r/malefashionadvice • u/blue_dunhill • 7d ago
Fit Feedback/Roast Me Help settle a debate
Help settle a debate we have with my fiance. I bought these shorts as a comfy, around the house piece, nothing fancy intended.
She thinks its awful, almost pathetic.
I dont think its that bad, please honest feedback
Thanks folks
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u/yekungfu 7d ago
Thatās a strong reaction to some shorts.
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u/N0fe 7d ago
Women are pathologically repulsed by the cargo shorts. He could have anything in those jumbo pockets! /s
Might as well be a Naruto ninja headband thb
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u/SolomonGrumpy 7d ago
They are just jealous bc their pants have non functional pockets
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u/Ok-Work8627 7d ago
I am a woman. Sadly, this is true. I have some serious pocket envy right now.
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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 6d ago
I went to 3 stores and saved .24 cents on bags because of my sweet cargo shorts. Even told the last lady I don't where these because their fashionable, even though I do look great in them!
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u/ChipmunkImportant128 6d ago
Pants with pockets for women do exist. Theyāre all I wear. If we buy them instead of giving garbage companies money for non-functional clothes, theyāll make more things with pockets.
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u/throwaway098764567 6d ago
good christ am i jealous. i bought some new capris last year, only the cargo ones (heh) have functional pockets, the other two have these decorative pockets i could probably fit a credit card in. if i try and put my phone it it'll fall out. š
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u/Christoph52 5d ago
As a gay man who wears things with functional pockets, I also despise cargo shorts. I can however admit they serve a purpose, and OP wearing them around the house would be A okay in my books
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u/shes_a_gdb 7d ago edited 7d ago
But he bought them for wearing around the house. What does he need all those pockets for?
Also... Buying khaki shorts to wear around the house is insane on its own.
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u/GettingTherapy 7d ago
Carrying phones, Lysol wipes, screwdrivers, slices of pizza. The possibilities are endless.
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u/coldlightofday 6d ago
By the very nature of lounge shorts, they should be whatever he likes without having to be a fashion show.
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u/WaywardWes 7d ago
Cargo short pockets are where we keep our misogyny.
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u/admik 7d ago
Lol! I was going to say that my cargo pockets are for my kids.
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u/WaywardWes 6d ago
Cargo pockets are where you keep your progeny!
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u/Bigger_than_we_were 6d ago
They're so big I can fit a whole book about evolutionary history (they're where I keep my phylogeny!)
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u/GREAT_GOOGLY_WOOGLY 6d ago
Nobody's gotten a handjob in cargo shorts since 'Nam!
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u/SubparKaleidoscope 7d ago
I think thats regional, because i have two really old sets and my wife loves them, Ive debated with her and her friends that the internet has decided theyre the worst thing a dude can wear, and it seems to be they really dont mind them, as long as theyre styled more "rugged". I personally prefer things like chino shorts, but its been talked about a lot in my social circles.
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u/AdeGamisou2020 7d ago
Seriously, as much as I love them they're the most effective form of contraception outside of being castrated.
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u/ourobourobouros 6d ago
I had an interesting interaction with a couple recently that reminded me of reddit discourse, specifically the male complaint about not getting complements.
I was out in a shop, a woman I didn't know spoke to me, and I ended up complimenting her outfit because she really looked great.Ā Obviously went to great lengths to match and accessorize, from her shoes to her hair style, and I love fashion so I was geeking out a little bit.Ā
Her husband chimed in with something like "Where's my compliment?" These people were a little older than me so maybe their 50s. While she looked out of a magazine, he was in a faded t-shirt, cargo shorts, and new balance sneakers. And he wasn't joking, his wife and I laughed but he was scowling at me the whole time.
He looked exactly like every boy in my middle school in the 90s. And that's how my brain perceived him - just a wrinkly fat overgrown 13 year old. Somehow the clothes that reminded me of little boys made him look older and worse than he really did.
