A New Length for Men's Shorts
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304831304579546312161483266
THE VERY WORD "hemline" can summon visions of midcentury women's fashion and the Byzantine bylaws that simply had to be followed whenever imperious French designers raised and lowered skirt lengths. Those crazy dames, right?
Guys, you're in the same game. For most of the past two decades, men's shorts have barely merited the name, dropping so far down the calf that Linnaeus would have stuck them in the pants family. Call them what you want—knickerbockers, breeches, clam diggers—the one thing they haven't been is particularly short.
Finally that's changed. And given how change in the menswear world is measured—think millimeters per decade rather than centimeters per season for women's wear—shorts are shortening quickly. In the past few years, the low-water-mark length of a 15-inch-or-so inseam receded to knee-length (11 inches), then a knee-baring 9 inches, then to a quadriceps-exposing 7 inches and on to the newly fashionable thigh-flaunting 5 inches. If men's shorts were a glacier in Greenland, scientists would be freaking out.
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Finally. I would never buy shorts because they were so long. Just work cut offs. May have to finally buy some "store bought" ones.
Edited to add a note. Women's shorter skirts (mini skirts) was said to herald the liberal era. I look back on when mens shorts went almost to the ankles as when conservatives got power. Does this mean we are in a move to a more liberal era.
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I don't think I want most men's shorts getting that short again. 
If they do, we may have to watch for the resurgence of the porn 'stache. 
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Some of them were even my sister's 
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All look fine to me, but what do I know? 
Too short is not so flattering to most imo--whether male or female
He would never wear them in public, though. 
Sometimes... I can't help myself.
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These young men are at their prime. They spend hours at the gym, and then wear long, baggy culottes 
It's high time they actually showed a little leg
You practically read my mind!
The same thing with crew cut hair! Christ, why would someone in their 20s want to look like someone in their 50s? 
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For many reasons.
One thing I really disapprove of though is jean cut-offs, no shirt, cowboy hat, & cowboy boots at age 65 with a beer gut! Had a neighbor like that when I was a kid. 
I think that's about 1/2", isn't it?
Some years ago somebody told me my haircut was "old-fashioned." I still have it--and it's probably "in" again now.
Though if they get much shorter
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I may just be out of the game
Yeah... I dunno. Kind of think longer, like in the OP picture is best, if you have legs that hurt other people's eyes... and who says lengths for men don't change?
(yes, I know these are B-ball uniforms but they follow the same relative trend.)
Has to be a happy medium somehow.
and i would rather wear my baggyish below the knee shorts. i hate these short shorts. i notice aging hippies like the short ones as well, with socks yanked up the knees!
I'll thank the alerter for looking out for and defending against homophobia, that's very kind of them. But definitely not self loathing. I just don't take myself overly seriously. But again thanks for having our backs to them add as well, it's very kind. And i will say I'm flattered by the final comment. That made my day!
