i'd hit it
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Although I guess he's the only one not going for the awful mini-suit thing
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess maybe the real debate here is: would you put a belt on shorts?
Do they stay up without one?
― Ed, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
the idea that only 1 cut of cloth can look OK on a man's body makes me so angry.
I think most men look fine in shorts, I like men's legs. I hang out with guys in kilts on a semi-regular basis and believe me I take advantage of the fashion (and pale, pale British Isles types, too). I'm just skeptical about their being professionally appropriate, which is different.
― Laurel, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
ok good i'm relieved to hear this, Laurel. my girlfriend here at work says she NEVER likes to see men in shorts. which just bugs me.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah this is nonsense - shorts are great
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://bp3.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/SI8PNLael-I/AAAAAAAAD0I/JCstjN4YEBU/s1600-h/6238ShortsMocsweb.jpg http://bp0.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/SIfWunjx0KI/AAAAAAAADww/nJ29segP3_4/s1600-h/7238MercerStweb.jpg
― Kerm, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wtf
― Kerm, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I do feel somehow that men's legs are quite personal and sexual, with all the tendons showing in the backs of the knees, and the sinew of the ankles, and the musculature. Frankly I don't know men can be so cavalier about women's legs showing all the time, if I had to reverse it I might go slightly mad.
― Laurel, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
they are sexual.
i like the 1st one kerm. 2nd one eh, and definitely not professional
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
hmm, must buy more shorts.
― Ed, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Those beards are massively grossing me out.
― Laurel, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
well yeah not squaresville office tie professional. i don't like their shoes, either. just dudes wearing shorts and not looking like children.
― Kerm, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
the 2nd one just looks like he's going to the beach!
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
to sell some yachts...
― Kerm, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
It think I want the beardy man's striped shorts
― Ed, Thursday, 31 July 2008 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Wondering now about these:
http://images.saksfifthavenue.com/images/products/04/217/7755/0421777552187/0421777552187_275x275.jpg
http://images.saksfifthavenue.com/images/products/04/471/9749/0447197495187/0447197495187_275x275.jpg
― Ed, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
4 the office? the 1st ones would be ok
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link
guys you are overlooking the real challenge of this look -- how to wear dressy shoes with shorts?? is going sockless really actually an option?
― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I was thinking for more in general, both of those would be too dressy for my office.
I can't contemplate wearing shorts with anything other than sandals really.
― Ed, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean i can see going sockless in mocs but lace-ups sans socks is a potentially awful thing, just imagining the pinching and blistering and sweating inspires a tug of sympathy for ladies and their torturous footwear
― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
no, it's terrible. sockless dress shoes are not ok. i would say either very short nice socks, or very high fancy socks, if you wanna go for the gay look.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
fwiw i think a summer suit with shorts is a pretty great idea, with a few stipulations (flat front shorts, tapered knee length, & funtional jacket cuffs to roll up would be a nice touch)
― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
http://z.about.com/d/mensfashion/1/0/m/1/JBSP057.JPG
if only i had the guts and money
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
clean plimsolls could work sockless with the shorts-suit look -- leaving the office-appropriate question aside for the moment
xpost omg @ silver fox in stripey sox A+
― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Pshaw re ladies' footwear, I don't like socks and wear flats/loafers/etc sockless as much as possible. Not torturous as long as the shoes are y'know not made of cheapo plastic parts that have edges sharp enough to slice bread.
― Laurel, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Ed, did you just say that flat-front walking shorts are too dressy for your office?
― Laurel, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
srsly
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Slightly tongue in cheek, but it is a scruffy bunch here.
Those were both from saks
http://www.saksfifthavenue.com/main/ProductArray.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524446183490&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374306418199&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474399545537&bmUID=1217520425808&SECSLOT=LN-Shorts
Do you think saks will still have summer stuff in store next week or will they have flipped on to autumn?
― Ed, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the green polos and i like their price
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://a488.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/31/l_6ae2f4dc3390e2b98640b941cb62d91f.jpg
"Ah! Just another wonderful day at the office!"
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I can only conclude that that guy is physically still pre-pubescent and has a) no adult musculature, and b) no genitalia. Both of which make me think he should be having a lie-down and a juice box.
― Laurel, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
- I think the guy on the right looks great, really terrific, would wear that often if I were him - Part of me thinks some of y'all have LEG SHAME - I have one pair of long slim-cut nice shorts that I would not hesitate to wear to the office, though I haven't done so yet; maybe if we get an August heat wave - I think short suits are a funny fashion idea that have no actual relevance to anyone except guys who work in superfancy places that deal with fashion or the arts or something -- but I do appreciate that I see lots of nice-looking men's stuff this summer that's not just all casual beachy lawn-mowing looking, like actual neat trim shorts and button-down combos and stuff that looks genuinely sharp and put-together (cf GUY ON RIGHT)
― nabisco, Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
ACTUALLY dude on the right has kind of a goof-douchey face going, and should lose the sunglasses; I guess I would "wear that often" if I were him while simultaneously wishing I was better looking and had slightly better legs for it.
― nabisco, Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
shorts outside of the office for men or women = fine shorts at the office on men or women = you look fucking ridiculous
― bell_labs, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
lol i wore shorts to teh office on monday and my orange hairless-cat t-shirt
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
it is possible that i have officially 'checked-out' re: job
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
shorts get so much hate from dudes i dont really get it
― max, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
is it a 'masculinity' thing
― max, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
yes
― nabisco, Thursday, 31 July 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm gonna say, like anything, it depends on the person/guy
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 31 July 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean shorts for a casual office are fine, but trying to do the dress shorts or short suit thing looks absurd
― bell_labs, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
my shorts are kind of shiny purple with lavender pin-stripes and i pair them with an oversize pirate shirt btw
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
for special occasions job interviews etc
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
lol grad school ;)
― Laurel, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I work in a casual office -- some of the guys in the studio here spend the summer in college-dude cargo-short style -- but I have yet to really break the wall, even on my really "nice" shorts. I'm on the line, though. Give me a serious enough heat wave, and I'll totally show up in corduroy tennis shorts.
― nabisco, Thursday, 31 July 2008 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
dude on the right - a junior partner/counsel or VP - is heading out early on friday from corporate douche office to the hamptons. that isn't what he wore in this morning.
dude in the middle - either a section editor or a summer intern - is on hour-plus bryant park lunch break from super-cool-fashion-publishing office
dude on the left is a sales associate at a broome st boutique and you have interrupted an important errand you old bag of a publication has no idea where he is or how he got into that outfit
― gabbneb, Friday, 1 August 2008 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Nabisco, I am eager to see shorts incoporated into the pretty 50s engineer look (or was it a mechanic?).
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
preppy! I meant
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link