How short should you go with your shorts this summer?
telegraph.co.ukPaul Mescal in his teensy Kildare shorts are fine, but this pale Scotsman was given short shrift. Sean Connery in 1964’s Woman of Straw I am not.The issue of how low, or high, you should go is a particularly of-the-moment debate.
The catwalks would have you believe that thigh-skimming proportions are the way forward; in fact the term “short shorts” has been termed just for that – tiny, tiny shorts on the catwalks of Prada, Miu Miu and Gucci.
But unless you’re a willowy Soviet youth, such diminutive arrangements are hard to pull off. So what’s the ideal length?The older generation might be more used to longer iterations, particularly if you remember Duke of Edinburgh yomps avoiding brambles in the gloamin’ and mosquitoes in Kenya, but long, saggy cargo shorts full of pockets are tricky.
Handy, no doubt, but those proportions don’t do anyone any favours. The opposite number is high on the thigh, which I grant you comes with a certain Eighties-Euro-campsite aesthetic.
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