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love those short shorts!


This film should be called "The Incredibly Sexy Legs Movie"!

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Does anyone else think the shorts are way too short? This is supposedly 1935 in the US. I just don't think that particular style was an option then (maybe in Germany!) Wouldn't the casual warm-weather choice be knickerbockers worn without the stockings?

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I found it hilarious. I can't imagine how much teasing they'd get if they wore those in this day and age. It just goes to show how much fashion influences things, and how arbitrary it all is.

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I seem to remember shorts like that being de rigueur in the 70's, particularly if you were 'sporty' (and there are some pretty embarrassing shots of Noah Hathaway from the 80's wearing something similar.) I think I might have even worn the 'roller disco shorts'. Was this in style in the period of the film? I asked my mother - alive during that time - but she couldn't remember.

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It's been a while since I saw the movie, so I'm a bit vague on the costumes. I do remember in the novel that there was a reference to Niles's shorts being rolled at the leg, so I always assumed that he was wearing a somewhat longer style in acutality.

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Not really.

During the sixties and the seventies I wore short shorts lots of times.

I particularly liked wearing gym shorts - they made a good substitute swimming trunks.

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I thought they were his swim trunks, he had said earlier he was going for a swim. He probably put a shirt on but left his trunks on. His grandmother told him to get dressed but then he ended up coming with her to the old neighbor's house.
They're definitely not shorts.

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They are very short compared to today. But I imagine it was normal to wear shorts like that back then.

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Strange comment considering the shorts in question are being wore by young boys.

Fucking weirdo.

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