Cutoffs

“Pull the back up a little higher,” Phil called. “Just enough.”

Mike hooked his thumbs in and gave a tug, standing at the edge of the water.

“Hold it there,” Phil said.

Mike smiled to himself.

“Laugh all you want, Ty… you’re next.”

Image 1 - Unknown Model

Cutoffs were practically the uniform of summer where I grew up. I remember the neighbors’ fathers washing their cars in the driveway, mid-July heat shimmering off the pavement, wearing nothing but frayed denim and flip-flops. The shorts hugged their hips in that unstudied way—casual, unbothered—and when they bent to scrub a tire or rinse the hood there might be the briefest suggestion of something more. Never intentional.

That was part of the power of it. The look carried its own quiet declaration: I don’t care how I look. I don’t care what you see.

Image 2 -  Unknown Model

Image 3 - Unknown Model.

Image 4 - Unknown Model

Image 5 - Ben Chapin

Image 6 - Guy Harding Moore

Image 7 - Greg Kolb

Image 8 - Ernie Langeberg

Image 9 - Roger aka Tom Garrett

Image 10 - Loren Marks

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