Article: Female Times: . . . off the peg: HOTTEST of hot-pants.(Features)

For years we simply called them shorts. Then, in the seventies, they became hot-pants. Now you can take your pick.

What's the difference? I suppose we always believed shorts to be something you wore at leisure - playing tennis, sun-bathing - that kind of thing.

The term hot-pants took off in ...

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