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
one reason i support this look is that i like the long-sleeves/short-pants silhouette
― max, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
dude on the right is an 'associate merchant' at j. crew btw
― max, Friday, 1 August 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― gabbneb, Friday, 1 August 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Friday, 1 August 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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)
― daria-g, Friday, 1 August 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Suck it, monkeys, etc.
http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f131/tempdump/th_shorts.jpg
― nabisco, Friday, 1 August 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I bought a pair of those michael kohrs shorts in saks, 50% off the sale price. Then I left them in a bar ;_;
― Ed, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ sounds like a fun night
― nabisco, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously
nice shorts nabisco!
― Surmounter, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
nabisco you look good in those shorts in your chamber of infinities
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
cardinal sin or not, both yesterday and today i have not changed into my jeans after cycling into work. and i liked it.
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Friday, 3 July 2009 10:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
I might pull the trigger on this later in the week.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link