My phone was shouting at me on a comatose Sunday morning. In the pot luck of a TikTok algorithm stew – Elden Ring combos, nice jackets, extremely drunk people being escorted off EasyJet flights – a deep voice rang through my room as a himbo of the highest order in small black Nike shorts deadlifted what was the equivalent of a small Jeep: “if you’re not wearing the sluttiest shorts ever to the gym, you’re doing it wrong.” In gyms, on beaches, in streets, in pubs , clubs and in razor-sharp thirst traps, short shorts have prevailed.
Again. Over the last four years, a display of ample thigh has been the summer ideal for men – and that is in direct contravention to the usual law of fashion physics, where things and trends rise and fall. Short shorts, then, have far outlived the usual life expectancy.
The summer of 2024 is destined for slutty menswear and the people who love it once more. Four years ago, a famous image of Paul Mescal began to circulate. He was wearing a pair of white Irish football shorts.
Since then, many have blamed the short shorts cycle on the All of us Strangers star: no trial, no prosecution, no jury. Because, as the world continues to canonise him as the new supreme of dream boys, sports shorts have become his calling card – so much so, that newspapers and magazines across the planet continue to quiz him on the topic. Which, understandably, must get a bit tiresome on the press trail.
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