What!! They're so ugly! Why would anybody wear these? Those look like the type of shorts embarrassing dads wear.
Ironic clothing costs way more. Clearly you're not from Williamsburg.
"Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money" (
Billy Joel)
I honestly wonder if "jorts" have been so villified for so long simply because they last longer than other types of shorts? If you keep wearing those plaid (or "madras") cotton shorts you bought a couple of years ago, they'll be worn out by the time the fad comes around again. But denim lasts longer and ages better, and of course a skilled sower can make them for "free" using jeans with worn out knees, etc. So the fashion world had to pile on extra hate to convince us all to trash our jean shorts, so they could then make money selling them to us all over again?