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Dear Fran Lebowitz and other members of the Shorts on Men Are Disgusting Club,
Please welcome your newest member, supermodel Naomi Campbell. Although she does not specify that she finds shorts on men to be equivalent to having a hand grenade approach her, she does admit to "detesting" the idea of people wearing the ultra-cropped pant on airplanes. Campbell also advises that frequent fliers carry multiple pairs of shoes when traveling—a heel for arrival, a flat for the plane, and a high heel for when you get off. Naomi's take on shorts: They have a time and place, and hours on an airplane is not that time or that place.