The [Misguided] State of "Shorts" - Shorts are apparently out of style. I wish they would come back. These things people wear today, like the ones on the left from Banana Republic, look more like clam diggers that are flooding. Clamdigger-floods is a good name for them. They're odd.

I've also noticed a lot of African-American men wearing what amounts to really shoddy denim culottes. They're styled after denim shorts, but they're really baggy and they come down about mid-calf ... not form flattering at all. Well, they're not even baggy, because they don't really bag. They're just excessively wide, absurdly wide, and for what purpose I'll never know. I take pride in never figuring it out. Essentially, they're culottes. As not enough of us know, culottes are traditionally worn by women, and I'm sure a lot of these hard-core bangers don't know anything about that.

How I yearn for the days of real shorts, the days when Bjorn Borg ruled the grasses of the All England Club. Well, maybe not that far back. They wore really short shorts back then, "nutcrackers" some people called them. I don't need anything that short or that tight. Let's just go back to the mid-1990s when shorts were at a decent length and a little baggy. That was a good era, not too short or too long, not too tight or too baggy.

Basically, shorts were at their best when His Airness, Michael Jordan ruled the NBA. Go back and look at the length of MJs trunks during his title years and you'll get my gist. What retailers are jamming us up with today is sub-par.