What happened to White Running Shorts

High fiber diets killed white shorts.

Nothing good comes from white shorts. Anything over 1,500 and you're asking for trouble due to sweat issues.

But to answer your question, my wife got a pair of Nike splits at Fleet Feet earlier this year. They are white and have a black liner. She sparkles rather than sweats when she runs, so it isn't an issue, but if I wore them I would probably get arrested for wearing see-through shorts.

But Nike makes them for women, so you could buy a pair.

I found men's pair of mediums from ASICS last year on Amazon. Not sure if they still make them but I was pumped.

A few Nike teams wear them and I always wonder why they don't sell replica singlets and shorts in the bookstores like they do with football and basketball jerseys. Girls would love the shorts and guys would love the bro tanks.

Good luck in finding the white shorts and keeping the spirit alive!

The Kiwi women were plagued by white shorts. Pictures of Anne Audain and Lorraine Moller suffering from see through fabric were common back in the day.

UT Austin's cross country team has sported some sweet all-white getups from time to time. I would love to get my hands on something like that.

It rained.

And in the '80s there were florescent running shorts -- bright lime, peach, coral, yellow... Tri-Fit made 'em.

Lots of old school shorts, including short white split shorts if you are so inclined-

http://www.soark.com/

Jr year of college we had white shorts. I ran the steeple. Not a good combo.

I've got the famous pic of Lasse Viren winning the Montreal 5000m as my desktop. Kiwis Rod Dixon and Dick Quax have black shorts. The other five are wearing white shorts--Brits Foster and Stewart in white singlets and shorts; Belgian Polleunis and West German Hidebrand, also in white singlets and shorts; and Viren in his Finnish blue singlet and white shorts.

Old runner. wrote:

I've got the famous pic of Lasse Viren winning the Montreal 5000m as my desktop. Kiwis Rod Dixon and Dick Quax have black shorts. The other five are wearing white shorts--Brits Foster and Stewart in white singlets and shorts; Belgian Polleunis and West German Hidebrand, also in white singlets and shorts; and Viren in his Finnish blue singlet and white shorts.

There's probably a difference between the kind of heavy white cotton shorts that people wore up until the 70's and white shorts made of modern lightweight polyester.

Not sure what you mean by "up until the 70's." Certainly by '76 we were wearing nylon and polyester shorts in addition to thin, lightweight cotton options.

Go to USATF website . They have XL shorts from what the team would have worn in in Moscow .

I purchased the shorts and singlet several years ago ,quite nice .

Made by Nike if that's ok with you

Anal pore

Tracksmith used to sell and still has a couple of shots of them on the website. However, it looks like they may have been discontinued (or are only sold at certain times -- Tracksmith seems to rotate colors of its products).

https://www.tracksmith.com/products/van-cortlandt-short

It is the Hat wrote:

High fiber diets killed white shorts.

Exactly, they can turn brown real quick.

I think white uniform shorts look excellent, but I'm realizing now that they could begin to exhibit some embarrassing stains if one trained in them.

If I can find a pair that wouldn't show the odd shart stain, I will wear them for training. Otherwise, I suggest we bring them back for racing purposes only.