Who remembers wearing short trousers at senior school

@Caned4doz @Caned4doz @Caned4doz did many of the boys have really muscular thighs from weightlifting and sports?? I love shorts! 😺

@Caned4doz I know what you mean about the trousers getting shorter, my mother made me some summer trousers and they were really short

@Caned4doz why did you not like your shorts getting shorter and shorter? you did not like showing off your quad and hamstring muscles on your thighs? I loved showing mine off at school in short shorts. 🎄

@skimpyboy I was raised in the 50's and I had to wear short pants at school up to the end of my high school at 18 years old and like you, my mom was always shortening the legs of these short pants as the years went on; and at the end they were very short almost up to the zipper. I put back also denim or corduroy short shorts of various colours inmy as undergraduate at college when the weather allowed it.I was enjoying showing my quad and hamstring muscles on my smooth ad almost hairless thighs, Although arousing, I didn't mind a lot, I was quite immature for my age.

@Caned4doz My mom though that I had well shaped and pretty smooth legs at 15 yeas old and naturally I had to show them off. That is why she kept me in short pants through all my secondary classes. However.I believe that they were other reasons underlying this decision, She got it right in my sense, when she saw me bewildered wearing short pants as a college studenti.I wish to discuss with you about it if you are interested,

@yvan6615 DId anyone else where short trousers like you did in high school ? From your description they sounded very short and must have been right at the top of your legs .
These days I think a boy in his first day at secondary would be embarrassed to wear short trousers and other would certainly take the mick

@skimpyboy As I can remember, I was the only one in the varsity years still wearing shorts but in the first yeaes in this religious junior college there were still some one or two.. We were living in the 50s, and it was quite normal if not current, but we were not the laughing stock of the other students, smirked or an object of ridicule, Personally, I was never embarrassed to wear short trousers even as a college student.

@yvan6615 it sounds like you had a great time and once 13 I was more or less forced into long trousers yet we all wore very tiny shorts in PE lessons.
I still wear small shorts when on the beach or gardening at home but do prefer to wear nothing when possible

@Caned4doz I suspect the shorter short trousers were, the easier the access to our thighs and legs were for meting down a corporal punishment like slapping or strapping of the legs. Parents often deny their children the right of growing up and becoming adult.

@skimpyboy Some memories popped up to my mind after more than sixty years,As senior student still in shorts,my clasmates were not very appreciative of my personality, I think that most of the class were tacitely disapproving my choiceof wearing short pants so late in my teens, The most of them were distant, condescending and sometimes agressive towards me.I was different, eccentric, babyish or girlislh.in my short pants I was looking three or four years younger than my age and my mates were in majority junior students in short pantts of the same mental age. I felt secure and at ease with them.Moreover, without being to aware of it, I revealed myself as unruly and undisciplined and often deserved to be paddled,spanked or strapped still at 17-18 years old like a ten years brat. I was really embarrassed and shameful when I had to return to my class crestfallen, weeping and sobbing after a sound bare bottom spanking sometimes on the headmaster's lap. A that age I didn't yet make the distinction between affectivity and sexuality and between mental and chronological age. I am still bewildered for not having gone through this rite of passge on time i.e. switching to long pants like all the other normal lads..I think that Ihave never gone throug! Please tell me what you think about these memories. Thanks a lot.

@yvan6615 The teenage years are a turbulent time. I can remember feeling envious of those lads my age who seemed to be self-assured and confident, whereas I thought of myself as immature and uncertain. I tried my best to appear normal (whatever that meant). As for the shorts, it was different for me in that the school I attended didn't give choices. The uniform mandated shorts for summer and long trousers for winter and no matter the age of boys, those rules applied.

I think it was different for you as I am guessing you had the choice to wear shorts or longs. You chose shorts whereas your peers opted for longs. With you in the minority, you became the focus of attention.

Discipline and corporal punishment was something else again. My school was very strict (it was a private Catholic boys school). Punishments escalated with age. Juniors could often be put over the knee and spanked, some got whacked with the board ruler, but once aged around 13 and over, it was the cane. Punishments did seem to decline in frequency as one got older and that was probably because we stopped doing silly nonsense, but when we were punished, we damn well knew about it. My housemaster was no slouch with the cane and it was a very tough boy who didn't have tears after a proper six of the best.

Your memories are YOUR memories and they fit with your personality and character. There was (and still) no such thing as 'normal', but I do accept that there was a common standard that as teenagers we desperately wanted to neatly comply with. Anyone who was slightly different was the subject of teasing and ridicule and for those on the receiving end, that made life difficult and had them questioning themselves.

@Caned4doz Thank you so much for your unexpected and wise reply.Your last paragraph is particularly insightfull and does correspond to the school experiences I went through. I was enrolled in a Catholic junior college in which senior students ( 17-19 years old) were given choices between short and long pants. At 16, my parents believed that I was still too young and immature to shift to long trousers, So, with three or four lads , I spent my senior years in short trousers and. in minority, we, short pants, bearers, became the focus of attention and the subject of teasing and harassement, Although I felt so insecure and so unconfortable, I never brought into question the appropriateness of wearing short trousers at 17-18 years old. I think that I was a slow lerner and tardy grower, with an uncertain sexuality. I looked f for sure four or five years younger than my age . As the corporal punishments were seldom meted out in the senior classes, the prefect of discipline,after many warnings and hours of detention for what you call rightly silly nonsense, at least had three times to resort to the martinet on my bare bottom to talk some sense into me. It didn't seem to work. I suppose that I was one of these teens slow to get it (lent à l'allumage) Happy to read that you were a very tough boy, while I was a weakling , a crying babby s kind of wuz on daddy or the prefect's lap. Please, message me again I enjoy reading you.
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