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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Looney
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Feb 29, 2008 - 04:41pm PT
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Bwhahaha! Just when I thought I'd seen the ultimate in lycra, I see these new photos. You guys are crackin' me up!
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knieveltech
Social climber
Raleigh NC
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I bought some leopard print lycra tights a couple of weeks ago that had their big debut at the gym this evening. I was immediately informed by the owners that "retro night is on monday, not wednesday" and "clearly I hadn't read the fine print on the waiver" and that "there was a fashion clause in the membership contract". Other than that (and this strange phenomenon where folks wouldn't look directly at me and tended to shuffle away from my general area if I stood still for more than a few seconds) these things are great! Very comfy, very shiny, and apparently a great way to ensure I never have to stand in line waiting for a problem at the gym ever again. SOLD! I can't wait to take them to the crag...
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Well, if clears folks off the routes I wanna do, then maybe I will have to try it. Plus, just look at what delightful company I could be in:
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
On my way to Boulder
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This thread continues to crack me up!
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Happi asked how it all started.Legend here in the east is that Hugh Herr was experimenting with ways to keep his prosthesis(sp),....his legs on.Lycra was the ticket.He was stiching at Wild Things and made some up.The rest is history.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 4, 2008 - 12:03pm PT
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I think you're right about Hugh Herr... he was likley the first to market lycra tights to the climbing community. His slogan was something like "you'll want to get into Herr pants"...
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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My first climbing 'fashion', after cowboy boots and hat, was the 1970's ubiquitous white painter pants, rugby shirt and bandanna or 'scull cap'. While the greater durability of double kneed Carharts soon became perferable for the slug fests of the Black Canyon and Red Rock and cycling hats replaced bandannas as head gear of choice, rugby shirts still reigned supreme.
Funny thing was for years I was not just climbing but also dancing in a modern dance company. I regularly wore lycra tights, leotards and unitards of all manner of style and color.
And I must say all the beautiful women I got to perform with looked fabulicious in lycra! Lycra really is a fabulously comfortable thing to wear and move in but lets face it not everyone should wear it. Some of the up thread pics prove that.
So, just like the simularly doomed 'mullet', over popularity drove lycra into the scrap heap of dork-ness.
Before the lycra revolution I used to climb alpine walls like the Diamond in lycra tights with leg warmers that would attach to velcro tabs sewn on wool bike shorts. Though for the day I am sure it was odd looking it was a great and versatile system of layering for rapidly changing conditions.
It was amusing for me when the wild stuff became the fashion d'jour of the climbing world. My favorite wild lycra was a strap top one piece bird feather print that Hank Caylor use to have. Ho man that was somethin'.
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana
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There's no excuse for this, there was no time in the 20th century when these colors/patterns should've been acceptable! LOL
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L
climber
If only I could remember....
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Willoughby's gang in the scrubs and lycra have me absolutely green with envy. Where did he get those zebras????
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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I once worked w/ a guy who was fond of wearing purple tights w/ a tucked in a tee-shirt and a fanny pack positioned off-center near the front for maximum "look at my package" effect.
It was indeed pretty bad and a at least 5 years after the last semi-tasteful person retired their lycra.
There was a crusty doc in the lab w/ no inclination for mincing words who told the lycra man that...
"Men should only wear tights if they are in play."
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Wow. If I could lay my hands on some of those zebra's, I'd wear the all the time.
"Works everytime, all the time, 60% of the time."
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L
climber
If only I could remember....
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O...M...G...Willoughby,
You have no idea what a happy girl you have just made me...
Not only zebra--but tiger too!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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those work for guys too, right?
how about the Red Paisley...
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L
climber
If only I could remember....
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Yeah Ed, with your dark hair, you'd look marrrrvalous in red paisley!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Debbie would fall over laughing if she saw me in those tights...
not that that would stop me.
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Gobie
Trad climber
Northern, Ca.
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I cant believe someone hasnt posted up the pic of the late Xavier Bongard on the cover of Big Walls climbing Sea of Dreams. Largo's got to have a shot of that somewhere. Id scan it but im still digging cords out from when i moved just to charge my cell phone.
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knieveltech
Social climber
Raleigh NC
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Last Saturday at the NRG:
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L
climber
If only I could remember....
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Lycra Lives!
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