[The NYT covered this embarrassing trend May 11th, but I'm not going to pay for the archive.. The ladies over at GoFugYourself have been covering this upsetting phenomenon for quite some time as well. I'm working from the LA Times treatment.]
Consider this a public service announcement. If the LA Times is even remotely close to being accurate in this fluff piece on the latest trend in women's apparel I'm going to hurl or gouge out my eyes. I don't care what you call them: tailored shorts, city shorts, dressed-up shorts, they are RIDICULOUS and UGLY. Just because Mischa, Lindsay, Nicole, Jennifer, Britlee, etc do this does not make it acceptable or good.
Ladies, trust me here. If you think that you will be taken seriously in your office shorts OR look 'sexy' in what is essentially a child's leisure garment, you are sorely mistaken (unless your goal is to gain the lusty attentions of Charlie Sheen I guess).
Seriously, these shorts look stupid. Just because you may have nice legs, doesn't mean you can wear tailored shorts to accentuate them successfully --any more than you can make nice boobs nicer by having them spill up, over, and out of a top, or a well groomed cooch more well groomed by flashing it.
Shorts on adults is always a risky venture, and I tend to honor the theorem that the appropriateness of shorts is inversely related to the wearer's distance from the seaside.
By now you may be starting to get defensive, thinking to yourself "I could pull them off", or "In the right place and time, they could be cute". Wrong. Nowhere and never are they going to work.
Aaaaaarrrgggggg! Ahoy Kiebler Elves!Resist the urge. Please. (I myself held out against the pathetically tragic trend of the 'popped collar' on a polo shirt and came out better for it).
Unfortunately, I don't think this is the last we shall be hearing of this unfortunate phenomenon.
Stay tuned.
Unfortunately, I don't think this is the last we shall be hearing of this unfortunate phenomenon.
Stay tuned.
3 comments:
Uh... GAG! That LAT photo of Nicky Hilton makes her look like an Auschwitz prisoner who got, er, ... shorted.
It's just nasty.
I wonder how long it will take for my eyes to recover from seeing this.
i've just discovered you- my new favorite blog. thanks!
this reminds me of the time I considered wearing cropped pants with high heel boots and XT informed me that I looked like a crew member of the Starship Enterprise.
Everyone needs a friend like that.
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