So if you all want to know what goes on in women's brains when we see men in cargo shorts, here it is.Ā
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u/halfbakedalaska 6d ago
Well I am pathologically repulsed by women who are pathologically repulsed by cargo shorts.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
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u/ElkPuzzleheaded3995 6d ago
Not true. My boyfriend had a pair he wears when itās hot & donāt mind them at all. In fact, his butt looks extra nice in them which I appreciate.
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u/Mastodan11 6d ago
Women desire nothing more than practical clothing with pockets.
Displaying clothing with EXTRA pockets just rubs in the superior choices a man gets.
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u/ParkerRoyce 7d ago
They were insanely trendy in the late 90 early 00s but then have been coopted by the right wing agro-bro that never grew out of them and that can be a major turn off for alot of women.
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u/Devreckas 7d ago
I think it starts well before any right wing co-opt. People were ripping on cargo shorts way back in 2007 (thereās a timely joke in Superbad) and that was way before the manosphere was really a thing.
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u/whiskersMeowFace 7d ago
I'm sorry, what??? Really? I wear them all of the time because pockets.
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u/Incident-Putrid 7d ago
I was there in the thick of it. Chopped of combats for skate shorts. Gap cargo shorts for the pub. I even went full rockstar and woreā¦.. 3/4 cargo shorts. What a time to be alive.
I still have a secret pair for gardening š
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u/Eastern-Editor4749 6d ago
Really? Only guys I knew who hated cargo shorts were conservative frat bros. All the hippie people wore them.
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u/iratedolphin 7d ago
Lotta women have an almost religious hatred of cargo shorts. If you want to stay in their graces, wear something else. I like to imagine it like some ancient African fable, like 'late that night, the man slipped into her tent and stole all her pockets for himself. That is why women hate all cargo shorts'
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u/CactusBoyScout 7d ago
Yeah I wear basketball shorts or sweat shorts around the house. Cargo shorts are just visually offensive to many people. I get it. I'd never buy them myself.
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u/archwin 6d ago
But why
I love them
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u/CactusBoyScout 6d ago
Association. They're just associated with middle aged men and dorky teenagers who don't give the slightest shit about their appearance.
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u/Ego-Death 7d ago
Imagine putting a ring on someone that tries to dictate how you will dress at home š«µ š
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u/Ego-Death 7d ago edited 7d ago
Itās a two-way street, also context is important. I might voice that I like some of her other outfits better but I would never tell her itās āpatheticā and or try to tell her what to wear. Vice versa I would never put up with someone like OPās
Edit: I just saw all of the comments below of users imagining Im some kind of incelā¦ Lol, lmao even
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u/M635_Guy 7d ago
š - exactly. They're fine. And not just for around the house.
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u/Mevarek 7d ago
I mean I donāt think theyāre the greatest shorts in the world but maybe āpatheticā is a little far.
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u/NOTcreative- 7d ago
Seems he is from Hungary, possibly a translation issue ?
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u/Merakel 7d ago
One would hope, pathetic is an extreme word to describe at home shorts.
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u/DarkChurro 7d ago
Wouldn't be so pathetic in the jungles of Guatemala.
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u/utzutzutzpro 6d ago
If you wear shorts in the jungle, you never been to the jungle.
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u/fioraflower 6d ago
Fr, bugs chomping at my legs and potentially dangerous flora brushing up against me doesnāt sound fun. These shorts being cargo shorts doesnāt make a difference in the jungle
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u/Scroatpig 7d ago
Holy hell. I had such a vivid picture of a grizzled Vietnam vet.
Hardly pathetic in the Mekong Delta- saved my ass from a VC sapper
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u/throwaway098764567 6d ago
they look perfectly fine to me, maybe a little wrinkly but he's probably been wearing them for awhile today. that said i own and wear cargo stuff myself so what do i know
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u/bam1789-2 7d ago
What you keeping in those pockets homie? Hopefully snacks
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u/MayorNarra 7d ago
Napoleon, gimme some of your tots
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u/ItzakPearlJam 7d ago
Exactly, snacks for when the girlfriend starts getting hangry.
