Shorts Protest News Today

When Sen. Chuck Schumer quietly relaxed the U.S. Senate's dress code, supposedly to accommodate Sen. John Fetterman's desire to wear hooded sweatshirts and gym shorts, the backlash was swift. Apparent...

As fashion norms change, what people wear in public becomes ground zero for hashing out new ideas of race, class and gender.

John Fetterman might be the first to try to bare his legs in the U.S. Senate, but shorts, in particular, have a history of eliciting ire.

In the Shorts Protest of 1930, over 600 Dartmouth students defied the much-hated dress codes outlawing exercise clothing in campus buildings.

As fashion norms change, what people wear in public becomes ground zero for hashing out new ideas of race, class and gender.