A Year to Change: Conversations with women on choice, connections, and clarity in midlife

“Who wears short shorts?” Remember that pop song?

I know that I don’t wear them anymore. And except during rare and fleeting periods in my life, I couldn’t/shouldn’t/wouldn’t have worn them. And I don’t think that I’ll be wearing them anymore because they just don’t seem right; they make me feel inappropriately exposed.

Is this an mid-life modesty that I eschewed in other decades? Or is it an acceptance that short shorts are wrong for my body-type? Has my self-perception changed so that there are now some clothes that are simply “too young” for me?

Do you wear short shorts?