[Closed] Grown men in shorts..............odd?

Post men and or women. Come rain or shine the pins are out.

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I wear shorts daily for work, then when i get home.
Like you ill wear shorts all year round-till it gets reet brass monkeys!
Still got flip flops on in November!

Post up a picture and I will give you the benefit of my opinion. Do you go for the whole school boy look like that AC/DC guitarist?

no way!!

I have to wear a suit for work so when I am not working 95% of the time I'm in cargo shorts or baggies

i pretty much wear shorts all year round and frankly i don't care if anyone thinks it's odd

or are you turning up at work in your boxers? That would be odd.....

No - nothing odd at all with shorts. I would say that the bloke is being a little odd himself in thinking that. Tell him to "**** off" in a polite sort of way.

Shorts on a man say something to me about where you see yourself in society. I stopped wearing shorts after infant school personally.

i just hope i look better in my shorts than barnes does in his....................... 😉

Most grown men in this country alternate between garish nylon tracksuits with 'Le Coq Sportif' emblazoned across them and the classic square toed slip-on shoes with entirely superfluous metal buckle/stonewashed jeans/pastel coloured easy-iron short sleeved shirt mega combo.

Why should anyone care what they think of your attire?

i know barnes does and so do i for 10 months of the year, but is it odd for grown men to wear shorts in everyday life.

I only reluctantly wear long pants about 12 hours a year :o) But I don't have any tattoos...

Shorts on a man say something to me about where you see yourself in society

ya think ? In my case it just represents comfort and determination!

Tend to wear shorts and flip flops from may to October. To hell with what people think. Am 37 BTW. The wife hates it though.

If you men have a nice pair of pins. then show them off.

I spent a lot of my life hiding my legs because I thought they were skinny and embarrassing. Then I discovered through rugby and skiing that despite their size they were much faster and stronger than most. Then a girl in a niteclub chatted me up and told me that the thing that most attracted her to me was my thighs. After that I thought sod it, I don't care what they look like and wear shorts pretty much all the time when I'm off duty, and sometimes even on it. Wear what you are comfiest in, if it's not the shorts it would be something else. Some people just aren't happy unless they are picking fault.

Shorts here for as long as possible,working outside it gets a bit cold by the end of November, but I never wear longs to cycle in

Shorts for me 🙂

Mrs BigJohn & I rode down to the pub last night and I was in shorts, mainly so I don't get caught up in the chain, which is a bugger when your riding home pissed on a fixed with clips'n'straps. She was in something called Capri pants or something.

57 here, and still not decided what I want to do when I grow up.

"Shorts on a man say something to me about where you see yourself in society"

Care to enlighten us shorts wearers as to what that is, Penrod?

Laid back and scruffy!

I'm 34 and wear shorts and flipflops all year round unless it's snowing out and even then I tend to wear them indoors.

Care to enlighten us shorts wearers as to what that is, Penrod?

Don't mind Penrod, he appears to be stuck in the 1940's.

Long trousers for me, when I can

Then again, I'm made to wear shorts for work - might be figure hugging but that gold lamé's gradually wearing through to my coccyx, I'll tell you

I like shorts when it's warm weather

Lol @ BigJohn - I'm "only" 45 and not only have I still not decided what I want to be when I grow up but I haven't even decided if I actually want to grow up at all...

Oh, and shorts most of the time when I'm not in work, here...

my hubby wears shorts in the evening and weekends... just something hes done for ages...'feels more comfortable' he says after wearing trousers all day.. nowt wrong with that... 😉

I love me shorts, Its jeans I cant stand.

I hate riding in trousers, it's so uncomfortable.

I like shorts when it's warm weather

Me too, above 7C will do it 🙂

And maybe colder too if I'm riding about lots. When I lived in balmy southern climes (Bristol) I wore shorts every day for a year (except at work). People thought I was mad! I thought people were mostly southern shandy drinkers.

in between with 3/4 ers, have 2 pairs of camo endura that just seem to keep alternating between washing and wearing, dont like jeans, WTF about where you fit into society? wear what you like 😮

i am on the lookout for some dark cord cargo type shorts, if anyone has any idea's where i might get some??

32 here and wear shorts most of the year. I'm fortunate enough to be able to wear them to work half the week too.

57 here, and still not decided what I want to do when I grow up.

Me neither, in fact why bother growing up at all? Oh and long trousers are boring . . . fact!

PS: I actually bought a frock today . . . not a long one though 😉

Penrod Pooch - Member
Shorts on a man say something to me about where you see yourself in society. I stopped wearing shorts after infant school personally.

Like most men born between the wars, my grandfather wore a boring grey suit every day from the time he started work 'til the day he died.

When he relaxed in the house, he took his tie off.

Today, with a hint of rain in the air he would have had an overcoat with him as well. I'll bet he sweated like a french cheese.

He would also ask why everybody wore shorts all the time, if he was alive today.

Shorts in warm weather, or doing sports. Cold weather means trousers.

And wearing flipflops other than at the beach or in a gym changing room is just wrong.

Penrod Pooch - Member
Shorts on a man say something to me about where you see yourself in society. I stopped wearing shorts after infant school personally.

So that was just before you disappeared up your own arse.

Like most men born between the wars, my grandfather wore a boring grey suit every day

my dad was born between the wars. I have photogrpahic evidence that he wore a suit to get married, but I never saw him in one.

What would he have thought of grown men in lycra?!

simonfbarnes - Member

Like most men born between the wars, my grandfather wore a boring grey suit every day

my dad was born between the wars. I have photogrpahic evidence that he wore a suit to get married, but I never saw him in one.

You forgot to add that he was a naturist.

You forgot to add that he was a naturist.

actually, I can only recall seeing him naked once 🙂

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i am on the lookout for some dark cord cargo type shorts, if anyone has any idea's where i might get some??

Thanks (gok) Ton you just gave me an idea what to do with my torn Howies cords.

To turn it around, it would be very odd for a man to turn up at my work wearing anything more formal than a shirt and trousers. If someone is in a suit, it's because they are being interviewed for something. I'd guess that today well over half the men will be wearing shorts or shorter trousers of some sort, and many will carry on doing that through the year.

The benefits of working in a mild part of the country, not being customer facing, and having an overly warm office to work in?

The recent propensity of the British to male to wear shorts and flip flops at all times says more to me about the collapse of our society than binge drinking, knife crime etc. ever will.

Did you ever see The Beatles wear shorts?
Did you ever see Isambard Kingdom Brunel wear shorts?
Did you ever see the Sex Pistols wear shorts?
Stephen Hawking?
Churchill?

Thought not, I rest my case.