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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Feb 23, 2008 - 02:50pm PT
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I apologize... I used to distribute plum smugglers, err, lycra into the climbing community. I even advertised the fact for a time. Somewhere I have some heinous shots... I will search.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 23, 2008 - 02:55pm PT
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So far, this thread has totally overlooked the better side of those lycra daze.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, Ca
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Feb 23, 2008 - 02:59pm PT
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Brass - That's a slab thingy on Future Games Wall called Games Without Frontiers. It does kind of look like the Savage though, now that you mention it.
Anyone know Ken Gohegan? For a while he was the Vetrinarian there in 29 Palms, lived just by Indian Cove there. For some reason he enjoyed making tights, and kept me stylin for a while there. He did some cool things with pinstripes that looked like they belonged in a nice Italian suit. We did a route together up in Indian Country there, called it the Last of The Gohegans...
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Michael Hjorth
Trad climber
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Feb 23, 2008 - 04:28pm PT
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Chiloe,
You're right. Let's get focus away from the atrocious colors and look into functionality:
Ease of movement is unsurpassed. Closely followed by the plusfurs of Comici. The climbingpants I have just now are horrible when I'm sweathing; fabric sticks to the skin and prevents movement.
For the same reason I still keep one pair of tights somewhere (but I don't dare to use them in public).
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Anastasia
Trad climber
Califlower
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Feb 23, 2008 - 04:43pm PT
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Nice to know that most of you don't mind the attention of "showing so much."
Now explain to me something...
Did you wear anything underneath?
Giggles...
AF
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 23, 2008 - 05:02pm PT
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Chiloe,
You're right. Let's get focus away from the atrocious colors and look into functionality:
Hah, Michael, you're right there were reasons, but I was thinking of something else when I wrote that ... every photo so far has been male!
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Feb 23, 2008 - 05:14pm PT
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No - we didn't wear anything underneath - remember that was when the dreaded visible panty line was an issue!
Lycra allowed men to get in touch with their feminine side at the same time demonstrating to the world that we were comfortable with ourselves.
What I liked about lycra was the freedom of movement the second skin provided and the sense of compression it gave my leg muscles.
Plus it looked sooooo cool!
I'll have to dig around my trunk - I think I still have some custom tights made by EmilyK in Santa Barbara around 81 or so.
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J. Werlin
climber
Cedaredge
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Feb 23, 2008 - 08:14pm PT
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This is an important historical thread and needs to be bumped back up.
JT April, 1986. Two ladies were selling some sweet tights to finance their road trip. We camped in the site adjacent to Watusi for three weeks, if I remember correctly.
Style points if you can name the route.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Feb 23, 2008 - 08:32pm PT
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Only pair I ever had was a blue/white motely pattern.
They were of the thicker variety spandex, I used them mostly for ice climbing on crags and ice sailing on a FreeSkate.
Mine were made by Hugh Herr.
I couldn't resist the sign on the clothes rack at IME in N.Conway at the time:
"Buy a pair and get into Herr pants"
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Feb 23, 2008 - 08:50pm PT
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These were so thin they should have been sold at a lingerie shop... I have to admit they did "set you free'. Guess who made them???
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Anastasia
Trad climber
Califlower
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Feb 23, 2008 - 09:05pm PT
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Bump...
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Feb 23, 2008 - 09:16pm PT
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this shot is from my first trip to shelf road in 1989. About 7 months after knee reconstruction.....
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Feb 23, 2008 - 09:17pm PT
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bachar,
i do believe those are Gramicci thights...
ks
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Feb 23, 2008 - 09:23pm PT
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kid - Yup, just like these were Gramicci...
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socalbolter
Sport climber
Silverado, CA
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Feb 23, 2008 - 09:50pm PT
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The route is Equinox and good old Ed Sampson used to push that Gramicci lycra out of his car.
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Feb 23, 2008 - 10:09pm PT
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bob - Kloberdanz?
I like the straight purple.
Interesting angle on the photographer's behalf...
Edit: That's Equinox? Weird angle - throws me off a little.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Feb 23, 2008 - 10:32pm PT
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Where did the lycra COME from? Who was the first? Was it an immediately accepted thing or did it take time to catch on? And...what happened to end the lycra movement?
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tenesmus
Trad climber
slc
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Feb 23, 2008 - 10:46pm PT
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Where and what route is that first pic? Something on Castleton? Big Bend?
you guys look so pretty
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2008 - 10:53pm PT
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Tenesmus - the route is Jah Man on Sister Superior in Castle Valley. I did feel pretty in my "planetoid" tights...
Here's a Long's Peak lycra moment...
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