Anyway, my classic men-in-shorts topic was about men looking like children. It all started back in 2006. It all started with something Tom Wolfe wrote in "I Am Charlotte Simmons" [commission earned]. "I was amused," I blogged, "to run across this description of a man wearing shorts":
All that elegance was what made the personage of Dr. Lewin seem so curious. Last week, when the class first met, he had worn a plaid cotton shirt and pants -- nothing remarkable about that. The shirt had had long sleeves, and the pants had been long pants. But this morning he had on a short-sleeved shirt that showed too much of his skinny, hairy arms, and denim shorts that showed too much of his gnarly, hairy legs. He looked for all the world like a seven-year-old who at the touch of a wand had become old, tall, bald on top, and hairy everywhere else, an ossified seven-year-old, a pair of eyeglasses with lenses thick as ice pushed up to the summit of his forehead -- unaccountably addressing thirty college students, at Dupont, no less.
That's my motivation. Trying to encourage you to eschew the look of an ossified 7-year-old.
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While we're on the subject, spare a thought for any man over the age of 17 who wears a ball cap backwards.
As much as I adore you, Althouse, I am still wearing 6” shorts every day between May and October.
I do have nicer 7” shorts when I want to be dressier.
It will get to 105 today in Tucson.
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Tom Wolfe also addressed male fashion in "A Man In Full (Length Pants)."
"It will get to 105 today in Tucson."
Don't you stay inside in the air conditioning when it's that hot?
Did you see Mo Rocca's on CBS Sunday Morning talking about shorts. I was hoping he would interviw you. Sorry but in my seventies and still wearing shorts every summer day. Worst yet they are mostly cargo shorts.
Form "A Man in Full": "He had on an orange T-shirt so big the short sleeves came down to his elbows and the neck opening revealed his clavicle; the tail came down below his hips, so that you could barely see his baggy cut-off jeans, whose crotch hung down to his knees.”
I think the shorts per se are not the main problem. It's that an out-of-shape man is using an oversized T-shirt that hangs out over shorts that hang down to his knees. This transforms him into the big tummy/short legs silhouette associated with a child. It's not a good look. If no one is looking at you or you don't care, knock yourself out. You could even wear a sundress. It's your call.
"Shorts per se"
"Per se shorts"
I think if I was going to wear a sundress I'd go commando.
Tucson is always about 5 degrees cooler than Phoenix. Makes a difference during the day but especially appreciated in the early morning. *sigh*
If ossified men couldn't wear shorts, how could the 7 year olds at the pool touch grandpa felonyfinger's leg hairs that turn blonde in the Delaware sun?
"I think if I was going to wear a sundress I'd go commando."
De rigueur for the 'Scottish sundress'.
I never, ever wear shorts to work. How uncouth!
I'm sensing some mighty, suppressed Puritan undercurrents here, in this feminine shock and horror at manly legs being put on display without shame. Could there be some secret fascination at work, a forbidden titillation? Hmm.....
Message received all those years ago. And taken to heart. No matter how hot it is.
It’s probably illegal in some states to bear arms at the office.
I'm 82--the temperature today is 18 degrees higher than my age in years---so you betchum I'm in shorts.
I never feel as authentic as I do when I appear to be an ossified seven year old. If I should opt for the sundress in future I think I might insist on a set of Mary Janes to go with.
After all, it IS the 21st century, you know.
If you don't like shorts, try 34°0′2″N 81°2′5″W (34.0007° N, 81.0348° W) in August.
Here;s Althouse on one of her rants
About gentlemen wearing short pants.
Nothing from you does
Like shorts or bermudas
To add to her tally of can'ts.
Don't you stay inside in the air conditioning when it's that hot?
Someone has to get the mail and do the shopping. Walking to and from the car is a reminder of the brutal heat.
I walk (10K steps) five days a week in the early morning when it is only 80-85 degrees. Luckily, I can do that year round as opposed to the Midwest winters where I grew up.
AC is great but expensive here. We keep the house at 76 degrees, which is well suited for shorts.
I think about sizable number of women would wear a sleeveless dress, then butch to the women inHR that they were too cold and demand that the temperature be turned up, which HR would promptly require.
"But isn't the office air conditioned?"
AI response to a question about who is more likely to complain about the temperature in the office:
"Research generally finds that women, on average, report feeling colder in indoor workplaces more often than men, and studies of office temperature preferences often find that women prefer warmer conditions."
“ so that you could barely see his baggy cut-off jeans, whose crotch hung down to his knees.”
In the words of the old black comedian, “and he had one dangling in front like a base ball bat…”
"then butch to the women inHR"
A most exquisite typo, eliciting a series of hilarious images. Thank you autocorrect!
The only rule is that, if you have attractive legs, you can show them off- men or women, it doesn't matter. If your legs are unattractive, you should wear pants.
"Research generally finds that women, on average, report feeling colder in indoor workplaces more often than men, and studies of office temperature preferences often find that women prefer warmer conditions."
My mother in July and the house temp is 75: "I'm hot."
My mother in January when the house temp is 75: "I'm cold."
Shortly after I filed my retirement papers, I wore shorts to work one day. One of the other lawyers pointed his finger at me and said “you’ve gone too far!” Still makes me laugh.
I don't know, a nice looking man in tan, dress shorts with a short sleeve dress buttoned shirt, boat shoes and nice legs with defined calf muscles, not objectionable to me.
Speaking as a guy, if you're looking at men's legs, you're doing it wrong.
When I was working, a few brave souls wore shorts in the wilting Virginia summer heat.
Also, the built in women’s summer advantage explains why men prefer a cooler office.
I served with an Australian exchange officer in AZ. He had a dress uniform with shorts and tall green socks with garters. He looked sharp!
I'm wearing my cargo shorts (I have three pair on rotation) first because they are cooler, second because I have nice legs, and third because neener neener neener!
The aesthetic of the male adult leg, as perceived by our hostess, is the most consistently amusing part of the blog. There are so many parts of our bodies that are risible. Why are legs particularly awful? And in any case the visible male leg signals the degree of physical vitality and strength of its possessor.
There are some men who think women should never wear pants. Some judges ask that women wear skirts in their courtroom. I think it’s a similar thing to Althouse’s rule about men in shorts. Grown men should look like grown men. Grown women should look like grown women. It’s all very binary and retrograde.
Of course some feminist will claim that the women in skirts rule is just the male gaze and patriarchy or something. But what Althouse is talking about is the female gaze, her female gaze. She has a way that she likes to look at men. She wants it to be packaged a certain way. She doesn’t want unsightly male legs to ruin it.
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