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Late-Night Trend Alert: The Boys Are Showing Leg
Just a little!
See, while watching late-night TV over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed that my boys are starting to show some skin in a place you might least expect: their mid-calf. Jeremy Kirkland, host of the popular menswear podcast Blamo!, tells me this trend is due to the “shorter and shorter length most men wear their trousers these days.” (You know he’s legit because he calls them “trousers.”) He then sent me a bunch of photos of celebrities on late-night talk shows in the past wearing longer trousers and socks. But that reminded me of fashion trends from even further back in time: In the Victorian era, women dressed so conservatively that the hottest thing in the world was a peek of the ankle.
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