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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 22, 2008 - 11:31pm PT
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Time to pay homage to the most colorful period in climbing... the LYCRA era! Back in the day when true fashion ruled the crags - no beenies back then! Let's see who has the most classic (heinous?)lycra shots.........
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Looney
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Feb 23, 2008 - 12:15am PT
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WHERE did you guys buy these things?
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dfrost7
Social climber
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Feb 23, 2008 - 12:16am PT
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Thank you! I was hoping for this thread.
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Looney
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Feb 23, 2008 - 09:53am PT
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For real? No one else has any lycra shots?
I *know* there is more lurking lycra out there. Wish I had some to show.
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Michael Hjorth
Trad climber
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Feb 23, 2008 - 10:20am PT
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We had the same issue going on Danish Mountain Club site a few year ago, and I dusted off some old slides of me self.
Here belayed by Jakob in similar outfit. 1989.
Check the matching fleece-rope-tight color...
Michael
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AllezAllez510
Trad climber
PDX, OR
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Feb 23, 2008 - 10:28am PT
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Can I put myself out on a limb and ask: why? Was it more fashion or more functional?
I was probably about 8 years old when those pics were taken, but I do remember bicycle shorts being in fashion at my elementary school. Closest I ever came to lycra.
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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Feb 23, 2008 - 10:29am PT
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More please.
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Feb 23, 2008 - 11:27am PT
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A group shot everyone would like to forget:
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Salathiel
Trad climber
South Beach, FL
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Feb 23, 2008 - 11:32am PT
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Todd,
I met cos a few years after that photo of him in the "bee" lycra and mullet - the picture had been published in Climbing as a part of the story about his and the General's attempt to free the Muir wall. I asked him about it later, and he told me that he still has them, and charges extra when clients ask for 'em.
That picture cracks me up.
There is another photo of him bouldering out in the desert on a rock with the words "white power" spray painted on it. Cos has a knack for the provocative.
Blur
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 23, 2008 - 11:36am PT
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That last shot of Jerry's is too much. Not just lycra, but "Man-Pri" lycra. The shame...
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Feb 23, 2008 - 12:53pm PT
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Somewhere on the Eastside....
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Feb 23, 2008 - 12:56pm PT
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Documentary proof that golfers of the 70s were not the nadir of fashion.
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Feb 23, 2008 - 01:02pm PT
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I still wish I could get some of these Comici "plus fours"...
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 23, 2008 - 01:10pm PT
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What are you people? Slaves to fashion?
Lycra makes a fairly effective skin layer. Freedom of movement; overclothes slide easily.
Sometimes I wear bright colors to "teach" the rangers that climbers are easy to see. Then at other times I can go in camo and they see nothing.
Its about function, not fitting in. Some climbers may be bold, but apparently not bold enough to, heaven forbid, commit a fashion faux pas.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2008 - 01:12pm PT
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Here's an example of the fashionable "Man-Pri" at work...
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, Ca
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Feb 23, 2008 - 01:54pm PT
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Solid colors were good too. I don't recall who took this shot in Josh..
and dark color were warmer. G-gnome got this one, I'm on somethin' in Courtright.
The thing I can't understand is that I actually liked those tights... hmm.
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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Feb 23, 2008 - 02:09pm PT
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Good thing I'm a bicyclist, so I can wear this stuff without GUILT!
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
In the mountains... somewhere...
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Feb 23, 2008 - 02:41pm PT
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Let's see some Mike Paul photos! He always wore THE most gaudy Lycra pants of anyone.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2008 - 02:43pm PT
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Ksolem - DUDE - are you sporting those solid reds on Such a Savage?
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