Boardshorts
May 6th 2008 09:26
Looking up boardwalk and come across boardshorts
. See the prime example to the right. Splendiferous!
The way fashion has changed in beach wear is rather extraordinary. Men in particular have gone for longer and longer shorts (so long the word shorts seems no longer appropriate). All that wet material flapping around your legs doesn't grab me much, but it's the trend.
Women's gear of course, is skimpier and skimpier, which must say something, surely, about how the two sexes see themselves. Or how the two sexes want to see the other sex. I'm not quite sure which.
Do women want to expose as much body as possible, and men as little? Do men prefer women to be overexposed and underexposed themselves? What do women want men to be dressed in? Do our 'wants' have anything to do with it, or do we just have to put up with whatever the retailers say is the current fashion?
I tried to replace my swimshorts a couple of years ago. I was still wearing ones that look like the sort of shorts rugby players wear; they were longer than shorts used to be, but not excessively so.
Do you think I could find anything equivalent? Nope. It was all long shorts. No choice.
It's curious, isn't it, that in the supermarket there's so much choice that you go home exhausted, yet in other areas, such as general fashion, there's really no choice. There may be a variety of colours, but the style is so uniform that you have to take it or nothing.
I took nothing, and stopped swimming. (Just kidding!)
The way fashion has changed in beach wear is rather extraordinary. Men in particular have gone for longer and longer shorts (so long the word shorts seems no longer appropriate). All that wet material flapping around your legs doesn't grab me much, but it's the trend.
Women's gear of course, is skimpier and skimpier, which must say something, surely, about how the two sexes see themselves. Or how the two sexes want to see the other sex. I'm not quite sure which.
Do women want to expose as much body as possible, and men as little? Do men prefer women to be overexposed and underexposed themselves? What do women want men to be dressed in? Do our 'wants' have anything to do with it, or do we just have to put up with whatever the retailers say is the current fashion?
I tried to replace my swimshorts a couple of years ago. I was still wearing ones that look like the sort of shorts rugby players wear; they were longer than shorts used to be, but not excessively so.
Do you think I could find anything equivalent? Nope. It was all long shorts. No choice.
It's curious, isn't it, that in the supermarket there's so much choice that you go home exhausted, yet in other areas, such as general fashion, there's really no choice. There may be a variety of colours, but the style is so uniform that you have to take it or nothing.
I took nothing, and stopped swimming. (Just kidding!)
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