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Arrested Development: Tobias Fünke always wears a pair of cutoff jeans underneath his clothes (or even in the shower), due to being a self-diagnosed "Never-Nude". Some Catholic and Christian schools make girls wear modesty shorts under their skirts as part of their regular uniform, though usually just in the primary grades. However, many students continue to do this into secondary school of their own choice for comfort and convenience. Here in Charleston, SC, we are pretty much wearing shorts from March to November! My wardrobe has a shorts to pants ratio of like 6:1. So, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to find cute pairs, and how to wear them so I feel like I look good. I’ve always got an eye out for them when I’m shopping, and thought I’d share my finds with you! Many of these modest shorts are in my summer capsule wardrobe and also this casual summer outfit post too. Why Wear Modest Shorts? Some people just prefer the proportions of a bermuda short over a short-short. There’s lots of reasons to wear knee-length shorts, so lets find some cute ones! In a male example, classic depictions of Castlevania's Simon Belmont had him wearing small shorts under the "skirt" plates of his armor.
In an evidence session lasting two and a half hours, Spielman raised some eyebrows when she appeared to suggest that boys sending nude pictures of themselves to girls should not be treated as a safeguarding issue for schools. According to Word of God in the commentary of this El Goonish Shive strip, Elliot's Cheerleadra form wears these. This was mentioned due to reader response to the previous comic where it very much looked like Mr. Tensaided got a bit of an eyeful as Elliot flew away. After fighting with her bare legs under her dress in Melee, Zelda was given a set of leggings under it from Brawl onwards. In later chapters of Horimiya, the artist Daisuke Hagiwara gave female characters shorts under their short skirts so that they can sit in a feminine pose freely without being immodest. Questioned again by Mearns on whether it was not a safeguarding issue for the boy who sent the picture, Spielman said: “In sexual misconduct of every kind, there’s a spectrum from the truly evil and appalling at one extreme, all the way down to things which are essentially clumsy explorations of emerging adolescent sexuality.”If your workplace allows shorts, longer shorts are more professional and can look really cute with a blazer or button down shirt. And many schools have dress codes that require shorts to reach their fingertips. In Urusei Yatsura, a teacher gave Lum a pair of shorts to wear underneath her uniform after noticing that she was flashing other students as she flew around the school. Dead Space: Lexine in Extraction is an unusual case of wearing a skirt over a skin-tight bodysuit. The Male Gaze moments with her make it clear just how short the skirt is and still imply fan service. In the Dragon Ball Xenoverse games, all skirts have either biker shorts or tights underneath them. There's also a few cases of Modesty Bras: Tops that expose male characters' bare chests (like Beerus' clothing or Gogeta's vest) can be worn by females, in which case they wear the default tube-top bra underneath it. Tokino Sora was one of the few members who had modesty shorts from the start. This also highlights how the franchise converted essentially overnight from one that is not particularly hot on the "bike shorts under skirts" trend, to one of its biggest, most visible supporters.
Kimberly wears a leotard under pretty much every single outfit from the first season and a half. Even if she's not actually wearing a dress! Around late-season two she switched to skorts, which give the same effect. The title character in Phantom Thief Jeanne wears these with her Magical Girl outfit in the second season. In the first season, her outfit had no shorts underneath and was more following the Magic Skirt example.But there are many reasons to choose to wear longer, knee-length shorts. Tall women (like me! I’m 6’1″) may prefer long shorts to modestly cover more of their long legs.
Asuna dons in later chapters, too. Although in her case it's less about tomboyishness and more about not wanting to flash people whenever she fights in a miniskirt after a certain Going Commando incident in the Kyoto arc... Sakura Kasugano wears her gym shorts underneath her uniform. Though given how short they are, the effect is mostly lost on most western gamers.
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Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell in Hook. Having a live actress wearing Tink's getup from the Disney movie likely wouldn't have worked out. In all Pokémon X and Y-related media, Korrina, the Shalour City Gym Leader, is a lot more free to show off on her rollerblades knowing she has a pair of these. Splatoon 2, when expanding options for pants, has a miniskirt over the usual bike shorts as one of the options.
Idol Manager such shorts come up as a potential choice for the performance outfits of the idols. There are in fact two "short skirt" options: one with shorts and one without them. Unless they are wearing a full-body costume, female Miis in Mario Tennis Open wear shorts under their skirts. Sayuri of Asteroid in Love wears those when attempting to do reconnaissance on the Earth Sciences Club, mainly because it involves her suspending upside down to take covert photos at the clubroom.This is where Modesty Shorts come in. They let a girl run, jump, tumble, fight, climb ladders, or even fly without anyone catching a glimpse of her underwear. Other common variations are large puffy bloomers in non-period pieces which are used as a bit of a fancier version normally on more gothic characters. In Western works, spankies are worn for this purpose under cheerleading outfits, sometimes with tights or leggings. Spielman was being questioned on Tuesday by MPs on the cross-party education committee about the inspectorate’s safeguarding record after the publication last week of Ofsted’s review of sexual misconduct in schools. In Dragon Ball, Videl's shirt/singlet in her first and second outfits are so large that they come down to short skirt level, meaning that her tights effectively act as this.