CLOTHING SUCH AS SHORTS

The invention provides clothing such as shorts which is capable of fitting excellently to the lower region of the hips of a person and certainly preventing hip hemlines thereof from rising. The clothing includes a stretchable front covering portion and a stretchable back covering portion and a gusset portion disposed between an inner-crotch front portion at the lower end of the front covering portion and an inner-crotch back portion at the lower end of the back covering portion and covering the crotch of the person. A body is opened and developed along a back center line S of the back covering portion and in the developed body with respect to a front center line S of the front covering portion the back center line S of the back covering portion is set so that the downward extended line of the back center line S approaches the downward extended line of the front center line S in a downward narrowing manner.