It’s long been reported that women find Cargo shorts (those long pocketed shorts that come in Khaki and beige) as - and let’s be polite here - not really the most attractive thing a guy can wear. Still, for reasons we will never understand, men still insist on buying them, wearing them, taking photographs in them and then, uploading them as their profile pic on dating sites.
Now, courtesy of data released by dating app Hater – which matches people based on their mutual dislikes – we have definitive proof that these shorts really are harming men’s dating prospects. The guys were divided into the top 10% and bottom 10% in terms of number of matches, to see what interests and/or lifestyle choices defined each group. And while the top 10% of guys were into superfoods, Air BNB and the podcast Serial, the least-matched guys profess a love of Anime, Pokémon Go and the dreaded Cargo Shorts.
Despite Kim K doing her very best to bring them back, it seems as though Cargo Shorts are about to join speedos and the sock & sandal combo in the hall of shame. But maybe if you really love Cargo shorts, it’s better to leave that picture up so any woman knows what she’s getting into. After all, there’s nothing worse than falling for a guy in the winter and then realising, come May, that you’ve made a monumental mistake.
We can’t tell you what to wear but we can swipe left until you listen. Still, it doesn’t really matter what we do, because we all know if the apocalypse happened and the world ended tomorrow, you can be sure that all that would be left on the planet would be cockroaches and cargo shorts.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.