Why Has the trend change so much, shorts are to long and baggie these days. Women can wear short cotton shorts in public but men are afraid to wear short shorts. Why?
Short shorts are very European - the long shorts are very North American!
I still prefer short shorts and can't abide the long ones! Besides shorty shorts are more revealing. North America is still very conservative! Let me not statrt on the whole Speedo debate in NA!
Baggy shorts are also a uk thing, not too sure if the rest of europe is the same....It does seem that the uk and the us have very similar fashon trends.
I think baggy shorts feel better to wear, and are less restricting. The summer here jumps out at us in the space of a week, so we dont expect the heat, baggy shorts are a blessing.
being from an older generation, I miss Speedos and shorter shorts, as well as properly fitting T-shirts and Polo shirts (don't like longish "tennis tales")Fashions change over time. It just happens.
very enlightening. i always hate dating myself, but i grew up in the 60's and 70's. i'm almost embarrased at some of the tight jeans i wore during that period. and were they uncomfortable. oh yea. my son, during the 90's wanted to wear oversized articles of clothing. i told him he looked like a gangster. i bought my first pair of loose shorts after that period and was amazed at how comfortable they were. so what if i had to pull them up every ten minutes or so. i didn't take them off at the end of the day and have ridges on my body from the tight underwear and jeans. my scrotum and penis were not fixed into one position during the whole day. i did miss seeing a bulge in a pair of jeans, but seeing about three inches of boxers did something for me. really think it was a response to the horrible molestation thing that was going on in the 80's and 90's. they were hiding their male shapes behind baggy clothing. no defined asses or bulges. you had to imagine what was behind the clothing. i work at day wearing business clothing, but when i go home i put on a pair of baggy shorts. end of the day i sorta suck it in and then just fall off of me. and that is the way it is...
I just read the entire article. Each of us are free to dress as we like. I never went for the ridiculously baggy look. My jeans and pants always fit nicely without being tight. Same with shorts and gym shorts. If they are too long when I buy them, I have them hemmed at the tailor across the street. The clown suit look of excessively baggy pants and shorts will fade away - actually, it already has. There are too many guys into working out that won't go for buying pants and shorts 3 - 4 sizes too big. It's been happening for years here in San Diego. It seems now that the mainstream and the more affluent guys wear clothing that fits their bodies well. It's the lower income segments of society that are still hanging on to the 4-sizes-too-big, baggy, crotch below the knees look.