Thank God It’s Not Winter: The Return Of Short Shorts

Now that I’ve been mentally hanging out all morning with Terry Richardson, I can’t help but be influenced by sleazy thoughts that I’m not entirely uncomfortable with. I mean, it’s one thing to appreciate hot sexy things, but it’s another to be utterly compelled to build a life and a name around them. Nevertheless, I’m pleased as pie that summer is almost upon us and, times being what they are, short shorts are coming back. I know this because New York Magazine tells me so.

In this week’s column, The Find, Kendall Herbst directs her focus on that most scandalously wholesome of ladies’ outerwear, the garment that sold a million units of Nair back in the seventies. (If you’re over 30 you may remember the jingle, but you can revisit it at the Nair website if you’re interested in the memory lane thing.)

Herbst went on a field trip to eight different boutiques in search of the best in this season’s short shorts and documented her finds for posterior posterity. The one I’d most like to encounter strutting across Washington Square are the black Glamour Satin ones from Bebe, but I’m sure we all have our favorite, and we don’t even have to blame Terry Richardson for our illicit thoughts.

The Find: Short Shorts (nymag.com)