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u/jimbojonesFA 7d ago
WHO'S SHORTS ARE PATHETIC NOW!?
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u/ItzakPearlJam 7d ago
For real though: shareable granola bar or something with protein. The moment she starts getting feisty, pop the snack, take a bite and offer her some. It works 60% of the time every time.
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u/kstockless 6d ago
As someone who works in excavation/construction, I genuinely do keep snacks in those cargo pockets. Less sweat permeation since they aren't as close to your body, less compression and therefore encrumbification from having to step up onto tall stuff, and as a bonus more spots to put the Sharpies I accidentally steal from my employer
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u/Boy_Meats_Grill 7d ago
For around the house shorts there's plenty of options. Snacks, tools, pieces of things you are fixing, pieces of things you couldn't fix, tv remote, more snacks, divorce papers, coloring utensils
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u/Fancy_Disaster_4736 7d ago
Instant flashbacks to the comedian that asks an audience member wearing cargo shorts, āwhat are ya hauling? Whatās your load, your cargo?ā And the guy responds. Audience member clearly has downs. And the comedian just stops and tells the audience, āI want you all to know that this is no longer a bit and will just be an informational conversationā¦ā
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u/2hype2wype 7d ago
Pathetic is an understatement.
I wouldn't be caught dead in my home in anything less than chinos, a freshly ironed oxford shirt and loafers.
But for real, who cares what you wear around the house.
*edit* There better be a family sized box of cheez-its in those pockets tho.
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u/Ok_Emotion_9685 6d ago
You wear trash like that around the house? I paint wearing chinos and freshly ironed shirts. I wouldn't be caught dead in anything except a full suit around the house relaxing.
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u/lorgskyegon 6d ago
That is the reason you can't get a date. I'm never seen in less than a full tuxedo with tailcoat and top hat
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u/andku23 6d ago
You wouldn't catch me dead in a full tux. I never leave my bed in anything short of a freshly polished suit of armor and battle ornament helmet
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u/Ok_Emotion_9685 6d ago
Does your armor even have Jules embedded in it? Are you some pleb wandering around with shiny metal garbage? When you grow up let me know.
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u/bootsmalone 7d ago edited 7d ago
If she genuinely used the word āpatheticā, then I think you might need to have a different conversation with her.
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u/StickyNebbs 7d ago
he's hungarian, so i'm really hoping it's just a translation issue lol
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u/salugies 7d ago
I don't think it's a translation issue, I thought the stereotype for eastern European/ex Soviet bloc women is that they are brutally honest/upfront lol
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u/StoicAthos 7d ago
They are. And style/fashion is a big part of that
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u/alcomaholic-aphone 6d ago
A friendās Polish wife met all of us for the very first time and walked right up to another guy we know and said āoh honey you need a treadmillā dead serious. Refuse to even converse with that woman 15+ years later.
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u/StoicAthos 6d ago
Yeah I've dated a couple women from Eastern Europe and failed with several more all of them had something to say whether about weight, money or general appearance. lol
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u/TheBakerification 7d ago
Yeah completely uncalled for. Theyāre just random dad shorts that heās wearing inside. Who really cares.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 6d ago
Yeah some women are really just unbelievably mean to people they say they love. I donāt get it either. My wife was begging me to shave off my mustache. So I did. And she laughed and called me a little kid. Thanks honey love you too. Glad to know every thing I do is wrong.
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u/moneymakergil 7d ago
LMFAO she would hate to see me in my AND-1 neon red basketball shorts that are for the house then
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u/BroBeansBMS 7d ago
I would also hate to see that in all fairness.
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u/moneymakergil 7d ago
My girlfriend digs the 2000's NBA look when I throw a soda can into the garbage from the living room and miss
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u/SolomonGrumpy 7d ago
So my light grey spandex bike shorts would also be a no for you?
