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A Short History of Short Shorts
Over at Gentleman’s Journal HQ (which, as we speak, happens to be a hotel pontoon moored unconvincingly in an Umbrian lake) we’re long on short shorts. And the long and short of it is this: there is no garment with quite as debonair a history as the old thigh-revealer. Don’t believe me? Pull up a deck chair, grab a Gauloise jaune and help yourself to a Cinzano — we’ve got a history lesson to get through.
If they were good enough for Bond…
Who Wore Short Shorts? In The 1970s, Men Wore Short Shorts
Culture | June 14, 2018
Have you ever noticed how revealing men's shorts were in the 1970s? Those shorts were short. The 1970s was a time of liberation, of "anything goes," and people were putting their bodies out there and feeling proud of them. The Woodstock era had taught us to be free, to question authority in general -- and in particular, to question traditional stuffy attire. If you've got it, flaunt it was...
He wears short shorts: why are men showing more leg?
The subversive, suggestive and skimpy garment has made a comeback during lockdown thanks to Paul Mescal and Harry Styles
Men’s short shorts, an item of clothing forever caught in the crosshairs of a sartorial culture war between subversive and suggestive and retroactively rugged (think Wham! in the Wake Me Up Before You Go Go video vs Bjorn Bjorg), are enjoying a renaissance.
Normal People’s Paul Mescal had a notable lockdown fashion moment carrying a bag of prawn cocktail...
The Not So Brief History of Shorts
To understand shorts or any fashion style in the present, we have to start by looking at various unique moments in history that likely influenced society’s priorities and how the culmination of those values and situations led to and organically shaped what we now consider as acceptable in present day thinking about men’s shorts.
England prospered during the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547). A rise of consumerism created a new bourgeois (middle) class that became more influential and started to separate itself from the impoverished gentry. This made it increasingly difficult to tell the wealthy merchants...
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