Are creative shorts making a comeback? After dark years, shorts are once again becoming the main part of kit aesthetics

The drop of the new Borussia Mönchengladbach home kit has gone unnoticed, but the work of PUMA Football on the German club's shorts restored value to an element of the uniform almost always underestimated. In fact, shorts are the new trend for sportswear brands involved every year in the reworking and renewal of jersey designs. This year there are already three examples of shorts that have their own characteristic elements, a style apart from the jersey: from the Mönchengladbach that focuses entirely on the chevron design in green and black that recalls the details of the back of the shirt at PSG with the visible homage above all on the shorts to MJ's Chicago Bulls, up to Chelsea which in its psychedelic pattern also incorporates the lower part to complete the optical effect.

But still going backwards, a classic example also comes from Italian football. Lotto in the 1992-93 season is a sponsor of Fiorentina and, even if the kit goes down in history for the swastika created involuntarily by the geometric games in the upper part of the shirt, the Viola will be among the first teams in Serie A to have shorts with a design just that completes the kit by loading even more the uniform of character.

The history and aesthetic evolution of football shorts does not follow the attention that designers and brands have dedicated to the shirt, the fashion element par excellence of the football universe. Yet teams of aesthetic importance such as PSG and Chelsea have decided to focus on shorts as a distinctive element of the kit. For now, only Nike (including Jordan) and PUMA have decided to focus on an item that has been forgotten and neglected for many seasons. But the uniform launch period has just begun and there is still a whole world of trends to discover.