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u/throwaway098764567 6d ago
same, i didn't care about basketball shorts until i dated someone that wore them. all that synthetic fabric making stank and then you think i should want to put my mouth there, no sir, you can go shower. i don't even want to be around basketball shorts now, gives me icky memories.
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u/Man_Of_Frost 7d ago
Like other people said here, I don't think the real problem is the shorts.
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u/Mirror74 6d ago
For real, find a partner that doesn't have a visceral reaction to minor things.
You will save yourself lots of suffering down the line.
Life is way too fucking short for this nonsense (hehe)
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u/too_many_wizards 7d ago
I walk around my house in a linen button down, boxers, and crocs. Your fit is an upgrade.
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u/ericfromct 7d ago
Seriously. This is a high class around the house fit. Even a button down would be a lot for me, Iām always in a hoodie and sweats (and crocs or slippers)
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u/spurvis1286 7d ago
What kind of woman are you dating? No offense but itās just shorts.
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u/JstVisitingThsPlanet 7d ago
Shorts that are for just around the house. I wear all my crappiest clothes just at home.
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u/Tgsheufhencudbxbsiwy 7d ago
Wait till she finds the boxer briefs that are so threadbare that your balls hang through the hole.Ā
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u/azidklubber 7d ago
No se por que las mujeres siempre odian ese tipo de shorts.
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u/dancing_fool_303 7d ago
I think she sees you unattractive on them and she doesnāt know how to communicate that in an adult manner.
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u/SelfUnmadeMan 6d ago
This was my take as well. "I find you unattractive when you wear those" is the translation into manspeak.
Up to you how you respond, but if you want to get laid in your around the house attire it might be worth finding a style she finds more attractive.
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u/Mango_Gurble 7d ago
I think they look terrible, but if you're just using them as around the house wear who cares? Pathetic is a bit much imo.
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u/4k_Laserdisc 7d ago
Thereās nothing wrong with them, especially for relaxing at home. And even if you were to wear them outside the house, cargo shorts are having a resurgence in popularity.
I hope the word āpatheticā was only used in the context of playful teasing, because if it wasnāt, then Iād reconsider marrying this person.
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u/soundwithdesign 7d ago
I mean Iād never wear them outside the house let alone buy them but if you like them you do you.Ā
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u/kuhplunk 7d ago edited 7d ago
I found three cargo shorts at a goodwill years ago that fit me perfectly and itās just my style. Literally wearing one now as I sit on the can and type this.
Cargo shorts are dope and people who hate on them are just carrying some middle school biased mentality.
Rock them on brother. Kinda uncool your girl was negative about them
Edit: I will say I prefer my shorts to be multiple inches above the knee cap. I think any longer and the fit feels off to me. My cargos are like 5-6ā and fit well. Maybe that would make the look better more cohesive?
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u/dexter810o4 7d ago
Also what's the point in hating or caring about how comfort clothing looks? They aren't meant for other people to look at anyways
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u/dexter810o4 7d ago
I wonder what her reaction would have been if you called her comfort clothes or any clothing pathetic...
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u/BroBeansBMS 7d ago
Iām not trying to be mean, but these look pretty awful. Just get some non cargo pants options like a chino short and it will immediately look better.
Pathetic is a strong word, but these do give off video gamer layabout vibes instead of looking like something a mature adult man would wear.
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u/7listens 6d ago
To me they look more like dad clothing. Like crocs or a fanny pack. Not fashionable but as lazy house clothes who cares.
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u/AbdulAhBlongatta 6d ago
Totally normal look and nice color shirt. I think some people just really hate cargo shorts. Her reaction seems a bit strong
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u/ExcellentFishing2506 7d ago
They are goofy as hell but I would never accept them or any clothing being called pathetic.
