Singing Loudly

Slate has a wonderful article about how the summer is the one season where people believe they can be forgiven for dressing like fashion idiots. I've said before that I don't agree with male's wearing shorts.

My reasons for this are very simple: (1) I've never seen one guy who looks better wearing shorts than jeans or slacks. Most guys have the ugliest legs you've ever seen. This is especially true of the guys who wear shorts. (2) You either have to wear shoes and look like a fashion idiot or flip flops and look like a fashion idiot. There are very few guys who look good in flip flops or sandals. Most guys just end up looking lazy, unstylish, unable to dress himself.

I realize that I can't convince the fashion illiterate of the reasons not to wear shorts. However, I plea to you to follow at least three tips for wearing shorts: (1) Don't wear jean shorts. Guys in jean shorts look like they have just awoken from a 25 year coma. (2) If you must wear jean shorts, don't wear thigh high black socks with it like my neighbor. Finally, (3) if you must wear any sort of shorts make sure they are not short shorts.

*Obviously, the one exception is if you're going on a run. Wear shorts. Wear short shorts if you're a serious long distance runner and you're running in a race.