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"  Ed. note: Did you know you can watch full episodes of this online?!  To sort of quote Shakespeare: Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun and short shorts. That&amp;#039;s right, ladies, with the passing of Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer is here. In the Northeast, that means it&amp;#039;s also the totally official start to &amp;quot;shorts season.&amp;quot; And I&amp;#039;m happy to announce that this year is the summer of short shorts...for dudes.  As some of you may know, I&amp;#039;m a huge supporter of short shorts. My love of a five-inch inseam was born of need; we don&amp;#039;t have central air conditioning in our home, and window units are the worst. Un-air-conditioned Philadelphia in the summer feels like you&amp;#039;re living in a very wet sauna that&amp;#039;s never been cleaned, but has been used by about three million people. If you have to spend three months a year in a dirty sauna, you want to be as comfortable as possible, which means wearing the least amount of clothing. Enter the short shorts.  What started out as a garment of necessity soon blossomed into a love affair that would last a lifetime. Short shorts are freeing, easy, casual, and convenient. Put your husband in a pair of short shorts and ask him if he doesn&amp;#039;t feel 10 pounds lighter and seven years younger. Short shorts make you want to play hacky sack, throw a Frisbee, or sit on the stoop and drink some weird fruity cocktail.  Look, I&amp;#039;m not talking about Daisy Dukes for dudes; I&amp;#039;m talking about a five-inch inseam. In the &amp;#039;70s and &amp;#039;80s, if your shorts had a five-inch inseam, they were still considered appropriate to wear to funerals. Look around and you&amp;#039;ll see short shorts popping up everywhere in pop culture: From Tobias F\u00FCnke on Arrested Developement to Electronic Dance Music festivals, and, uh, popular films such Avatar \u2014 they love short shorts in Avatar.  The question you&amp;#039;re definitely asking right now is, &amp;quot;Where can I get a pair of short shorts for my husband?&amp;quot; Well, I&amp;#039;m glad you asked because despite the surging tide of demand for male short shorts, retailers are woefully unprepared. J.Crew only has one pair with a five-inch inseam on their website. The Gap, none. Levis? To be honest, I don&amp;#039;t even know what&amp;#039;s going on over there; are they really trying to get me to wear a &amp;quot;skinny knee-length short?&amp;quot;  I&amp;#039;ve resorted to getting my shorts from some odd places. I have very specific requirements for them: 1. I want an elastic waist band for ease and comfort. 2. I want them to be short. The two places I&amp;#039;ve been scoring my shorts are very different. The first is a place called Chubbies Shorts. You have to muscle through the bro-heavy marketing campaign they&amp;#039;ve mounted \u2014 they appear to sell a lot of their shorts to guys who use &amp;quot;frat&amp;quot; as a verb \u2014 but the shorts are comfortable, easy, and short. All requirements fulfilled. These are cotton shorts with pockets and belt loops, although they still have elastic, so they look a little fancier than your typical, run-of-the-mill running short. &amp;quot;The Captain&amp;quot; by Chubbies The second place I&amp;#039;ve been getting my shorts is a company called JL Racing, which primarily designs clothing for athletic competition (they started as a clothing company for crew teams). I get the running shorts. I do use them for their intended purpose, but I also have fun and embarrass my kids in these shorts. These obviously are a &amp;quot;sportier&amp;quot; look, and yes, there is piping involved. The great thing about JL is that, because it&amp;#039;s a team outfitter, you can design your own shorts, and if you get them in bulk they get cheaper. Who doesn&amp;#039;t want 10 pairs of short running shorts that are bright yellow with orange piping?   So this Father&amp;#039;s Day, do what&amp;#039;s right for your family. Turn back the hands of time and help your husband get some vitamin D on his thighs before he gets rickets. It&amp;#039;s time to really enjoy the summer \u2014 and your dude in short shorts. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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