No, not just Richard Simmons and his Dolphin shorts - but almost all men.
Mike favored a longer short, shorter socks and even made being bald cool (No, not Yul Brynner (The Pharaoh in The Ten Commandments) nor Telly Savalas (The guy who played Kojak)).
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Hey Mike was the one on TV but I tell you a young Freeman wasn't wearing short shorts before MJ got drafted.
I think MJ made it mainstream but like everything else it came from the streets.
Yeah... but before mike it was hard to find long shorts
Actually, the Fab Five Freshmen of Michigan brought the long shorts into national consciousness. When they first went pro, the NBA had not adjusted the length of shorts, and players would wear compression shorts that would extend below the bottom of the basketball shorts.
I played HS ball in the 70s, when men weren't ashamed of their thighs and women liked them, too. In the early 90s, it all changed.
I remember going to high school games and our school, the poorer one, wore previous years uni's and as everyone else's shorts got longer we looked more and more stupid. The day our team rolled onto the court in new knee length shorts we were kings of the world.
I think the trend has gone too far the other way. The shorts are almost pants now. Are we charting mens' version of hemlines now?
And the bald thing, I think it works better for black men. Most white guys, it just looks like they are undergoing chemo, or planning a killing spree.
I saw a group of young men on the train last week who were wearing very short tight shorts and they weren't gay. I suspect there is a new fashion in shorts for men about to hit with a return to the seventies.
@ brotherbrown - I used to wear Daisy Duke-type shorts as well.
I won "best Legs" back in high school.
But having ones... ummm... meat fall out while running was uncomfortable.
@ brohammas - You wore Larry Bird shorts back then too?
Thank the Fab Five.
@ JK - Too long and it gets hard to run.
Something about the hem on the knee.
But yeah... some shorts are almost Gauchos or Pedal Pushers these days.
@ MissAJ - I'll pass on that trend - something bad about wearing 'ball busters'.
Real men had long hair and short shorts
brotherbrown - You went to and played for "The Shaw"
Respect.
Sitting around a campfire with my sons this week I mentioned the extremely short shorts to them and asked if they were fashionable. They nodded their heads and then said that they wouldn't be wearing them but they would wear shorts that were a bit shorter than the ones they currently own. I shall be waiting with bated breath for next summer and the delights of male anatomy to come on show.
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