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Who Wears Short Shorts?
We wear short shorts!note 

Hot pants, mini shorts, daisy dukes? Whatever you call them, it can be a great way to Show Some Leg without having to worry about a Panty Shot. This is mostly a female trope, but there have been a few males to slip in. This trope became popular in real life around the mid-1950s, and even though it has never been at the height of fashion, it's never really gone away either.

For added sexiness, combine with Zettai Ryouiki, She's Got Legs. If you don't want anyone seeing your legs, just add tights.


Examples:

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    Advertising 
  • Nair depilatory famously used the song (see Music below) as part of an ad campaign that ran from the late 1970s well into the 1980s.
  • Masculine example Played for Laughs: the L&P ''Stubbies'' advert shown in New Zealand. Also pokes fun at the The Seventies.
    • Stubbies are a brand of men's shorts popular in Australia and New Zealand in the 1970s, and was a common part of schoolboys' uniforms.

    Anime and Manga 
  • Pokémon: Misty's best known outfit includes very short jean-shorts.
    • And in later generations, yellow shorts of the same length.
  • Yoko from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
  • Kallen from Code Geass.
  • Revy from Black Lagoon. Permanently unbuttoned.
  • Lyrical Nanoha
  • Kanzaki Kaori of To Aru Majutsu no Index is an unusual example: she wears a pair of jeans... with one leg cut off. Goes really well with her tied-up white T-shirt.
    • It's supposed to be a disguised magic ritual.
  • The one-legged jeans are also part of Kisara Nanjou's style of choice in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple.
  • Envy of Fullmetal Alchemist. Hard to place as a male or female example.
  • Alois Trancy from the second season of the Black Butler anime frequently wears these, to the point that his "Booty Shorts" have pretty much reached memetic status.
  • Serena Tsukino from Sailor Moon (known as Usagi in the manga and Japanese version) wears an olive green-colored pair with one of her outfits, particularly in early episodes.
    • Also the Amazon Quartet's final disguise in Super S (known as Amazoness Quartet in the manga and Japanese version).
  • Sakura Kyouko from Puella Magi Madoka Magica wears cut-off jean shorts as part of her civilian outfit.
  • Mew Zakuro from Tokyo Mew Mew.
  • Anzu Mazaki/Tea Gardner from Yu-Gi-Oh! occasionally wore short shorts as part of her outfits, when she wasn't wearing a mini skirt.
    • Let's not forget Shizuka/Serenity during Season 3 and the second half of Season 2.
    • Mai Kujaku/Valentine from the same show normally wears a purple skirt with a white corset, but wore purple short-shorts and a black corset when she was temporarily Brainwashed by Dartz during the events of Season 4.
  • Speaking of Valentine, Faye's trademark yellow outfit in Cowboy Bebop probably counts.
  • Part of Haruhi Suzumiya's Unlimited Wardrobe. She wears cuffed jean shorts when the story wants to remind you she's the Tomboy to Mikuru's Girly Girl.
  • By the series Standards, Hana-chan from Ojamajo Doremi wears these. With cute little hearts on each side.
  • One Piece: Nami in the 10th movie, One Piece Strong World, wears a pair of super short jean shorts.
  • Ururu in Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo tends to wear short shorts, as opposed to dresses like her friends.
  • The titular Revolutionary Girl Utena.
  • Akasha Bloodriver from Rosario + Vampire is shown to wear this under her gown when she removes the latter right before her sacrificial attempt to go Medieval on Alucard's ass. Of Corsets Sexy also comes into play.
  • Mizuho Asano from Bleach is commonly seen in hot pink short-shorts.
  • Both Shiro and Anri from Adekan occasionally do this. As in, daisy duke shorts on a dude. Anri usually wears long pants, but the legs of them appear to be detachable which make them kind of creepy chaps-shorts.
  • In Vividred Operation, not only are the girls commonly seen wearing bloomers, but short shorts are part of the school uniform.
  • In the Dragon Ball Z filler scene of the Invisible Spaceship, Bulma is wearing short light purple shorts in addition to baring her midriff. This only applies to the original dub, however, as she is wearing underwear in the Japanese version and the redub which was changed as a means of censorship.
  • Heero Yuy from Gundam Wing. Being designed after a female model, it doesn't do much for his already diminishing masculinity. He switches to white full-length pants for the OAV sequel, however.

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    Film 
  • Alice in the first Resident Evil film, though the shorts are partly concealed by the red dress she's wearing.
  • Trillian the first time we see her in the main story, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
  • Kristofferson in Fantastic Mr. Fox wears short-shorts. Though it is most certainly not for sex appeal. At least we assume.
  • Worn by Candice during her fatal gymnastics practice session in Final Destination 5. Justified as most other gymnasts were wearing this as well during the same scene, including the gymnast that got Candice killed accidentally by sheer carelessness.
  • The title character of Tamara Drewe. As a disapproving older woman notes, "She poured herself into those shorts. She'll give herself thrush."
  • Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. They're skin-tight.
  • Half of the scenes featuring Steve Christy in the original Friday the 13th has him wearing shorts shorts, an ascot and not much else.
  • In The Master, many of the navy men in the beginning of the movie. They were very much out of uniform.
  • Pepper Potts in The Avengers, as well as being barefoot. Since she usually wears business suits and high heels, this shows how relaxed she's become around Tony since their relationship started.

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    Video Games 

    Webcomics 
  • Homestuck: In a rare male example, Jake seems to be associated with short shorts above and beyond any of the other characters - both of his alchemised outfits in Act 6 Act 4 feature them, and even earlier on when he was wearing much longer shorts he one point tried to wear Lara Croft-style gun holsters and thought to himself that he'd probably need to be wearing shorter shorts to pull them off. Not only that, but Jake's class is the Page, whose god tier outfit features memetically speedo-length shorts. At any rate, the fandom sure appreciates it all. Mostly.

    Web Original 
  • Homestar Runner's "creepy pants" are a pair of hot pink/purple shorts of the 'Daisy Duke' variety (an American form of shorts made by cutting the legs of snug jeans, sometimes so much so that the white pocket liners can be seen). It is later revealed that he was out of his mind on Strong Sad's anti-depressants at the time.
  • Part of Taylor-Ruth of Hanging Rock Comics fame's iconic outfit.
  • In the Whateley Universe, one of the many problems with the new costume of THE CRIMSON COMET!!!. Granted, she just got the superpowers and the curves a couple weeks ago and she hasn't gotten over it yet.
  • A character named Daisy_Duke appears in Shadow of Israphel wearing, you guessed it, daisy dukes.

    Western Animation 
  • On Family Guy, Peter once went through a Daisy Duke phase.
    Brian: It looks like a walrus flossing!
  • On Total Drama Island, Heather, Katie, and Sadie all wear very short shorts
  • Sym-Bionic Titan's Ilana wears these on occasion as part of her Unlimited Wardrobe.
  • Lola Bunny wears a pair of short gym shorts as part of her original Iconic Outfit.
  • On Mission Hill, Jim returns from Japan with the latest thing there, brightly colored short shorts with Hello Kitty style decorations. Andy thinks they're ridiculous, but is soon the butt of scorn from the hip crowd because he isn't wearing them. When he finally comes around, he finds they're no longer hip, as they've gone mainstream and worn by the middle-aged.
  • The Simpsons did it. Someone wondered where the police were, and were informed by the Mayor they were investigating a boat crash carrying hotpants. Cut to the entire force, including Chief Wiggum asking 'Who wears short shorts?'
  • Dolly Gnome from Gnomeo & Juliet.


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