Channel4 short shorts

[Byron]

Do you know Aware Zungaboy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxnWG7R5T7I

[California Dolphin]

Here's a recent article from the Wall Street Journal:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...tory_LeadStory

When you see an article like this in the WSJ (a "conservative" publication), you know the trend for the shorter look is gathering momentum. Also, most of the comments seem to be very supportive.

[Byron]

LOL CD - never thought I would see a discourse in the WSJ on the matter and they show their age a bit with knickerbockers* and breeches showing up (clam diggers I have not heard of).
Is it you or PSD who hails from SF? - have you seen the Chubbies guys as mentioned ?

*a gentleman out on a shoot with his gamekeeper and in his knickerbockers
(Edward VII if I'm not mistaken): http://www.vintagers.org/king2.jpg

PS: Not so sure about the calf-length socks as mentioned in the comments and so many forget that the bush rangers in African game reserves have been setting the trend for bare legs for many many years anyway (just imagine telling those guys to wear boardies - let alone scaring to death the poor animals !)

[Torchwatch]

I was a skinny child, my long socks always fell down even with garters on, my rugby socks always sank to my ankles.
It didn't matter how many times I tried to "pull my socks up", they always fell down. becoming a runner allowed me to wear short ankle shock that could be pulled on and forgotten.

[Byron]

There are I believe also minimal athletic socks now available which cover the heel but which do not go as far up as the ankle bone.

[Torchwatch]

These "minimal athletics socks" are entirely hidden by training shoes giving the appearance of not wearing socks, at first I found the combination of oversized shorts with undersized socks a bit strange, as if the wearer was making up for covering his knees by exposing his ankles.
Last year I actually bought a multipack of minimal socks for cycle camping, they cut the weight and bulk of spare socks I was carrying and were so cheap as to be disposable if I couldn't be bothered to carry dirty socks home. Worn with Lycra cycle shorts and cleated shoes I found them good enough to use again this year.

[shaulis]

Runners like those "no-show" socks. They add little to no extra weight to their body so the runners claim.

[Byron]

Sungaboy - forgot a PS to post#5 : see also what SingletLover says on
his post#67 in thread Yummy.

[Byron]

I think I found my tanga now: https://road2rio2014.files.wordpress...b8_o.jpg?w=604

[zungaboy]

Originally Posted by California Dolphin

Here's a recent article from the Wall Street Journal:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...tory_LeadStory

When you see an article like this in the WSJ (a "conservative" publication), you know the trend for the shorter look is gathering momentum. Also, most of the comments seem to be very supportive.

Is important to understand about “be conservative” sometimes it don’t deal about “how much skin you show” … be conservative deal about “how much OK you are with the establishment” a example of this at the 80’s with the “Yuppie” movement be a guy in a shortly tennis shorts pants with the business pals at the Sunday playing tennis or be a patriarchal dad shirtless washing the car were icons of the values of a “Family Guy”… currently now shirtless is a guy who “broke the rules” of the establishment… the import is think. Why the establishments change the rules?... For me the “regular people” NEVER choice…. They only take one of the two or three possibilities that the establishment give to take……. In any moment the establishment thinks “is a moment to give more liberty” and in other decades “Is the moment to take of the liberty to the people”, the trick is that the people always think they are always free to choice, but is only an illusion……