Yea or Nay: Cuffed Shorts

The question of the day is on the topic of shorts. As many bitter kittens know, we are longtime proponents of seeing the return of men’s thighs to the sunlight that has been denied them so long. Perhaps, like some, you suspect our championing of this cause to be the result of our desire to, well, look at men’s thighs. Darlings, you couldn’t be more wrong if you tried. While it’s true that, like any pink-blooded American male, the sight of a well-formed guy-thigh is perfectly welcome in our day-to-day activities, the real reason for our support has to do with choices.

You see, poodles, we’re at the (hopefully) tail end of a generation-long period that was all about limiting men’s choices in clothing. Not coincidentally, this period was a form of backlash against the previous generation’s predilection for all kinds of style experimentation and boundary-pushing. That, more than anything is what motivates us. Our desire to kill off the cargo-short, t-shirt, khakis, jeans, polo shirt, striped buttondown uniform that constitutes the entirety of men’s day-to-day clothing choices.

We don’t think EVERY man should wear shorts this short, just like we don’t think every woman should wear a micro-mini. But for those of our brothers whose legs are their best body part – and in our opinion that’s true of a clear majority of men – we will always happily salute any designer who puts thigh-baring back on the table. The latest attempt appears to be the cuffed short, which is a classic that should never have gone out of style in the first place. To hell with the ubiquitous cargo short and the already-getting-tired Bermuda short. We say YEA to all of these.

[Photo Credit: style.com]

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