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Shorts, shorties!

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15:09 / 21.04.04

so...
its almost summer, and i am wondering if i can start to leave the house in shorts.
i do live in glasgow, and that may make me a candidate for 'who wants to be a hypothermic', but i love my shorts. i dig the freedom, i dig the look, amnd most of al, i like to show a little leg.

who's already wearing them?

i'll bet some of you are never out of them, you lucky californian-australian-african-mexican-pacific-rimmers!

is it shorts all round in the capital?
london, i mean?
are any of you wearing them right now?
with pants? or, like arnie, do you go commando?

do any of you wear business shorts? with the long socks?
do you find it helps the air circulate during those important meetings with your boss?

what about length?
do you all wear shorts in a surfer style? just around the knee? someone here must wear hotpnats, and i'm sure there are a couple eof running short fans hereabouts. and what about those cheap trousers they call 3/4 length? are they even really shorts?

tell me, oh barbelith, when is it right to wear shorts, and what shorts should we all be wearing?

ps
i am naked while i type this.

pps
except for my shorts.

15:22 / 21.04.04

I am against men wearing shorts. I think they look terrible. If you wear socks, you look like a douche, and if you bare your ankles you look like a hobo. Even men with attractive legs, like myself, should keep them under wraps. You want to keep something back for your sweethearts, after all. Most men have pasty, lumpy legs with hair like a pig's back. Why would you show that off? Especially when linen trousers are so flattering.

The only exceptions are professional athletes, while professing of course, and drag queens.

15:24 / 21.04.04

Yup. I dont like them.

15:34 / 21.04.04

FASCISTS!

i have very sexually appealing legs, and i am currently single. when single, i like to think of every woman as my girlfriend, and every man as my boyfriend. you wouldnt hide your legs from your partner, would you? i share my tanned and muscular limbs, as it would be unfair of me to hide them.

who am i to deny them what they need?

15:37 / 21.04.04

It is true that shorts generally do no-one any favours, especially most british men; who, in general, reveal pasty legs that have not seen sunlight for the past six months when they wear shorts.
However I have to admit that I like them purely for comfort reasons, and in the summer get most annoyed when the evilness of work means I have to wear trousers.
I myself favour slightly longer shorts, generally around the knee, though I avoid the very long nu-metal style shorts and the 3/4 length trouser. Both of which I hate with a passion for no real reason.

15:39 / 21.04.04

Don't shout at me! This is just one man's opinion. I can just see you standing around in the park with your greasy shins, playing hacky sack. I bet you even wear white socks with your burkenstocks.

You know what knee-length shorts say, toksik? They say, "I have a woman's thighs."

15:40 / 21.04.04

I've already noticed a number of people in Glasgow wearing shorts, and can only assume that hypothermia is so hot right now (figuratively speaking). So it might be okay in that regard...

15:48 / 21.04.04

i only wear shorts to bed. that's it. and, maybe, to the beach, over a bathing suit. that's it. in the summer to beat the heat i rock sandals, capris, skirts, and tanks. i haven't worn shorts, except w/the aforementioned exceptions, since 1992.
colin i have to say i agree with you, tho' i never *quite* thought of the "pig's back" analogy. thank god, 25 years of peace...from here on out, it's all mental unrest. thanks a lot!

15:51 / 21.04.04

Q is on the money. Shorts should only be worn at the gym, or MAYBE at the beach. At the beach, however, you're better off rolling up your Khakis to get that Martha's Vineyard/Kennedy thing going.

15:53 / 21.04.04

Well, I only ever go to the nude beach out at Far Rockaway, so...

15:56 / 21.04.04

You know what knee-length shorts say, toksik? They say, "I have a woman's thighs."

so full length trousers say "i have woman's thighs, calves, and ankles"? wait, do running shorts say i have a woman's nuts?

that would be wierd.

15:58 / 21.04.04

dude, life is a gym!
and a beach!
ad a vineyard!

16:00 / 21.04.04

Shorts shouldn't be worn by men or women outside of the gym and California. It's unsettling. Head, clothing, clothing, and then all this LEG sticking out the bottom. You look like you're going to fall over, or snap off below the shorts. Pants are needed to provide an impression of stability.

