{"id":670,"date":"2008-07-03T06:24:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/07\/gddamn-its-devil-hot\/"},"modified":"2008-07-02T21:32:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T04:32:21","slug":"gddamn-its-devil-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/03\/gddamn-its-devil-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"G*ddamn It’s Devil Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the NY Observer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Yikes! Manhattan Men Bare Hairy Knees, Plump Calves<\/a><\/h2>\n

By Joe Pompeo\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

On a sweltering afternoon early last month, Adam Newman, a 25-year-old Park Slope comedian who works for CollegeHumor.com, made a life-changing decision: He took scissors to a pair of brown corduroy pants and fashioned them into shorts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s getting hot and I\u2019ve made up my mind. This summer, I\u2019m wearing shorts!\u201d Mr. Newman blogged recently. \u201cI\u2019ve always been an exclusively-pants guy, but I\u2019m ready for change. No more sweating under the jeans at the park, I\u2019m letting it breathe this year!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr. Newman is not alone. A growing number of style-conscious men are becoming more comfortable with the idea of showing some leg during the hot summer months. No longer does it seem remarkable to see men\u2014straight men\u2014dressed in slim-fitting shorts that hang well above the knee, from conservatively dressed 9-to-5 Manhattan types, to Williamsburg hipsters who wear their cutoffs so high, it evokes the lyrics to the 1993 R&B hit \u201cDazzey Duks\u201d (or\u00a0The Dukes of Hazzard<\/em>, depending on one\u2019s age).\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/a>Famous fellas are flashing their thighs.\u00a0Gossip Girl<\/em>\u00a0star Ed Westwick was photographed recently in a dark blue nautical pair of short-shorts; indie rock sensation\u00a0Devendra Banhart has been spotted in bright, retro-\u201970s athletic shorts; and professional hockey player turned\u00a0Vogue<\/em>\u00a0intern Sean Avery has donned a plaid gray shorts-suit by Astor & Black for the office.<\/p>\n

Mr. Avery\u2019s building mate,\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/em>\u00a0editor Graydon Carter (who famously hates the word \u201cdonned\u201d), was on the forefront of the shorts revolution. \u201cI used to wear them on hot days atSpy<\/em>, where our air conditioning was primitive,\u201d he wrote in an e-mail, though he noted that he rarely wears shorts to his current job. \u201cCond\u00e9 Nast is quite generous with its air conditioning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at observer.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the NY Observer Yikes! Manhattan Men Bare Hairy Knees, Plump Calves By Joe Pompeo\u00a0 On a sweltering afternoon early last month, Adam Newman, a 25-year-old Park Slope comedian who works for CollegeHumor.com, made a life-changing decision: He took scissors to a pair of brown corduroy pants and fashioned them into shorts. \u201cIt\u2019s getting hot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}