Short Shorts On The Way Back!!!

[Byron]

Swimmers maybe - but no issues with the water polo guys I would suggest
(in fact the less to wear the better)

[Byron]

OP green kelly seem to be corduroy walking shorts
(and Etsy some sort of craftsmen's cooperative from Brooklyn NY
but pricing goods on the website in GBP).

I would have thought STS's preference in running shorts to be something like this:
(nil inseam in the approved competition wear for this Oz athletic club)
http://www.athleticsact.org.au/_/rsr...ing_shorts.jpg

[Minimalist75]

I liked the look of the front pockets sticking out below the bottom of the shorts on cutoffs when short shorts were in fashion.

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

My post referring to OP shorts was about how lengths have changed for guys shorts and swimwear. Go read it again.... OP shorts were the in-style guys casual shorts of the day.

[shaulis]

Basketball players such as Michael Jordan really got long shorts in the mainstream when the players decided against wearing the usual short shorts that were worn for years. They wanted shorts that were more their style which were longer and looser than the older players' shorts.

[Byron]

.......might that by any chance include the manufacturers' opportunity for a price-hike, advertising space, and lurid coloring?
I have yet to be convinced that a long mass of manmade fiber clinging to a sweaty leg during play can in some way be more comfortable to wear.

[Torchwatch]

The drug gangs in the USA started to wear big baggy shorts in the 1990's, they were able to hide drugs and weapons in their shorts. The black and later white communities followed suit when they played street basket ball and followed the fashion of the tougher guys.
The "moral majority" jumped onto the bandwagon, they identified shorter shorts with the gay community, and so turned young people against, showing their legs.
Interesting to see how in the WW2 era photos the guys went topless, but covered the navel.
The pre WW2 swimmers covered their chests but exposed their legs, in heavy cotton it must have been hard to swim. No wonder so many schools enforced naked swimming.

[Byron]

Heavy cotton might well be suitable in training as a drag suit today but I can still remember the horrors of oversized speedos in scratchy soggy wool !

[California Dolphin]

I know for a fact that the long and baggy look that guys all over the place are now wearing originated as the uniform for prison inmates and was initiated by the California Dept. Of Corrections some time in the early 80s.

Then Rappers and basketball players adopted the look.

[shaulis]

I remember that the long versus short shorts in the NBA actually made the national news. The coaches at the time were definitely against longer/baggier shorts saying they would make their players look like gang members. It wasn't much later until the college basketball players wore longer shorts as well.