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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Priya Elan

Men’s fashion microtrend: patterned shorts

Patterned shorts help take the emphasis off bodies.
Patterned shorts can help when you need to bare some flesh. Photograph: Fernanda Calfat/Getty Images
Model in shorts during New York fashion week

With the advent of summer comes the realisation that you’re not actually a goth and you have to bare some flesh. Then comes a further realisation that, when compared with the steroid-fed lot on reality TV, your body does not match up to the modern man. You are not, simply put, Vin Diesel starring in a remake of The Incredible Hulk. Thank the god of hiding-in-the-shadows that, this season, patterned shorts are in. Good news for those of us who want to detract from leg SOS situations such as knobbly knees and weirdly hairless patches of shin.

Denim, £35 mango.com.
Denim, £35 mango.com.
Camo, £17.99, hm.com.
Camo, £17.99, hm.com.
Floral, £25 zara.com.
Floral, £25 zara.com.
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