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who's wearing them ?
who plans to ?
which brand ?
what kind ?

there are these ones that say 'd + g beachwear' that i've seen
and like, but could you honestly wear them *not* at the beach ?

a source of much pleasure when walking around the country =
the sight of us british in shorts.
beige shorts that have pockets in, well they always crack me up.
especially when they are laoded down with car keys, wallet,
filofax or equivalent etc and have buttons on. dead funny.

shorts then.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i was thinking of buying a pair of those 'long shorts' that go down/up to your shins...but this is a VERY BAD IDEA

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

who's wearing them ?

When am I not wearing them? In the summer months at least.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't wear shorts.
Maybe around the house, maybe. But the world doesn't need to see my legs.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't wear shorts in public. Not a stylish look. I'll rock the capris and cropped pants however.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I wear black shorts alot on soccer pitches and in the house. But due to my lovely knee high sock tan line I don't wear them in public alot.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I never wear shorts. Men in shorts look silly. I think it has to do with the hair.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I found some olive twill shorts from Old Navy that didn't have 34 pockets or tie-strings or bungee cords dangling from them, so I bought them. I'd rather have Momus' though. (shorts that is AHEM)

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus, I find your hair more alarming than your outfit in that picture. What is going on there?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

He's being Dumbledore to that kid's Harry Potter. Er.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

What is that, like the Dogme version?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I was traumatized at an early age by Robert Sean Leonard's knobby legs poking out of his shorts in Swing Kids. Truly horrific. Therefore, shorts are the spawn of Satan!

― fiona (fiona), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Shorts in general are dud. Wear light linen trousers.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I wear shorts a lot in summertime, especially cuz trousers + my bike = MANY PAINFUL ACCIDENTS. I do wear those below-the-knee shorts kinda often too.

Sub-topic: Cut-offs...C/D? (I'm guessing most of y'all'll say dud, but psh whatevah I say classic!)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

men in shorts need to be killed...i'm sorry but this is a jihad i will not back down on, infidels

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

how do you feel about sarongs, dhotis and the like?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

And anyway, what the hell else are we supposed to wear when we go swimming?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

swimming != walking around downtown blinding me with pale white hairy thighs!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll only wear shorts indoors. Jess is pretty much OTM.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

swimming, you don't need shorts for that, nor anything else for that matter, (they will throw you from the public swimming baths if you adopt this plan)

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

america! pheel the phear! uber-short shorts on men are the fad in nyc!!!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

what like hot pants?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

:-O

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

YANC3Y STFU YOU ARE SUCH A LIAR.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i ain't lying! i've seen no less than five boyz sporting this look in the past week (when it ain't been raining) around soho. and at least two of them had grrlfriends!!!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew this whole 80s thing would get around to magnum p.i. eventually.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

why you let flea post up on you like that yanc3y?

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Sheeeit. I broke Flea's ankles five times that day!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

those shorts are simply used to smuggle plums.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

stinkyninja.com?

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Ralph Maccio is an ageless wonder!

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Who's the guy in the picture with Momus?

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Please tell me Aaron didn't crosspostingly answer that question.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

jealous?

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 3 June 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

it's steve albini!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Fi: that's only cos you think pants in general are tools of evil!

i wear them sometimes. my only particular preferences are that a) they look okay on me, and b) they aren't white. that's all. sometimes they are necessary and even good.

that being said, this is the best i'll ever look in shorts:

http://kerfuffle.org/images/cute4.jpg

― janni (janni), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

awwww!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

SHORTS ARE FOR SUCKAS.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate shorts. I wear long black slacks, shoes, and socks even when I am at the beach (which, admittedly, is fairly rare -- I was there this weekend and have a slim chance of going again this summer...).

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate shorts. I hate shorts. I hate shorts. I hate shorts. Except for my really slutty sweatshorts from Lucky Jeans that make me look like a Sporty Spice-inspired prostitute. Those are great. Otherwise I have to be pretty damned hot to put on shorts--even in Arizona, I wore jeans.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure I have any shorts and have no intention of buying any, which unfortunately deprives you of seeing my legs. Unless you ask nicely. I expect you'll cope.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

shorts are ok on girls

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't worn them in public since I was about 17. Well, unless I stop at the store after running/basketball/etc. They make me feel like a little kid and I have enough things to make me feel that way already.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

They're just evil, evil I tell you.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Wearing anything other than shorts when mowing the lawn/doing yard-work = just plain wrong.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

this is true

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

men who wear shorts in public (noted exceptions) need to be killed, but men who wear cutoffs need to be killed slooowly.

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

There's nothing wrong with mowing your neighbor's lawn in your wife's best Sunday dress.

― chester (synkro), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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do people who hate shorts hate their bodies?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 February 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

no, they just think grown men in short pants look silly and Python-esque.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 12 February 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i love my body, which is why I hate shorts. Unless you're wearing pinup shorty shorts with heels/wedges and a halter top, they make you look very unattractive.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 12 February 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

shorts are good, but not with socks.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 12 February 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys are kooky and puritanical... AND THAT'S A GOOD THING!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 February 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be wearing shorts as much as possible again this summer. I love 'em.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 12 February 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

What Sam said. I like to wear shorts are just not flattering.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh.... that should be

I like to wear clothes I look good in, and shorts are just not flattering.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

And skorts!!! Those are million times grosser.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

haha skorts

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

add a bad perm and you have my sister, every summer, 6-12.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I really wish I had a picture of the wig caddy. We kept a pair of little shorts that belonged to my friend Pat nailed to the wall of this crazy house I lived in and it served as a holder for the wig I wore while doing housework. Looked funny with the curly locks overflowing out of the shorts.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

What are skorts?!

