Shorts for the office - Would You?

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

oh wtf

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

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.

they are sexual.

i like the 1st one kerm. 2nd one eh, and definitely not professional

hmm, must buy more shorts.

Those beards are massively grossing me out.

well yeah not squaresville office tie professional. i don't like their shoes, either. just dudes wearing shorts and not looking like children.

the 2nd one just looks like he's going to the beach!

to sell some yachts...

It think I want the beardy man's striped shorts

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

4 the office? the 1st ones would be ok

guys you are overlooking the real challenge of this look -- how to wear dressy shoes with shorts?? is going sockless really actually an option?

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.

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

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.

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