Mankini.
I’d rather see a naked trump… than a short short Trump. Or a Trump shortchanging us, the American People.
But I am considering buying a new decoration for the house … or a new target to shoot :
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I Think I dropped a period … or something… when quoting But… no one cares how gays or super manly guys look in shorts… it’s just no one wants to see scrotum nor actually cock.
Ellipses don’t burn eyes but trolls or bigots can blind one.
I (as a teen, hot 20 something when Ogg said “okk”) would have rather felt a teeny than seen a monster belonging to a bigot, a racist or a (insert a Criminal Minds Star Of the day type of person). Imagination is everything.
I dare you tell MMA guys or even “fake” (let alone high school or college) wrestling guys (or swimming or any other sport where loose fitting clothes would chafe) that tights are feminine.
Run those two post by Google translator or Bing translator it is scrambled in the translation. I don’t have clue what it is you are trying to communicate into English.
I have no idea what web site you are using as a translator but it is not translating probably.
Diego Maradona
Lionel Messi
One guy looks like an athlete. The other like he wore his wife’s shorts by mistake.
One guy looks like an athlete. The other guy looks like his long pants shrank a bit in the wash. Or he’s wearing his wife’s culottes. 
Either way, long shorts are dorky. It’s a damn shame that actually short shorts have been redefined as gay. Whoever did that is the “they” I’d like to shoot.
1980 did, when it left the building, it took the male hotpants with it
For the blue collar guys who wear them, dress code. Shorts for men and women, as well as skirts in most warehouses and light industry usually have to be no shorter than 2" above the knee.
Very few people are all that fashion conscious. They will wear whatever feels appropriate for their situation. Sure there are some workplace rules, social conventions, and there are limits on what’s available at your local stores, but generally people wear whatever they want, even if it is the same thing they’ve always worn.
I still see 70 year old men who dress as they did in the 50s. It only seems “wrong” because it stands out in the crowd. Really it doesn’t matter.
Here in Australia, a hot country, not only are shorts common, there’s a popular brand that just won’t die.
Anyone who uses the phrase “since I was in short pants” is going to prefer slacks. As do men in conservative countries, even if the weather merits shorts. I’m about comfort, but formal shorts aren’t really a thing.
I dunno, there is a very short (!) range of temperature where shorts are comfortable, without being too cold or too hot.
If it is ninety degrees out, how is being too hot the fault of the shorts? I understand the too cold part.
Closer to 1983 or 84. I was in high school in the 70s, college in the early 80s. Being seen even once in knee-knockers (what we called knee length “shorts”) was the kiss of death socially. I refuse to wear shorts now because proper shorts are out of style, and like LSLGuy, I think knee length pants look dorky as all get out.
Do you mean the kind of full-length workout pants they used to call “muscle pants”, or the more modern synthetics like Cool Max?
I used to have a pair of workout shorts like that, and I will own that in spite of their hitting at the knee, the material was so thin (yet completely opaque), and it wicked so well that they were truly comfortable. But they would have been even more comfortable had they been shorter.
This still begs the question of why and how the male thigh became an object of visual revulsion in public. Why is it that men got a pass for a couple of decades, and then no more? Our legs aren’t any hairier now than they were in the 1970s. The only two explanatory factors I can think of–and I think they work in tandem–is that following the general sense of liberation wrought by the 1960s, we temporarily got that “pass” because it was understood there were places and situations where how we looked to others was no longer the paramount consideration. But that pass was only temporary.
Today, though, how we look to others does seem to have become paramount in all public situations, and at all times. I’m not saying this is absolutely true, but it does seem to be the “official” cultural line. If you’re a Hollywood screenwriter creating any male character any age between four and one hundred four years, you’re not going to put him in short shorts unless you want the audience to make certain assumptions about him–or else if your story is set in the 1970s.
The second factor was men’s trousers going generally baggy beginning around the year 1990 or 1991. You can’t have short shorts that are baggy, or you risk the problem mentioned upthread by mistymage. A lot of workout shorts and trunks today have the crotch as low, or lower, then where the hems would have been in the 1970s or 80s, and in the case of trunks I’m not necessarily referring to speedos. Just what were once considered ordinary trunks for males, much like the Op shorts in cut. I think the bagginess became so entrenched because it came to be expected that even the slightest hint of male anatomy must be eliminated, no matter how the wearer moves or sits. In the era of snugger, but not necessarily super tight, fits you couldn’t avoid noticing that trousers fit men and women differently, particularly when seated.
Could you take them to a tailor and have them re-hemmed a little shorter, or would it interfere with the pockets?
Voting best answer for humor value.
I seem to remember a summer (short period of time, anyway, but summer would make sense) where the style was to wear very flimsy nylon shorts without underwear/jocks. This wasn’t just to the gym, but out in public to malls, etc.
Does anyone else remember something like this, and, could that have been the end of short shorts for men?
I always believed that it was Magic Johnson who started the trend to knee length (non)shorts, but maybe it was this thing I, maybe, just remembered.
Bob
Well we now know what fighter pilots wear under their G-Suits:D
Here is a pictures ofkit evolution for Manchester United Football Club (“soccer”)
Interesting. Starts off with knickerbockers; goes from long shorts, to medium mid to low thigh length shorts and stays that for ages. Then in the 1970’s basically become very very short, until lengthening again in the 1990’s to almost the knee.
So maybe “they” decided in the 1970’s to wear ridiculously short shorts?
