Random manly topics from my time at Creation:
I said I would get back to the topic of ‘hawks. It’s no secret around here: I am not a fan of the faux hawk. (I am, however, a fan of Hawk Nelson
And ‘hawks aren’t just for guys anymore. The front woman in Superchic(k)
While, sure, there is a faux hawk on this guy, one would have to conclude it’s part of a massive joke – the rest of the outfit certainly is! As Matt Thiessen of Relient K
I (heart) Relient K and want to marry adopt them.
Now a question or two for you ladies:
- Are you ready for the return of shorter shorts for men?
- Why is it that the guys can go about in the heat looking well-dressed and comfortable in their light-colored t-shirts and plaid bermudas, while the young ladies fear they’d be too hot with legs of any length on their shorts?
- Did you notice what’s unusual about Leon’s outfit pictured back here?
Back in the day, I marveled at how grown-ups wore pants to work in the summer! Didn’t they melt immediately after walking out the door?
Now I often wear long skirts and long-sleeved blouses to work (with a tank top underneath!) Somehow the body adjusts its thermostat.
~Anna
I am a firm believer that skirts & dresses are cooler on hot days than shorts of any sort.
N.B. The body’s thermostat often fails to correctly adjust during mentalpause. 😉
Anna ~ I have never mentioned it, but I almost always wear a tank top under my button-up shirts. Because of button gap and sheerness. I admit, though, on a recent super hot day, when my hero went to work without an under-shirt, I asked if I was okay in my white blouse without anything under. So, for the extreme heat of Creation, I did wear just a short-sleeved shirt with proper undergarments under, no additional tank top.
Wendy ~ Look at what you wrote, then go back and look at Leon’s outfit. 😉
Yup!
Good. So you can tell it’s a skirt, although we must be careful to say *kilt*.;) And I’m sure skirts are cooler. Except I’m not sure about a heavy black fabric. We saw a young guy in a green plaid kilt, which appeared to be a lighter cottony fabric. Now that looked comfortable. Except with women and men I wonder about sitting on the ground in a skirt. ?
At this very moment I am testing black & white. I bought two identical thermometers today and I have a black t-shirt covering one and a white on the other. This should be fun!
Oooohhh… your #1 question intrigues me… I wondered if and when this would ever come back- this is the embarrassment of my childhood coming back to haunt me (yes, my dad was a short-shorts offender back in the day).
I went to the website you linked and looked at the shorts… the shortest I think men should go is to the knee, or just maybe skimming the knee. Any shorter looks extremely feminine, no matter the cut. That’s jmho… others may see it differently, but I for one don’t want my husband in short shorts and I don’t want to see any OTHER man in shorts shorter than the knee!
(Thanks for the warning, though– just like all styles, I kind of assumed this one would be recycled, sadly.)
Jess @ Making Home
Hi Jess! It is kinda funny, what we get used to. Obviously, my hero and I are older than you – we grew up in the 70s – I have only recently gotten him to wear anything close to the knee, and believe me, he will NEVER wear *shorts* that are the length we ladies would call capris! How we convinced him to wear them just above the knee was by showing him that it looked immodest to the young people who are so used to guys in long shorts.
To my eye, all the looks the Sartorialist pictured were okay, but what Jars of Clay wore for their concert … that was just weird!
Thanks for answering. 🙂