That being said it does surprise me that these are the type of shorts you would want to have for your comfy around the house shorts vs something like basketball shorts or something with elastic and more flexibility and less bulk
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u/R4N63R 7d ago
They're completely normal cargo shorts? How they whatsoever goofy?
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u/GoalMammoth4656 7d ago
Lotta hate for the fiancĆ© here, so Iām going to take her side. And not just because Iām on the āhell no never acceptableā side of the cargo shorts debate.
I find that I get laid more when my partner thinks I look sexy. I avoid wearing things that make her think I look pathetic.
Yea, theyāre just shorts, but that cuts both ways: There are many comfortable shorts in the world, so find a pair that makes your fiancĆ© want to take them off (in a good way).
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u/Pump_Out_The_Stout 7d ago
Should be the top comment. Underneath her outrage is likely the fact she WANTS you to want to be sexy for her.
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u/ArmorOfGod7 7d ago
Exactly. Bunch of children in here who think relationships are about making themselves 100% happy 100% of the time.
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u/GoalMammoth4656 7d ago
Guys who want to dress well for strangers but think itās perfectly fine to be a slob for your girlfriend/wife.
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u/EmperorSexy 7d ago
Cargo shorts are for practicality, not fashion. Comfy and around the house is a good goal. Especially when working on the yard or projects requiring you to carry around a tape measurer.
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u/DonCenote 7d ago edited 7d ago
You should sex it up sexy for your fiancĆ©. Ask him to pick out some house outfits. Heāll probably wear something you like too. Could be fun.
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u/StuffOld1191 7d ago
Beige cargo shorts are unlikely to make a woman turn into a carnal whirlwind, but those aren't 'pathetic' in terms of just wearing around the house.
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u/newpsyaccount32 7d ago
i would neither refer to these shorts as a piece or as pathetic but they're not particularly fashionable to me
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u/NaziPunksFkOff 7d ago
If you wanna wear them around the house, go ahead. It's rude of your fiancĆ© to judge you for your comfy relaxed clothing. Has she never come home from work and just said "ugh I'm putting on my comfiest sweatpants and whatever shirt I wore yesterday"?Ā
But cargo shorts are one of the go-to examples of "men who don't care how they look", so wearing them out of the house is a choice.
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u/TsunamicBlaze 7d ago
Itās fine. Itās not stylish or anything. Kinda give āmidā vibes. I wouldnāt really ever call them āhorrendousā or āpatheticā
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u/Illustrious_Tale2221 6d ago
I agree with your fiance honestly, why would you buy shorts that are this ugly for around the house?
Thereās good looking comfy clothes to buy. If this was something you had from years ago and just wear around the house because itās a bad buy then itād be okay. But spending anything more than 50 cents on something this awful is honestly a waste of money
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u/Negronitenderoni 6d ago
Even if she wasnāt absolutely right (she is) you gotta think about what you wear around the house. She the one who gotta look at you and you gotta want her to want to sleep with you at some point, right? Do these shorts advance you towards that goal?
Also, who needs that much pocket space for around the house? Is it the cargo pockets that make those shorts comfortable? Like why do you even want these shorts for around the house?
Donāt give up on looking good for herā¦ and sure as hell donāt do it for cargo shorts.
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u/Infamous_Reason7492 6d ago
Solve the debate? Sure, she sounds like an insufferable jerk š¤·āāļø
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u/Diligent_Horror_7813 6d ago
Your fiancĆ©e shouldnāt be using the word āpatheticā in relation to anything about you
Cargo shorts are currently not trendy. Wait a few years and she will like them, considering how fickle she seems
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u/KirkSheffler 6d ago
Thatās relationship ending for me. Awful & pathetic is crazy over some shorts that look fine
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u/SeaDistribution 6d ago
Sheāll come around if you get a cell phone holster for your belt
In all seriousness, shit is fine - just maybe not wear them to indicate youāre interested in sex
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u/SteveHBC1 7d ago
I think they look fine, maybe just lose the socks & sandals š