Short getting shorter – Vintage Denim Culture

The first time I actually saw a girl wearing a denim short was on the movie “Point break”. It was during this famous scene where the girl come back from a surf session and toasted a cut off jean on showing off her toned legs in this tiny denim shorts. At this time, I thought it was the sexiest thing I have ever saw.  She shimmied her jean shorts up her wet and sand covered legs, tossed her bikini on the floor of her MG and rushed off to work. e30fdbfca4d7c3265f3ee879db1c5b28Wearing a jean short inspired me for being free, wild and tough! It was only long after that I finally got my first one. It didn’t do the same effect on me but hey!, big, thin, tan or pale skin it always make you feel pretty free, grunge and trendy. Sometimes this short got bad review. You can hear on a funday sunday loud slutty chicks with mini short tumbling around. In that scenario there is two reactions from men either they think the blond b*** girl is actually pretty sexy and attractive, the other half are offended and think those girls don’t have any father to smack them before they leave the house for wearing such a small piece of fabric to cover themselves. bc892043584aec8fb07ccf357538019cYe!s we see pretty much everything, yes a bit provocative but guys let us feel free and sexy for a second and it is anyway the follow-up of a trend.  Denim shorts became popular in the late 1960’s when fashion, style  and art all began to take on a new life of its own. People were fed up with war and politics as usual, the counterculture movement began to take full swing and people began to find ways to express themselves through their style and resource fashion.

Into the 80’s denim shorts became a fashion icon that was a must have for almost every wardrobe. It wasn’t long before men began wearing cutoff denim shorts as well, some as short as the girls cuts but some were longer.

In the 1990’s the denim shorts took on a new look during the end of the heavy metal era and beginning of the grunge scene. It was no longer popular to wear the short-shorts like the Daisy Dukes, but one could wear longer shorts, almost knee-length and either role them up or worn them torn.

Brigitte Bardot & Jane Birki
Brigitte Bardot & Jane Birkin

At the turn of the millennium denim shorts took a short hiatus from the fashion scene, but not for long, in 2005 they slowly started to make their way back into hipster and fashion forward girls wardrobes.

So don’t bother anymore with an old jean you don’t wear anymore take a pair of scissor and make your customized cut off jean or if you don’t feel do confident doing that go to any second-hand shop, vintage shop. Here in San Diego go to Salvation Army, Thrift trader, Buffalo exchange.

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