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It was the year I invented shorts. I found sweat-sodden cricket flannels were weighing me down, so my tailor ran up some prototype shorts.
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The speaker humorously claims to have invented shorts after finding that sweat-soaked cricket trousers felt too heavy. A tailor then made an early trial version, or “prototype,” by replacing the cumbersome full-length flannels with something shorter and lighter.
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