Just when you thought Y2K fashion couldn’t get any more ludicrously unflattering – sheer dresses! Baby tees! Low-rise jeans! – along came jorts. Not to be confused with jogging shorts, as the portmanteau suggests, I’m talking about awkwardly long denim shorts. You know the ones. Longline, loose-fitting enough to create a breeze, skimming just above or below the knee – usually worn by supermodels (Gigi Hadid, Hailey Bieber), celebrities (Simone Ashley, Emily Ratajkowski), and intimidatingly cool Gen-Zers – jorts are officially summer’s hottest trend.
The trouble is that they’re hideous. OK, admittedly they look cool on tall, long-legged, famous women who’ve been professionally styled, blow-dried, and manicured. But that clientele could turn a bin bag into a viral trend. They aren’t exactly the best metric. Even though we all understand this trickery, jorts have been infiltrating runways, high street shops, and Instagram feeds everywhere in the run-up to sunnier climes, telling us all that these strange, skaterboy shorts will look good on us all.
