It's not you, it's your shorts

I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “wear the damn shorts” - women throw this around when they’re fed up with worrying about how their legs look in shorts - dimpled and maybe with some accompanying knee sag (you can read about my personal love/hate relationship with my legs here).

I’ve been thinking about this as summer approaches and my clients are packing for vacation. Here’s my take: please actually don’t wear the damn shorts if they don’t look good on you. I’m retiring that phrase and replacing it with “wear the right shorts” or if the GLP-1’s kicked in, maybe the more apropos statement of the moment is, “try shorts, you might like them!”

It’s not you, it’s them.

Your legs aren’t the problem; it’s the shorts. Here’s our checklist:

Rise. A mid-to-high rise holds everything in place, and elongates your legs.

Length + hem. This is personal and we’ll get into it more in the p…

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