Shant wear shants

Remember the 86 Celtics? Many experts believe they might have been the best team to ever race the NBA's hardwood floors. DJ, Parish, McHale, Bird. They synched like a finely tuned machine, each cog doing its job perfectly.  They also wore the shorts that resemble speedos. There is probably room for a "loose ball foul" joke here as well, but i won't go there.

Somewhere along the line players' shorts morphed into culottes . 

 

 But I digress. My concern is not with extra long shorts like those worn by  Kevin Smith. My concern is that lately I have seen an overabundance of dudes wearing what appear to be Capri pants. Clamdiggers. This is not right. Whenever I see this phenomenon I shake my head. How did this happen? I imagine it was likely some guy, drunk, who somehow lost his pants and decided to try on his girlfriends' Capri pants. Instant trend. 

 I understand why heavy set dudes would wanna wear something akin to a muumuu for comfort and snack storage or perhaps to hold their special dialing wand. But capri's? It just seems ...well...off.

It's amusing and often hilarious to see men in tutus or in curlers and pink bathrobes. Mostly because it's absurd. Think about Monty Python or Kids in the Hall.  Men pretending to be ladies is funny because, for the most part, we have no idea how to do it. We are hairy, sinewy smelly beasts without a hint of femininity.  

And women pretending to be men is hilarious too.  Amy Poehler used to play an awesome man on SNL...oh wait, that was supposed to be Hillary Clinton. Nevermind.





But this is a case of gents in clothes designed for ladies with no hint of irony or that they're worn for humorous effect. In any case, I'm not sure how this caught on. Some would say its the feminization of our culture, the blurring of lines between male and female. Maybe. Perhaps men needed to have something to wear between cargo shorts and and pants that made your calves look awesome in heels. Whatever the reason, I don't like it. I'm slowly becoming my grandfather.