16:01 / 21.04.04

Ah ha ha! My army is against you, toksik! We will hold you down and measure you for a burka!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:04 / 21.04.04

As a rule, I don't wear shorts... though I do have a pair of combats that used to be cut off at the knee, but are now so fucked that Christ knows what they are. Apparently they make me look like Robinson Crusoe. In para boots.

16:07 / 21.04.04

can i get a tartan burka? with bondage straps?

16:07 / 21.04.04

Yes.

16:11 / 21.04.04

No. That would be sick. Go on now, mommy is waiting back at the cave. Thats right the cave.. shorts wearing psycho..

16:22 / 21.04.04

Ease up, Major! He's finished, no need to kick him again. We'll take him before the World Court.

16:33 / 21.04.04

goddamn coalition of the killing...
you're all just jealous of my high melatonin levels.

16:57 / 21.04.04

I would say yes to the shorts wearing.

On you not me

I hate wearing shorts.

Except that Glasgow is all cold, and your legs will probably fall off or something.

Londoners are not wearing shorts as of yet, thank god. There's something about all the grime that gets smeared all over any exposed skin. Uk.

16:58 / 21.04.04

There's a picture in the Gardening thread that shows where I stand on the issue.

I do, however, live in the sub-tropics.

17:00 / 21.04.04

I wear shorts. The minute it looks like the sun's out for more than an hour I'm all up on the shorts thing. Of course, that means I get to have surreal, 'Twilight Zone'-esque experiences...like being the only person in the enormous Tesco in shorts.

Goodness Gracious Meme

17:08 / 21.04.04

Apparently they make me look like Robinson Crusoe. In para boots.

aaaaawwww. that sounds *so* cute.

The fabled point where 'long shorts' slide into '3/4 length trousers/capris': YES!

lovely, v.flattering to most leg shapes. and i like to see a nicely-turned out ankle on my daily lech/er walk.

Short shorts, hmmm. not so keen. on men, danger of bollock-popping incidents. urgh. :/

on women, better, but still.

(although i have a pic of me in hotpants and i look HOTT. that is because it's from about 7 years ago when i had the figure of a sexy angel)

17:15 / 21.04.04

did you stop being sexy, or stop being an angel?

18:13 / 21.04.04

Pants are needed to provide an impression of stability.
ibis!!! what about miniskirts w/no tights? you don't like those? i'll kick yr ass, WHILE WEARING MY MINISKIRT!! yeah.

19:13 / 21.04.04

In my part of the world you have to wear shorts simply to survive in the 100-plus-degree-Farenheit summers. Everyone wears them. Men. Women. Old people. Obese people. Babies. Dogs.

Absolute worst combination on men: shorts and cowboy boots. Eurgh. It works on some women though...

19:15 / 21.04.04

no!
it cant surely?
cowboy boots and short skirts also look dumb.
hell, cowboy boots and any skirt looks silly.

yes, even on models.

19:27 / 21.04.04

People from the American southwest should wear cowboy boots. The rest of us look like ridiculous posers in them.

I should become a style maven. I was going to become a cat burglar, though. Toksik, which should I do?

19:28 / 21.04.04

Only people from the American southwest, that is.

I'd better not get involved in any editorial work!

19:29 / 21.04.04

Miniskirts only work if you're topless and wearing big shoes.

19:52 / 21.04.04

dude, cat burglar and style maven go together like 'nice' and 'smooth'.

do both.

just hold back on the silk. while good for skulking in the dark, it gets really heavy from sweat. you'll do a lot of sweating hanging by one arm from the occasional ledge or scaling buildings on a length of twine.

20:02 / 21.04.04

I'm in Texas... does that count? I've always looked horrid in cowboy boots, though. I don't think they should be worn by anyone who doesn't actually work with livestock.

Tight, short, cut-off jean shorts (also known as "Daisy Dukes" in some parts of the world) look good with some cowboy boots, on some women. It's a narrow segment of the population, to be sure.

Miniskirts are wonderful things - they're comfortable, and they make one oh so much more popular...

20:06 / 21.04.04

Sekhmet, being from Texas counts big time. Don't let these pasty Brits tell you what to do.

20:27 / 21.04.04

dude, i'm swarthy! swaaaaaaaaaar-thy!

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