Shorts. Let us discuss.

Shorts [shawrts]
- noun
1. trousers, knee-length or shorter, usually worn during the warm summer months. See also: capris, pedal pushers, short pants (spants).

Shorts were something I used to associate with basketball players, beach holidays and British prep school uniforms. However, it has recently come to my attention that shorts have made a typhoon of a comeback. Sitting in Starbuck's this morning, I counted no less than 14 people wearing this particular article of clothing. Nothing unusual about that - it was hot, the less fabric touching one's skin, the better. Completely understandable. But - and this is a big but - short shorts are not shorts! They aren't even faux shorts. They are bloody hot pants and should not be masquerading as anything else! It's not 1977, people - I should not be able to see the area wherein your upper thigh morphs into the curve of your derriere. Ever.

Adding insult to injury, guilty parties are determined to pair this ghastly garment with those blousy, loose fitting tops that hit somewhere around the mid-hip area, making it look like they are either pioneering some sort of bottoms-option style or have just stumbled, bleary-eyed, out of someone's darkened apartment and were too hungover to bother searching for their pants.

So next time you decide that it is absolutely imperative that you sport hot pants in public, please do a quick butt cleavage check as a courtesy to the people walking behind you. Thank you. Class dismissed.

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Posted by KATHERINE