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I can remember, all too well, the late ’70s when I was in high school. In our small eastern Iowa community, the young men (including me) wore what amounted to a uniform: a cap of some sort, normally with the logo of some agricultural equipment manufacturer or automobile company, a black T-shirt with pocket (for smokes), blue jeans worn so long that they dragged on the ground behind your heels, and some kind of boots, usually black engineer boots or ropers. The fun part about all that was that if you looked at photos from the mid to late ’50s before the bizarre styles of the ’60s kicked in, you saw a very similar look on a lot of young men.
What goes around comes around, in clothing like anything else, and now we see something else making a comeback – short shorts. In the ’50s they were called short shorts, in the ’60s hot pants, in the ’70s Daisy Dukes, and now it seems they are “Micro shorts.” It seems some folks are perturbed about this, but honestly, it’s nothing new.
“Micro shorts” from Free People likely won’t be the latest style for the spring and summer, according to confused shoppers.
On March 1, the women’s clothing line posted a series of images of its micro shorts line on the Free People Instagram account.
“We are wearing micro shorts this season. Link in bio to shop the styles,” the post read.
Over the past month, several Instagram users piled on the post and the product, frequently mocking the absurd size and tightness of the short jeans.
Everyone is, of course, free to wear what they feel comfortable in, as well as what suits their environment. For example, it’s unlikely you’ll see many women wearing “micro shorts” here in the Great Land, where even mid-summer temperatures rarely break the 75-degree mark.