Spring And Summer Shorts

How To Wear Shorts (And Not Feel Like A Camper)

Posted by: Annika Harris Filed in: style, galleries
8:30AM, Friday April 17th 2009

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How To Wear Shorts

Extended Tab Cuff Short, $38, Arden B.

We don’t usually wear shorts, even when it gets to be 90 degrees and hotter, because we’re afraid they’ll ride up our bums and create that awful V-shape we’ve seen campers unknowingly sport. But we don’t want to live in fear any longer. This year we’re going to challenge ourselves to wear shorts. Our first step is to find a great pair that will get our fashion juices flowing. Click through for three shorts outfits we’re going to try out once it warms up.

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comments

lalaland
wrote on April 17 2009 @ 08:54 am: [report]

Totally obsessed with those Espadrilles!! Going home and buying those tonight!

joyy
wrote on April 17 2009 @ 09:13 am: [report]

Isn’t the key to shorts not riding up and giving you the ‘v’ finding ones that have an inseam longer than like, half an inch? I refuse to wear supershort shorts, and finding shorts that a) have a decent inseam on them and b) look halfway decent is quite the challenge, which is why I own so few pairs.

Also, if your idea of campers is people whose shorts are perpetually riding up on them… may I ask where you actually go camping? I’m not sure where you’re going that this is your view of campers, but it sounds WAY more like a tourist thing than a camper thing to me. I’m not really one for fashion, but I live in a tourist destination mountain town and the tourists ALWAY look totally ridiculous - way worse than anyone I know (even the scruffy boys) when we’re actually out camping.

My fave campin outfit is a short little tennis skirt and a bikini top and chacos for when we’re boating, or if we’re out hiking it’s ALWAYS pants so that you don’t get your legs all scraped up in addition to funky hiking boot-level tan lines.