Yeah, my hips aren't wide so my thighs do touch, and I've had (really short) shorts ride up that way in the past. So I stopped wearing short-shorts cut like that (my only shorts now are mid-thigh denim shorts with cuffs, you know the ones I mean? The Dirty Dancing-style shorts, that never ride up). It's really not hard, Tubbikins; wear something else. "All of my shorts do this regardless of whether they’re too big, and it’s not really something I can control other than avoiding certain textures / materials." Well, of course you can't be expected to do that simple thing! That would be almost as impossible as avoiding certain foods/portion sizes. What fools suggested you do that? Why is it that fats refuse to actually do anything differently or make even the tiniest effort to avoid grossing everyone else out? ETA: Guaranteed if its shorts are riding up that badly, the shorts are either really short or it's a superfat whose thighs rub all the way to the knee.