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

miniskirts with shorts sewn inside

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

more or less

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

hopefully less

― sorrry (Oops), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

They look like skirts in the front and shorts in the back YUCK YUCK YUCK

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Well that's no fun.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

wait a minute, back the fuck up everybody

WHY WAS BRYAN WEARING A WIG WHILE DOING HOUSEWORK??

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 14 February 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry spencer:

http://party.islife.org/div/worstalbumcovers/tino[1].jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 14 February 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

???

http://party.islife.org/div/worstalbumcovers/tino[1].jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 14 February 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

copy/paste

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 14 February 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I wear short short I mean short shorts all the time, I have nice legs for a man and women tell me they love seeing them. I cut off jeans and make them a 2 inch inseam. I buy womens shorts to wear cause they are very short 1-3" inseams. I love em and I am not even gay. Just love shorts!!!!! I wish thats all there was to wear for everyone.

― Speeds Man (Speeds Man), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

You're a real happy camper, aren't you?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

shorts, boxers v briefs, speedos, sexy clothes...

Dude, we get it ok stop going on about your pervy dick-exposing shorts obsession! Man.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

the lady doth protest too much, methinks

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

um, ;-)
sorry!

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

The whole idea about shorts as something sinful and incorrect is coming from the fear to be taken as gay, because shorts are so revealing! And to mark a heterosexual point, people started dress in an opposite way.
If skimpy-and-sexy was now improperly homo, then what was properly hetero? How should this new culture of Hetero Separatism and Hetero Correctness express itself?

This conundrum had never existed before. In the days before Gay Identity Politics, there had been a naïve disregard for sexual orientation, a simplistic credo that maleness always meant heteroness. Sure, queers existed, but somewhere else, maybe in Greenwich Village or some offbeat locale like San Francisco. They were invisible; they were irrelevant. However males chose to look or behave or dress was, ipso facto, properly and appropriately heterosexual because, after all, what else could it be? Nothing can "look gay" when there's no gay way to look, no gay identity, no gay anything. Boys in Speedos? Hetero. Boys in short-shorts? Hetero. Only when gays asserted themselves to become a conspicuous and distinctive subpopulation, a distinctive demographic Other to the hetero Us, did a way of looking gay and dressing gay emerge.

Sports, due to Michael Jordan's early influence, were first to convert and transmogrify, basketball especially susceptible to this grotesque imperative of the thuggish, of the buffoonish. All other sports quickly and slavishly followed, an identical evolution from short to long, from tight to baggy. Soccer shorts and gym shorts, track shorts and tennis shorts and boxing trunks-all underwent this same transformation. Wrestling singlets also were lengthened to eliminate the inappropriate display of bare thighs.

We have the Christian Right, Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority, Phyllis Schlafly and her Eagle Forum and other demagogues to thank for this development.

― Jonathan Levi, Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

My shorts came out two weeks ago. I love wearing shorts. Does this mean I'm gay?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

no, that would be your love of the cock

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn straight.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

He, he. I liked that! I think this whole thing is an American proble. In Europe we don´t have this kind of problem, even if it is hard to see boys and girls in shorts that doesn´t go down to the feet. I will call it the Taliban fashion. What do you think?

Note: My shorts came out today it´s warm andnice, and it will be a hot summer in Stockholm, Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe.

― Jonathan Levi, Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

it's nothing to do with homophobia you silly billy

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

not in my case anyway. i just don't like my legs and figure most others wouldn't either.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone on ILX exercise?

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Football twice a week plus lots of walking. I'm still a stocky fucker wit a belly, though.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 May 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

the only good thing about the place i'm moving to is that i'll get free access to the complex's health club, which i plan to really make use of. this is a big deal because the last gym i belonged to was $63 a month and it's hella more expensive now.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 2 May 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone on ILX exercise?

I do a lot of walking -- and therefore I have no problem with my legs at all. Hurrah shorts!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i go to the gym 3-4x a week, i walk a LOT, and my apartment is five steep flights up so i count that as exercise as well.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 2 May 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

well i mean, to keep the thread relevant at least, all of the folx on this thread who are so against shorts, i just don't understand it.

"hmm, 5 mile jog today and it's 75 out, how about an ankle length burqua...?"

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 2 May 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

if i jogged outdoors in shorts i might be arrested

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 2 May 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i did wear them to the gym, when i went

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 2 May 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i wear old navy cotton yoga pants at the gym. no shorts for me.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 2 May 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I just walked about six miles over two and a bit hours, listening to Orbital all the way. I was not wearing shorts.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 May 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't exercise (besides the half hour walk to get the mail) because I don't like the clothes you have to wear to do it. Shorts or sweats? Sports bras? Yuck.

Although those Old Navy yoga pants are okay.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 2 May 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i do get the impression that ILX neglects the body.

xpost i hope you're joking

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 2 May 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I was not wearing shorts.

...or anything else?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 May 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Southall after listening to the Blue Album:

http://clampettstudio.com/images/opc/sept2003/04-85930-Porky.jpg

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Sunday, 2 May 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Latest pic of Syd Barret

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~moz/pictures/poolsmil.png

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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