Shorts for the office - Would You?

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.