“Shorter the shorts, closer to God.” So said actor Brandon Flynn as he proclaimed himself a fan of barely-there inseams, joining a club that includes Donald Glover, Jonathan Bailey, Gladiator II co-stars Pedro Pascal and Paul Mescal, and all the social media users below.
Long past the dark ages of below-the-knee (read: homophobic) hems, blogger Jhanvi celebrated “slutty shorts” and the grip they have on “girlies, gays & theys” in a recent Gaysi post, writing:
Short shorts, right from the pin-up days to the “hot pants” of the 1970s, have come a long way and in fact, right back to where we started: a.k.a. the upper thigh. … After the extremely low-hanging, loose silhouette of “board shorts” in the 90s to the 2010s, we have finally returned to hot pants. We are once again falling in love with the himbos, realizing that the real problem was never “masculinity” but rather “toxic” masculinity.
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Redditors, too, are loving the resurgence of short shorts. Example comments from a recent thread:
“I have been proudly wearing inappropriately short shorts since 2015, and I’m glad everyone else is getting on board, 5” and 7” inseam shorts are the best!”
“Hot-DILF-summer has officially started. I’m seeing short shorts on all kinds of dads and am very here for it.”
“Anything that shows more skin is a plus.”
And on Instagram, users have been giving us a thigh high with their short selfies. Here’s a sampling.
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