Bums hanging out of the bottom of teeny tiny shorts

[Noodleschicken]

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 ?

There’s a sign on my local supermarket door saying clothes must be worn no swimwear - apparently they have had issues this week, including a lady in just a “very skimpy” bikini hence the notice (I’ve been away through the hot spell)

I am 58. If I had a bum that looked good hanging out of teeny tiny shorts I would do it. Sadly if I did people would think I had a growth on the back of my knees.

If they have it let them flaunt it. Why, as women, do we feel it is okay to criticise other women!

Agree! Male or female, any shorter than Daisy Dukes wouldn't be a nice idea on seats.

I've seen 2 people in big knickers today, just like the old school PE knickers. One had it paired with a matching crop top, the other had it paired with a matching dress that split from the navel. I've not even come across these shopping but it must be some new fashion trend for me to see two in one day.

My daughter was in Harrogate recently and said a woman was walking down the street in a thong bikini!!!

In Harrogate??? 😱😱😱

I think its a terrible look, also sometimes dont I think tbey realise how terrible it looks from the back.
For those saying dont look, they walking in my eye line, im presuming they want people to look...

Are their genitals and arsehole covered? As long as the shorts are covering the area normal swimwear or knickers (full, high leg, bikini etc, not thong/string) would cover, then they aren't indecent.

It is a fashion choice i certainly wouldn't make myself, but a bit of lower/side bum cheek is hardly obscene, its not labia or bum crack/hole.

I saw a girl in Nando's wearing these, bum cheeks clearly visible. I've got knickers bigger than those shorts. She was only about 14/15. But thanks to mumsnet I see it's applauded that a young teenager walks around like that so men can gawp at her because she can wear what she wants and it's nobody's business 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's bloody awful but it's the fashion, what can you do? Like those up-the-bum leggings and thong bikinis, it's just TMI in clothing form.

The pendulum will swing back the way sooner or later and it will be polo necks and maxi skirts.

Same

If you think that they are short now you should have seen them in the 1970s

Having said that I was swimming recently and thong bikinis seem to be fashionable amongst the teens and twenties

I don't find it any worse than the mums on the school run in their sports lycra flashing their camel toes tbh

As humans, I feel its is very normal to have critical views about lots of things other humans do. I am equally judgemental of men. I don't want to see any arse cheeks when I am going about my day, male or female. I dont like short shorts, I don't like seeing men walking around days with no tops on on hot days either. Doesn't mean I want to ban dental floss bikinis but I don't appreciate seeing naked and semi naked buttocks when going about my business. I think its crass. Why are women immune to people being critical of their 'attire' ?

I don t want an eyeful of arse when i'm out n about

I think men walking around high streets/supermarkets/public transport etc with no top on is actually worse than butt cheeks.

This is what I don’t get. Why they were fine in the 1970s but why the women who were born in the 1970s only have an issue with girls wearing them today.

And I speak as a conservative dresser.

😂😂😂😂

I hate seeing young girls with their bums hanging out - why? I would never allow my daughter to have her bum exposed in public whats wrong with normal short shorts? Sorry it’s grotesque and unhygienic if they sit on public transport with their bare bum cheeks!

i saw a lot of this on young teenage girls at an event last weekend. It’s less that the bum cheeks are hanging out and more that the shorts are like Brazilian underwear, and are so far up their arse there is no material to cover their bums.

it’s come from tik tok. Ruffle trim shorts.

its not either that they are buying smaller shorts. They are fitting exactly how they are designed.

Its not liberating. Its purely for the male gaze.

There are a lot of young women down at the beach this past week wearing teeny thong bikinis, tight low slung leggings and shorts with bum cheeks on display.

In the 70s I wore hot pants and also wore crop tops too but your backside was well covered with material..

Personally, I think they reveal rather too much but do have a twinge of envy at the bum shape on a lot of them.

I dream of having a bum that looks that good as mine seems to have slipped out of sight as I've aged, I think it's halfway down my thighs. 😳

Fashion dictated by the male gaze innit? I mean - are men doing it?

They just look like short shorts though - lots of leg and no bum cheeks. The kind of shorts the OP is talking about are cut away like Brazilian knickers so they show half of people's buttocks.

I'm glad someone has mentioned this.
I cringe seeing women and young girls showing the shape of the most intimate part of their body in public, why would you want to do that??

What's the male equivalent of this, oh there isn't one. Funny that.

Earlier than that I reckon. I remember being embarrassed when my mum dug out some old shorts to wear on holiday (probably becuase she couldn't afford new) c. 1976.