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Friday, August 01, 2008


Any longtime reader to Althouse's screed against men in shorts knows how dopey we look. Leave it to The New York Times to really take this premise and run with it. Those dudes make me want to punch them in the throat.
FIRST came Casual Fridays, that dread episode in the history of fashion, with their invitation for men to trade in suits for Dockers and to swap a proper shirt and tie for an open neck and a daring flash of masculine décolletage.

Then the bare ankle migrated from country-club Saturdays to meeting-room Mondays and suddenly men, whether shod in wingtips or loafers, were widely seen without socks. Now it appears that, after some stops and starts in recent seasons, the men of the white collar work force are marching into the office in shorts.
No thanks. I know Althouse like to make fun of sloppily dressed guys in shorts in Wisconsin, but in Texas where it's 90º+ six months of the year, you might have a better case for it. You still look like a dope, though.



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