1980’s crop tops and short shorts

Okay!

WE call it *shimmel*!

^ damm

Short shorts have been in for a while now.

Crop tops not so much.

R2, thank you!!!

Bring back treasure trails too. Admittedly, though, they’re making a slight comeback.

The more things change, the more they do not remain the same.

I'm all for this.

OP = Terry Bernadino

Classic

That looks like Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner in R6.

R12 That Is Caitlyn Jenner Pre-Transition in one of her movies

R12 but please dont refer to transgender beings by their former names

That’s Bruce Jenner r13, before he became Brucezilla

I Love Terry Bernadino

Not Brucezilla. Brucetta.

Yes to the short shorts. No to the crop tops.

Where are short shorts in? I never see them above the knee.

We wore crop tops in the 60s, why else would I dress like this?

R20 is that from Happy Days??

That’s Billy Warlock (Flip) from HAPPY DAYS.

Unfortunately this probably won't happen. Whether it is due to food additives, processed food, lack of exercise, today's teens and young adults don't have the thin, lithe bodies of yesteryear. Not including the IG gym bunnies, the typical male today is paunchy or soft around the middle by 16 (definitely by 21). Look at most of these type photos from the 50s-60s-70s and even adult men were still slender, expecting their paunch at 40.

R22 Always wanted to nail Billy.

Yup. Wore those.

Back in the 80's I had my way with a hot studly lad in short cut off jeans and a crop top I met in the park one Saturday. Ah, happy times.

R18, Why would you say no to the crop tops, then post someone wearing one?

I’m genuinely curious as to why you wouldn’t want crop tops to make a comeback.

I’d rather have crop tops back than short-shorts. I can see all I need to see no matter how far the leg on a pair of shorts goes down. It’s not the leg area I’m looking at.

r23 I dint believe that i believe everyone can wear a crop top and short shorts no matter what size they are. Every size is beautiful once we take off our society expectation glasses. I believe in body positivity!!!!

Fuck you fattie ^

R28 you want to try that in English?

Yes, please.

I absolutely love this! I love how they were able to transmit such masculinity back in the day! It would be considered effeminate these days, tho

Those were the days

[Quote] Why would you say no to the crop tops, then post someone wearing one? I’m genuinely curious as to why you wouldn’t want crop tops to make a comeback.

Because it looks ridiculous. It's bad enough they made a comeback in women's fashion. However I think you could get away with short shorts.....to an extent.

Can you imagine Luke Duke in Daisy Dukes? Bo yes, but not Luke.

Royal Teens singing their #3 hit song, "Short Shorts."

R32 How come is it slutty for women but only ridiculous for men?

We demand equality in the slut

There is nothing ridiculous about a sexy boy in a crop top and cut off jeans. Anyone who thinks it is ridiculous should be slapped repeatedly about the head and shoulders.

They're both gross.

I guess if you're behind a pane of glass in a red light district in Amsterdam, but otherwise.... no.

Sigh. To think at one time I could actually wear crop tops .And most certainly did !

Many of the football players in my high school in the 70s wore crop tops. The tops were cut so high the lower halves of their areolas would always be in view. I think it was a purposeful decision. Maybe to rankle the school administration. I certainly didn't mind.

Does anybody have a reliable retailer of both lovely short shorts and/or crop tops?

Economic, please?

[quote]Does anybody have a reliable retailer of both lovely short shorts and/or crop tops?

Can't you just get them at the same place you buy your caftans?

Little shorts never went anywhere, they just dipped in popularity for a time. In grade 11, 1997, I was in cross country running (to get out of playing soccer), and there was a guy who's wear those on group runs, I'd get behind him and focus on his perfect little ass as motivation to keep going. I would wear a jockstrap to hide the massive erection it gave me every time.

Crop tops only looked good on men who had washboard abs and 0% body fat. If a man didn't have a toned mid-section or was even just a handful of pounds overweight, he looked kind of gross in a crop top.

R36 lol I was waiting for someone to post that.

R43 Balderdash ! I never had washboard abs and I looked dammed good in a crop top. My smooth tan stomach had scads of men laying on it thanks to a crop top.

R42, excuse me, but world history did not begin with you. In 1997, you were in 11th grade? In the late 1970s and early 80s, I was a ballet dancer and I excited male libidos everywhere I went in my short shorts. They were popular for women in the 1950s. Men wore them even before that.

The short shorts did, indeed, go everywhere. It is you who have not yet been anywhere at all.

R34

No wonder they only had one hit

George Micheal singlehandedly killed short shorts, while popularizing beards, thus killing off the mustache

Back in the 70s and 80s, a lot of athletes wore short shorts while competing, basketball players and track and field athletes in particular.

Of course, they don't hold a candle to the spandex tights track and field competitors wear today. I love those short distance runners whose junk lumbers back and forth when they are running. I'm surprised they're not shy about it before a race. There are no doubts how well-endowed they are, you can even see the heads of their cocks pushed against the spandex.

One year until the Olympics!

Short shorts, died out by 1985. I recall I was looking to buy shorts that summer and all were down to knee length by that time.

I Love The Film Franchise “””” Sleepaway Camp “ The golden standard of showing guys in Shorts Shorts and Crop Tops, oh I Love the outfits in the movie they got them down!!!!

Good idea.

r52 So He’s still rocking!!!!

I still need to check out the the 3rd Sleepaway Camp movie.

I still haven’t gotten over the first one!

Did someone say...1984?

Steve Sanders wore one during the first summer season. I howl to this day every time I watch it.

Not quite short enough, but damn Steve Gutenberg was so hot.

I’m currently in works to produce that t-shirt but printed on the back, for the young’uns.

Come down under. Short shorts and crop tops are very much a thing among the metro gays.

R57 are you talking about this scene??

Yes, that's the one!

Who is Steve Guttenburg?

This is Steve Guttenberg.

Steve has a great set of tits but absolutely no ass whatsoever.

[Quote] Come down under. Short shorts and crop tops are very much a thing among the metro gays.

I need to get out more.

The football team at my high school did the same thing at practice, R39. They cut the shirts so their nipples would peek from below the cut line. Some of them wore short jeans shorts and kept the top button unbuttoned, so their zippers would go down the teeth and they'd show off the treasure trail and eventually some of their pubes.

I remember it because it was a powerful image at the time. I'm surprised the coach didn't put a stop to it. Maybe he felt it was hyper-masculine. Or maybe he was turned on...

Bradley Cooper

Be careful what you ask for.

On Roller skates?

I graduated from high school in '86. At the time I had fairly recently bought a pair of OP shorts that went to the knees and a pair of plaid shorts that were longer, but everything else was mid thigh or short shorts. By the time I graduated from college it had flipped, I had a couple pair of shorter shorts but the majority were to the knee. If you were working out - running - tennis etc - the athletic shorts were still shorter.

I do remember in high school, you did not go out in the evening in shorts - you put on a pair of jeans to go out to go to a movie - which was not always fun in the heat of the summer. That was one nice thing about the longer walking shorts, they had pockets and you wore them in place you did not wear the usually pocketless short shorts of the time. Plus they were still above the knee - not the really long shorts that were in style in the 90s.

Someone questioned that short shorts were back in style. I agree, that the shorts of the 70's early 80's are not back in style, and you still see a lot of short down to or even blow the knee, but I do see more young men wearing shorts that are a few inches above the knee -- more mid thigh.

Interesting story behind R46's pic. Apparently the male Hooters idea isn't so new.

Look at those thick beautiful legs at R75 ! Its so rare to see a nice pair of mens legs anymore,even the muscle mary's have chicken legs!