Style Syllabus: Longer Shorts To Avoid Mooning Anyone In Class

With summer apparently hitting the ground running, it's high time you abandon your jeans in favor of some easy, breezy, 80-degree outfits. We love short shorts as much as the next girl, but there's something decidedly uncool about peeling your half-bare butt cheeks off a plastic chair at the end of class.

We already predicted that longer, looser shorts would be a scene-stealer in 2012, and now the moment of truth has finally arrived. Before, Bermuda shorts may have conjured up memories of your grandmother's South Florida retirement community, but these six pairs are decidedly modern — click through to see for yourself!