The outspoken designer Tom Ford famously said that men “should never wear shorts in the city.” Writer and cultural critic Fran Lebowitz called them “repulsive.” A lot of detractors find men in shorts ...

“Is bad taste a bad thing?” wondered a British Vogue writer in 1971. At that time, old rules about suitability and propriety were being jettisoned, replaced by personal expression and a stylistic free ...