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“We've seen a large rise in consumers cutting and splicing full-length jeans to get the perfect pair of shorts,” Francesca Sieler, the marketing director at Beyond Retro, told The Guardian last year. “What would have been an unwanted piece has now got a new life and look that is personalized for the consumer.”
1960s. The counterculture movement in the 1960s brought about the rise of jean shorts. Prior to this, wearing shorts in public was considered a grave impropriety, with some cities going so far as to ban them outright.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(xvjFZv3SEvfUwPAPhIfqoAg__117,
The term jorts, defined simply as denim shorts, was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013.
In the 70's the Daisy Duke denim short became popular because of the famous family TV show – the Dukes of Hazzard, where actress Catherin Bach playing the character Daisy Duke wore a pair of jean shorts every episode.
LOOSE DENIM. Style Notes: Denim shorts are a summer mainstay but, in place of the small,. fitted cut-offs many of us already own, fashion people have started to favour longer, looser styles. Arket's pair is proving to be a firm favourite, but there are plenty of other options at different price points, too.