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Decades ago basketball players academic and professional wore short shorts. Nowadays they wear baggy shorts over bicycle shorts. Why?
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∙ 7y ago
Fashion doesn't need a reason other than someone thinking "hey, this looks cool".
As to why THAT happens, well, you might as well ask why some people prefer a certain color, a certain soda or a certain whatever.
They were part of the whole shift in society from men wearing the tight fitted clothes to wearing long/baggy clothes. Blame hip/hop, blame fashion, blame it on Michael Jordan pulling his down, blame expanding waistlines in baby boomers, blame it on whatever you want, but the case is that in the 1980's and before, athletic shorts were SHORT! Look at ANY Basketball game from before 1990, and you will see that the guys were all wearing "short-shorts". I even saw these short-shorts here in the Midwest as far late as 1994. After that, they seemed to vanish. There was a trend in the late 80's for the Bermuda knee-length shorts to become the norm, and now I've noticed a trend 20 years later for the shorter shorts. Look at the new Jack in the box smoothie commercial. Yes, they are trying to be funny, but that jogger is wearing short-shorts!
We will see them come back eventually. It may be another 10 years before they fully catch on like they were pre-1990, but mark my words, they WILL come back.
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