Short shorts and hot pants are gaining renewed popularity, with celebrities and social media users praising barely-there inseams. The trend is framed as a return from earlier decades’ longer styles, including below-the-knee and looser board shorts, back to upper-thigh silhouettes. Commentary connects the look to pin-up and 1970s hot pants, while also emphasizing queer appeal and identity. The resurgence is celebrated as empowering for “girlies, gays & theys,” and as a shift away from judging masculinity itself. Online reactions include pride in wearing very short inseams, excitement about “Hot-DILF-summer,” and enthusiasm for any style that shows more skin.
"“Short shorts, right from the pin-up days to the ‘hot pants’ of the 1970s, have come a long way and in fact, right back to where we started: a.k.a. the upper thigh. ... After the extremely low-hanging, loose silhouette of ‘board shorts’ in the 90s to the 2010s, we have finally returned to hot pants. We are once again falling in love with the himbos, realizing that the real problem was never ‘masculinity’ but rather ‘toxic’ masculinity.”"
"“I have been proudly wearing inappropriately short shorts since 2015, and I'm glad everyone else is getting on board, 5” and 7” inseam shorts are the best!”"
"“Hot-DILF-summer has officially started. I'm seeing short shorts on all kinds of dads and am very here for it.”"
"“Anything that shows more skin is a plus.”"
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