shorts

There won't be any revolution in America† The people are all too clean.Theyspend all their time changing their shorts and washing themselves.You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

—Linklater, Eric Robert

   If the cardinal points of costume are Robes,Tato, Rig and Scunge, where are shorts in this compass? Theyare the never Robes as other bareleg outfits have been: the toga, the kilt, the lava-lava, the Mahatma's cotton dhoti; archbishops and field marshals at their ceremonies never wear shorts. The very word means underpants in North America.

—Murray, Les(lie Allan)