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Bums hanging out of the bottom of teeny tiny shorts

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Noodleschicken · 28/06/2026 20:42

Don’t know if this really AIBU or a question!
AIBU to think that shorts have become way too short ?
I have seen a LOT of girls in shorts today - with their bum cheeks hanging out the bottom ! Personally I wouldn’t let my daughter out like that. And I wouldn’t were them myself (I would give everyone nightmares !).
so what’s the consensus on bums hanging out of shorts ?

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MeganM3 · 28/06/2026 20:49

It’s hardly a new thing is it. Very popular year in year out for over a decade!

AImportantMermaid · 28/06/2026 20:49

Arses are all the rage at the moment. Have you seen butt munch shorts? To me they just look like thrush Petri dishes.

Splashduck · 28/06/2026 20:49

Not my style as I feel my arse should remain out of public view - but each to their own!

oviraptor21 · 28/06/2026 20:49

PancakeCloud · 28/06/2026 20:43

If you don’t like it, don’t look.

The usual fatuous answer.

Ilovegolf · 28/06/2026 20:49

Awful. And no I have never worn shorts with my arse hung out, even as a teenager.
But, people can wear what they want, and that is a hill I will die on!

ExtraOnions · 28/06/2026 20:48

Good for them, if only I had the body and the youth.

Young women have been pushing these kind of boundaries since Mary Quant gave us the miniskirt

SunnySunnyDayz · 28/06/2026 20:46

Agree entirely, it is fashion but I sometimes think fashion has been infiltrated by the manosphere.

Women should be able to wear what they want but WHY do they want to dress like this?

Pedallleur · 28/06/2026 20:46

saveforthat · 28/06/2026 20:44

Hard agree. There were a few girls in our town centre yesterday with those shorts on. How can anyone think they look attractive?

Oh they do but probably not the sort of people you want looking at young women. My daughter was in Harrogate recently and said a woman was walking down the street in a thong bikini!!!

BravasPatatas · 28/06/2026 20:46

I wore shorts like this 25 years ago. It’s not a new thing.

Nofeckingway · 28/06/2026 20:45

I don't like it , I wouldn't wear it but it is not my place to judge anyone else.

Lemonfrost · 28/06/2026 20:45

PancakeCloud · 28/06/2026 20:43

If you don’t like it, don’t look.

The whole point of these shorts is to get people to look.

mynameiscalypso · 28/06/2026 20:45

I don’t think I’d want my naked bum cheeks sitting on dirty tube seats.

TinyTempest · 28/06/2026 20:45

Bums have been hanging out of shorts since the late 1980s.

Daisy Dukes anyone?

saveforthat · 28/06/2026 20:44

Hard agree. There were a few girls in our town centre yesterday with those shorts on. How can anyone think they look attractive?

MrsTerryPratchett · 28/06/2026 20:44

I hate it. But I also think women should wear what they like. But I also think it’s for the male gaze. But I also… what can you do?

Octavia64 · 28/06/2026 20:43

It’s the fashion,

I’m on holiday in Switzerland and it’s here too

PancakeCloud · 28/06/2026 20:43

If you don’t like it, don’t look.

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