Nov 29 2008
No More Short Shorts!
No More Short Shorts!
I look forward to the end of summer when I no longer stand out as the only guy wearing long pants at a picnic. Shorts are like swim trunks to me; something to be worn at the beach.
Why do Men wear “Shorts” anyway? This is a girly thing. Oh, it’s okay for little boys, but once you grow up, PUT ON A PAIR OF PANTS! What is so cool about wearing shorts, anyway?
Cool? Do shorts really make anyone cool to look at? Men, that is. I think they look really dorky, and no look in recent memory has been “dorkier” than the long baggy things men and teenage boys are wearing these days.
I swear the funniest thing I EVER saw, shorts-wise, was a 250 pound, WAAYYY overweight 70-year-old City Councilman with a big belly and butt, and the “skinniest” little sticks for legs, just sticking out the bottom of the biggest, longest pair of baggy short’s you could imagine.
Well, if I weren’t against shorts for men before, THAT sight would have convinced me that no way would I ever embarrass myself by appearing in public like that.
Perhaps (and that’s a big maybe) the only dorkier thing than the long baggy look is the short-short. Even the shorts developed for athletes who ride bicycles for a living can look really dorky if they are the wrong color. Witness the “oh-oh” selection of red biking shorts.
For the totally yuck!!!!! factor,add the men (usually overweight)who have half their backside showing. And the young ones who wear them almost falling off their hips.I’m getting warmed up here to this topic,so add the bimbos who have their G-strings on display.
Thank you for blogging this topic. Men make fashion faux pas, too, and those athletic shorts are a nice example. All day we hear about women wearing this or that or looking too fat or too thin! You’re right on about the shorts, my friend.