“I like big butts and I can not lie,
You other brothers can’t deny,
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist,
And a round thing in your face,
You get —”
(“Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix A Lot)
Alright, ladies. Let’s talk high-waisted shorts.
No offense to you wonderful males out there, but most boys are simpleminded when it comes to fashion. They don’t care what newest fashion you wear; what they care about is if you look good in it or not. Let’s be honest, they don’t care about the clothes because it’s what’s beneath them that matters.
However, I consistently hear complaints about high-waisted shorts from guys. The problem is that not everyone can pull off the style of high-waisted shorts. I’ve come to find that the tinier a woman’s waist is, the better she looks in style. The shorts must cinch the smallest part of your waist. If you’re like me and don’t have that insane coke-bottle figure, the shorts tend to make you look like Spongebob …
Having a set of rectangular hips is not exactly ideal.
The shorts have another less-than-attractive trait when they don’t fit a person correctly — the Pancake Butt.
Pancake Butt plagues most girls that attempt to wear high-waisted shorts, and is also the biggest complaint that guys seem to focus on when it comes to this trend. Unless your cheeks are hanging out of the bottom (which I don’t advise), your butt can completely disappear. It’s an awful magic trick; we don’t do squats for nothing!
Although high-waisted shorts get a lot of heat, some women can really pull them off. The trick is to figure out what styles look good on your individual body instead of blindly following the newest trend. So don’t force yourself to wear something that doesn’t compliment your body. In the end, high-waisted shorts are just a passing trend that will be coming to a halt very soon.
Who knows? They might just be replaced with all those patterned overalls I’ve been seeing in stores lately...
