What do The Rock, Harry Styles and Milo Ventimiglia have in common? They have all been seen showing some thigh in short shorts
- The fashion press is full of reports of skimpy shorts, a trend that started during the pandemic
- A photo of US actor Milo Ventimiglia leaving the gym wearing short shorts recently went viral
This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia wouldn’t ordinarily be classed as a fashion trendsetter, but a viral photo of the 43-year-old actor leaving the gym in a pair of short shorts last month shook the internet and focused mainstream attention on the hottest and skimpiest trend in menswear.
Until very recently, shorts with an inside leg that was shorter than seven and nine inches (18cm and 23cm) were considered the preserve of the shameless and the socially unaware, a style neatly embodied by Steve Coogan’s comic character Alan Partridge.
But the likes of Ventimiglia, Dwayne Johnson, Normal People actor Paul Mescal and the more bankable fashion maven Harry Styles all showing more leg has got the fashion press abuzz, with many declaring summer 2021 as “Thigh Guy Summer,” where the rallying cry for confident men will be “sky’s out, thighs out.”
Ventimiglia broke his silence on his new-found viral fame last week, posting on Instagram a picture of a pair of shorts with the simple caption: “Ride ’em high kids.”
