Shorts for the office - Would You?

baderonixx, I had to read your post 3 times before I parsed slapping as slapping not sleeping with.

people are too hard on shorts. it just depends on your job.

postman, ups guy...

also in the summer, sometimes shorts are all i can do. i have a problem with heat and i'm not about to faint b/c certain people can't look at legs.

never never never never never

that said I'm wearing shorts every day this summer as a huge exception to my usual no-shorts policies (it's hot here).

The important think about formal bermuda attire is the socks

http://www.bermuda-online.org/shorts2.jpg

http://www.bermuda-online.org/shorts.htm

Sur - I dont have a problem with shorts myself but these mini-suits are just wrong

also the whole thing about women being able to wear short things to work and men not being able to pisses me off. women can look professional in a knee-length skirt or dress. we should have an option as well.

i don't know the mini-suits don't look so terrible to me WOW SHOCKA I LIKE THE WEIRD OUTFIT

Guy on the left somehow reminds me of those tarted up poodles wondering what they have done to deserve such a treatment from their senile masters

http://breyfamily.net/images/bermuda/LastNightOut.jpg

:/

All three of those pairs of shorts in the Times are shorter than ANYTHING I would wear to work, although I may be somewhat conservative in that. Those are not knee-length.

Also the white guy on the far right looks a) gay as a March hare, and b) like a total douchebag.

http://www.pup-n-stuff.com/ProductImages/dog%20shorts.jpg

I suspect Thom Browne is responsible for all this

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/thunderw21/ThomBrownesuitshorts.jpg

yea the three looks above are a little short, but i'm just sayin, we need a short option. is not fair.

wtf is tom brown and why is he so cute

Not:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1003/976560696_e750543a75.jpg

It would be "fair" if everyone wore pants, and only pants. People in professional arenas (court, finance, etc) who think women should wear skirts or that skirts are more "correct" are arguing for for women's symbolic sexual availability. Whether they know it or not.

And I hate wearing pants! But the above is still true.

A group of other women argued me down in college on this issue: that a pair of my wool gabardine dress pants was LESS formal than a denim overall jumper, because the jumper was a dress and dresses were categorically more "formal" for women.

i completely disagree!

denim + overalls = not formal

at all

yeah - in which part of the world are denim overalls considered formal?

Not overalls, a JUMPER. For non-Americans, this is not a sweater, it's something like this:

http://www.careapparel.com/images/36_full.jpg

Obv they were all crazy and soft in the head from living with/being crazy Christian Evangelicals, you don't have to scratch the surface very hard to get people to admit that they secretly think women ought to always wear dresses.

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH where we were discussing "suit" shorts....

lol that outfit

Epic fail. Dude looks like Buster Bluth.

people are too hard on shorts. it just depends on your job.

-- Surmounter, Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:09 AM (Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:09 AM) Bookmark Link

Do I operate the Safari ride at Disneyworld? No?

then HELL NO.

funny that in order for men to wear shorts they have to work at disneyworld. BULLSHIT. it's very old-fashioned and bizarre.

in my mind it's the same thing as insisting a woman wear a skirt to work. stuck in the good old days.

fight the good fight, Surmounter

i sure fucking am

the idea that only 1 cut of cloth can look OK on a man's body makes me so angry.

My old boss gave me grief about the one time I pulled it off (record heat wave in SF, 110+ degrees) but then when I went to lunch I saw the owner of the company also in shorts so I took a camphone pic and sent it to my boss and said "sup".

AWESOME

Surm are you saying shorts are office appropriate though?

it completely depends. i work at a progressive arts institution and i feel very comfortable coming to work in shorts, as do other guys here. so, yes.

people like making rules about things

dudes wear regular dude shorts to my work but no one really cares what we look like. i've worn the same pair of jeans for three days in a row now

I would like to reiterate comment above regarding ultimate doucheness of man on the right

i'd hit it

Although I guess he's the only one not going for the awful mini-suit thing

I guess maybe the real debate here is: would you put a belt on shorts?

Do they stay up without one?

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.

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.

yeah this is nonsense - shorts are great

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

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)

http://z.about.com/d/mensfashion/1/0/m/1/JBSP057.JPG

if only i had the guts and money

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+

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.

Ed, did you just say that flat-front walking shorts are too dressy for your office?

srsly

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?

i like the green polos and i like their price

http://a488.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/31/l_6ae2f4dc3390e2b98640b941cb62d91f.jpg

"Ah! Just another wonderful day at the office!"

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.

- 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)

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.

shorts outside of the office for men or women = fine
shorts at the office on men or women = you look fucking ridiculous

lol i wore shorts to teh office on monday
and my orange hairless-cat t-shirt

it is possible that i have officially 'checked-out' re: job

shorts get so much hate from dudes i dont really get it

is it a 'masculinity' thing

yes

i'm gonna say, like anything, it depends on the person/guy

i mean shorts for a casual office are fine, but trying to do the dress shorts or short suit thing looks absurd

my shorts are kind of shiny purple with lavender pin-stripes and i pair them with an oversize pirate shirt
btw

for special occasions
job interviews
etc

lol grad school ;)

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.

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

Nabisco, I am eager to see shorts incoporated into the pretty 50s engineer look (or was it a mechanic?).

preppy! I meant

one reason i support this look is that i like the long-sleeves/short-pants silhouette

dude on the right is an 'associate merchant' at j. crew btw

yeah, i fail, lol. is my guess that far off of what j. crew is after? maybe they're more youthful. dude in the middle is apparently a branding consultant or something.

I'm at work. I'm wearing shorts. It's my first time.

Having done the whole thing lots of guys do with never wearing shorts for the entirely of their 20s, I am now of the opinion that it is good and natural for a man to figure out, by the age of 30, how to wear them in a way that's relatively appropriate and stylish.

shorts for work are fine.. I wear them sometimes, slim + just above the knee in black or navy (LOL, most everything I wear is black or navy)

Suck it, monkeys, etc.

http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f131/tempdump/th_shorts.jpg

I bought a pair of those michael kohrs shorts in saks, 50% off the sale price. Then I left them in a bar ;_;

^^ sounds like a fun night

seriously

nice shorts nabisco!

nabisco you look good in those shorts in your chamber of infinities

cardinal sin or not, both yesterday and today i have not changed into my jeans after cycling into work. and i liked it.

shorts should be an option.
I think folks who insist on an anti-shorts stance are kinda 'itt blogs instruct you how to be a man' from people who are prob not as stylish as they think they are.
and maybe they own a fedora or something.

I might pull the trigger on this later in the week.