Who Wears Short Shorts?
I always love it when a new season is upon us. The weather starts to change (or at least it should) and therefore, so apparently, should your wardrobe. Suddenly last year's capri's are so passe. You need to have this year's set, not that anyone outside the cast of Ugly Betty would know the difference. This is why it's right around this time that marketers everywhere bombard us with the latest trends and styles, read what you know what you SHOULD be wearing.
The only problem is it's all so boring since everything old is new again. This is because in fashion, just as it is with music, most of the good stuff has already been done before. We've seen sweater dresses. We're no strangers to belts. Now you put a belt around a sweater dress and poof! Shoppers have hit pay dirt.
Old Navy is perhaps one of the worst offenders of this. They always pick one trend to shove down our throats each season. In their latest advertisements, their piece du jour seems to be the classic short shorts. Seriously. Do y'all really think we've never seen shorts before?! For literally centuries, people have been putting their pants on, one leg at a time. It doesn't matter if those pants are slim fit, acid wash or cutoff. Pants are pants, plain and simple. All that makes these Old Navy shorts special is that they are indeed, from Old Navy.
The only people who should need new short shorts are the people who are buying them for the first time. But as anyone who is twenty-five or over knows there are very few items that are left to purchase that you've never owned before. Sure, you may occasionally need a new pair of boats to replace the old ones or you may want to grab a fleece hoodie in a different color, but replacing favorite items and discovering completely new ones are different matters entirely. The only possible exception to this is the girl whose getting a makeover because she lost a lot of weight or never tried a certain style before.
Men, of course, don't have these problems. This is further illustrated by the fact that you rarely see enticing advertisements geared towards men to come out and shop for clothes. Shorts are shorts to men. As are sweat pants, jeans, t-shirts, etc. They don't need colorful ads of happy models going clickety clackety down the street in order to get in their cars. Of course that doesn't mean they don't enjoy watching the leggy models as they walk down the street. These commercials, after all, work two fold.
Which brings me back to the fashion in question, short shorts. Every time I think of short shorts I think of two things. First, I think of Nair for short shorts, because I'm a commercial whore who relates everything back to jingles, it seems. The second is that I've never much cared for super short shorts. I always think they look good on other people, but never feel the same way about them on me. The trendiest of trends are often this way. I'm just too short to pull off the short short. I know that sounds insane, but it's true. I think the shortest of short shorts look the best on the tallest of girls. This is because they've got legs. It really doesn't matter if they know how to use them, they are there for the using.
So in short, you can keep your short shorts Old Navy. I've got a new batch of capri's with my name on 'em.
The only problem is it's all so boring since everything old is new again. This is because in fashion, just as it is with music, most of the good stuff has already been done before. We've seen sweater dresses. We're no strangers to belts. Now you put a belt around a sweater dress and poof! Shoppers have hit pay dirt.
Old Navy is perhaps one of the worst offenders of this. They always pick one trend to shove down our throats each season. In their latest advertisements, their piece du jour seems to be the classic short shorts. Seriously. Do y'all really think we've never seen shorts before?! For literally centuries, people have been putting their pants on, one leg at a time. It doesn't matter if those pants are slim fit, acid wash or cutoff. Pants are pants, plain and simple. All that makes these Old Navy shorts special is that they are indeed, from Old Navy.
The only people who should need new short shorts are the people who are buying them for the first time. But as anyone who is twenty-five or over knows there are very few items that are left to purchase that you've never owned before. Sure, you may occasionally need a new pair of boats to replace the old ones or you may want to grab a fleece hoodie in a different color, but replacing favorite items and discovering completely new ones are different matters entirely. The only possible exception to this is the girl whose getting a makeover because she lost a lot of weight or never tried a certain style before.
Men, of course, don't have these problems. This is further illustrated by the fact that you rarely see enticing advertisements geared towards men to come out and shop for clothes. Shorts are shorts to men. As are sweat pants, jeans, t-shirts, etc. They don't need colorful ads of happy models going clickety clackety down the street in order to get in their cars. Of course that doesn't mean they don't enjoy watching the leggy models as they walk down the street. These commercials, after all, work two fold.
Which brings me back to the fashion in question, short shorts. Every time I think of short shorts I think of two things. First, I think of Nair for short shorts, because I'm a commercial whore who relates everything back to jingles, it seems. The second is that I've never much cared for super short shorts. I always think they look good on other people, but never feel the same way about them on me. The trendiest of trends are often this way. I'm just too short to pull off the short short. I know that sounds insane, but it's true. I think the shortest of short shorts look the best on the tallest of girls. This is because they've got legs. It really doesn't matter if they know how to use them, they are there for the using.
So in short, you can keep your short shorts Old Navy. I've got a new batch of capri's with my name on 'em.
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