These vintage photos prove that teeny tiny short shorts are always in style
Fashions come and go, but some things are always on trend. Case in point? The glorious short short, a teeny tiny summer essential that’s never gone out of style.
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Fashions come and go, but some things are always on trend. Case in point? The glorious short short, a teeny tiny summer essential that’s never gone out of style.
But wait! I hear you saying. You’re not telling me that men in the 1930s and 40s went around wearing Daisy Dukes? I am telling you that, and what’s more, I have pictorial evidence.
In this amazing still, actors Lew Ayres and Robert Taylor show off their gams in the 1939 film Remember, and they’re not the only ones who were flashing thigh in this era.
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Another stunning example of the short short in its natural habitat is this 1940s drive-through dubbed “the male version of Hooters.”
In the 1940s, men dressed in short shorts and cowboy boots served up women at a drive through across the street from Love Field in Dallas, TX
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This used to be a country! A country where men would roll up to your window and serve you a plate of fries and some eye-level bulge! Even into the ’50s you could spot some of the juiciest male stars serving in teeny tiny short shorts.
It’s called giving the people what they want!
While short shorts were enjoyed throughout the early 20th century in casual environments like the gym, it took until the 1960s and 70s for them to show up on the street.
And when they did, they made quite the splash.
Men everywhere freed their thighs from the imprisonment of too-long pants, and the world reaped the benefits.
Even OG Hollywood stars like Gary Cooper got in on the action…
And now we’re living in a veritable golden age for short shorts, as evidenced by Instagram…
The bottom line is this: summer’s end may be fast approaching, but the reign of the teeny tiny short short is eternal.
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