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Carmen says that even outside the office, shorts can be "quite divisive among men," she says.

"When I speak to men about their opinions on shorts, they tend to say that they don't feel comfortable wearing them when not on holiday," Carmen says.

This included people wearing shorts as they worked from their kitchens or home offices, says Carmen Bellot, style editor at Esquire magazine - they no longer had to think about the bottom half of their outfits while on video-call meetings.

Wally Baram was cast to co-star as Carmen, a character she says felt very familiar, in Prime Video’s new college-set comedy “Overcompensating,” created by Benito Skinner.

Carmen Garcia of El Monte came, but reluctantly.