Short Shorts On The Way Back!!!

[Byron]

Yes, good old pics there to reflect the changing times - and those team photos looked far more impressive with the original long socks being worn.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me...nfpo1_1280.jpg

This has a relationship with mysterious number ten shorts (post#69)
These guys are wearing ES and they are all number twelve Barcelona
(and I think all with speedos under).
A style which is new to me - could they be beach volleyballers ?

Btw what are OP?

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

http://www.etsy.com/listing/11125200...ss-green-kelly

Popular in the US in the 70's and 80's

[solarguy]

Originally Posted by SwimTeamSpeedo

http://www.etsy.com/listing/11125200...ss-green-kelly

Popular in the US in the 70's and 80's

I had these shorts in ten different colors! Would love to have them now. I still get made fun of, for the pink pair I had!

[sebbie]

What I found interesting about the long College swim-team sequence is that the swimmers seemed to have no issues with being photographed as a team all clad in briefs up until about the year 2000. Then after that note that the men clad with sweatpants and maybe a zippered sweatshirt over were asked to step in front of the scantily clad swimmers which conveniently hides the torsos and legs of the guys wearing only briefs. After this there seems to be some dispute as to what appropriate swim-team team photo attire should be that doesn't get fully resolved in successive photos as the years pass.

Some guys in recent years seem comfortable being photographed only in their briefs, others perhaps less so. There is a bit of a homo-erotic component to all of this as in swim team guys being photographed only in briefs with a bunch of other guys..is this ok or not? It's part of bing part of the swimming team to get photographed in only your briefs sopmething every male swim team member needs to come to terms.

[Byron]

Swimmers maybe - but no issues with the water polo guys I would suggest
(in fact the less to wear the better)

[Byron]

OP green kelly seem to be corduroy walking shorts
(and Etsy some sort of craftsmen's cooperative from Brooklyn NY
but pricing goods on the website in GBP).

I would have thought STS's preference in running shorts to be something like this:
(nil inseam in the approved competition wear for this Oz athletic club)
http://www.athleticsact.org.au/_/rsr...ing_shorts.jpg

[Torchwatch]

The drug gangs in the USA started to wear big baggy shorts in the 1990's, they were able to hide drugs and weapons in their shorts. The black and later white communities followed suit when they played street basket ball and followed the fashion of the tougher guys.
The "moral majority" jumped onto the bandwagon, they identified shorter shorts with the gay community, and so turned young people against, showing their legs.
Interesting to see how in the WW2 era photos the guys went topless, but covered the navel.
The pre WW2 swimmers covered their chests but exposed their legs, in heavy cotton it must have been hard to swim. No wonder so many schools enforced naked swimming.

[Byron]

Heavy cotton might well be suitable in training as a drag suit today but I can still remember the horrors of oversized speedos in scratchy soggy wool !

[California Dolphin]

I know for a fact that the long and baggy look that guys all over the place are now wearing originated as the uniform for prison inmates and was initiated by the California Dept. Of Corrections some time in the early 80s.

Then Rappers and basketball players adopted the look.