Oh no, hems aren’t just for women! Like our skirts, in fact, too the length of men’s Bermuda shorts over the years it has been overwhelmed by trends and fashions that have upset styles and models. And if the beloved Mary Quant, in the Sixties, gave a clean cut to our knee length skirts, definitively uncovering our legs, it was a little different for men.
What do you mean? The (very) short men’s shorts, and the consequent thigh in plain sight, were cleared through customs twenty years later.
Ok, now you are all thinking of Sean Connery, who already in ’63 wore them with style (and we add sensuality) in 007, from Russia with love. But, think about it … he is him!
We waited for the eighties to see a statuesque and sexy one Tom Selleck show off a casual look with shorts that are not bad in the serial Magnum P.I. thus removing the idea that they were a purely sporty garment, associated in particular with the world of tennis.
And so Tom among Hawaiian shirts, match point pullovers and a baseball cap Detroit Tigers became an icon, still called into question today by the trends of men’s fashion. And looking at certain images, it must be admitted that the result was not bad.
So men’s shorts started to catch on. How to forget the scene from the movie Perfect from 1985 with John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis? Yes it’s true, it was an aerobics class but we all agree that John gave a lot?
And if in the world of music we have been used to seeing them on stage and not (see Axl Rose, for example). In everyday life, in the city, it has been very difficult to spot them in recent years, or rather decades.
Today we are getting used to seeing them in circulation, after the 2000s had brought down the hems, (and proportions) with the oversized rapper fashion that, at times, even reached the ankle.
And who is believing in this revival? One name above all, or rather two. Harry Styles e Alessandro Michele, creative mind of Gucci. The singer, in fact, appeared in one of the short presentation films of the Spring / Summer 2021 collection of the brand with short shorts in denim and pink T-shirt. Once again champions of moda no gender.
«The shorter the shorts and the thigh are exposed, the more trendy it is» wrote our colleagues from GQ When Paul Mescal, the actor of Normal People based on the novel by Sally Rooney, it was paparazzi in London last summer.
And just last week a similar photo of Milo Ventimiglia, taken while the actor of This is Us he came out of the gym, he went around the world via the web. Why? His shorts, which left little to the imagination about how toned his quads were, brought attention to this masculine piece again.
But the correct measurement to consider for the length of the shorts, then, what is it?
We have not yet found a universal answer but with regard to this topic we cannot fail to mention the catchphrase Tik Tok last summer. There Generation Z, in fact, he has very clear ideas on the subject: for them the correct length is: 5 inches (12.7 cm).
@ksmittyy29The lifeguard shorts got a glow up ##5inseam ##shorts ##fyp ##lifeguard ##foryoupage♬ all credit to TATI – Dylan
We are sure it will be a trend and that this summer we will see more and more men in shorts (but short shorts). Browse the gallery above to see more images of those who have already succumbed to this trend, today or in the past, in real life or in fiction. You will also find the Spring-Summer 2021 fashion shows and the micro pants to buy now!
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