I used to roll up my shorts back in the day
because Steve Ovett and Frank Shorter did same.
Also recall some of lydiards boys doing same.
I used to roll up my shorts back in the day
because Steve Ovett and Frank Shorter did same.
Also recall some of lydiards boys doing same.
txRUNNERgirl wrote:
It has little to do with style or showing skin. Low-rider jeans went out of style a couple of years ago anyway. Chimpo is correct. Women are shaped differently than men (wider hips). So the shorts often ride up when the waistband isn't rolled down. The fabric is also more comfortable against the skin than an elastic waistband.
I'll just say I don't believe a word you just wrote. NONE of the college girls I ran with ever did that. No boy or girl when I was in high school ever did that. It is a current trend that I've seen just the last few years (meaning it probably started in California a couple years before that). Older women runners don't do that. It is not about function at all - solely style and personal comfort based on style.
Foolpole,
How old are you? I'm a 39 year old female and was wearing my shorts rolled down (along with my college teammates) at a southern school.
Suck it!
Awesome, it's not taken.
That one actually made me laugh.
Not sure there is any point discussing with him. He could be talking Astrophysics with Hawking and would still come up with some obscure life experience to try to prove his theory of everything is better.
You want pictures, I'll give you pictures
This gallery has a bunch of girls w/ their shorts rolled-over at footlocker.
yeah, and the consensus is that at that xc nationals meet a couple years ago when max king was wearing just a singlet and shorts in 15 degree weather it was all about trying to look sexy.
some people just like to race in less. if a dude does it it's considered manly by a lot of folks. what's the difference when a woman does it?
if it is a current fashion trend who cares either way. you think it looks stupid and i'm sure there is something you where that other people think looks stupid (i.e. short shorts on men)
If you look at the FL pics you will see the girl discussed in the previous post(2nd to Hasay at qualifier). This girl managed to roll her shorts to the point where they actually looked like what she wore at the qualifier LOL. It appears that most, not all, of the top females just ran and left their shorts alone.
Damn! Who's that girl in the third pic?!?!
Flagpole wrote:
txRUNNERgirl wrote:It has little to do with style or showing skin. Low-rider jeans went out of style a couple of years ago anyway. Chimpo is correct. Women are shaped differently than men (wider hips). So the shorts often ride up when the waistband isn't rolled down. The fabric is also more comfortable against the skin than an elastic waistband.
I'll just say I don't believe a word you just wrote. NONE of the college girls I ran with ever did that. No boy or girl when I was in high school ever did that. It is a current trend that I've seen just the last few years (meaning it probably started in California a couple years before that). Older women runners don't do that. It is not about function at all - solely style and personal comfort based on style.
Anyone who knows me knows I won't agree with flagpole unless he is 100000% correct beyond any doubt, and this time he is (as are the others who agree with him).
Ladies, get a grip for crissakes! You don't even know why you do what you do , or are being completely dishonest with yourselves, and that is embarrassing. While nearly all of you will admit you love fashion, apparently you can't admit you are slaves to it. Bunhuggers riding up your ass are more comfortable than regular running shorts or some sort of 'boy shorts' that cover more butt? Of course not, but you all (nearly all of you) fell for the bunhugger fashion move and made up all sorts of reason why you wear them :'they are more aerodynamic', 'they are more comfortable', 'I feel fast in them', etc. Bullshit to all of that. Other girls were wearing them, so you went along with the crowd. Period. And why did it start as a fashion in the first place? Because hot runners girls looked sexy in them, and thus got more attention, and viola, a trend was born!
And the now the same thing is happening with this "roll down your shorts" nonsense, and you are twisting yourselves like a pretzel trying to come up with some sort of utilitarian reason for why you do it. STOP IT! You do it because it is the "in thing", and it is the "in thing" because it looks sexy and gets guy's attention. End of story.
Women bitch and bitch that men don't respect them or take them seriously enough, but yet every time we try, ya'll jump on a fashion trend that renders you a piece of meat. Fine, have it your way. I'll watch beach volleyball to see the bikinis and I'll watch women's running to check out the bra and panties outfits you are in. But don't blame ME if I am more concerned with the skin you are showing than the times you are running.
I roll some of my shorts becuase they are a little loose and they come up, and it's very annoying. Imagine having your shorts touch your belly button.
I'm a male and not gay at all.
I actually hate gay people.
Sir Lance-alot wrote:
Bunhuggers riding up your ass are more comfortable than regular running shorts or some sort of 'boy shorts' that cover more butt? Of course not, but you all (nearly all of you) fell for the bunhugger fashion move and made up all sorts of reason why you wear them :'they are more aerodynamic', 'they are more comfortable', 'I feel fast in them', etc. Bullshit to all of that. Other girls were wearing them, so you went along with the crowd. Period. And why did it start as a fashion in the first place? Because hot runners girls looked sexy in them, and thus got more attention, and viola, a trend was born!
You do it because it is the "in thing", and it is the "in thing" because it looks sexy and gets guy's attention. End of story.
Actually Lance, I am female, ran for a D1 school in the mid-eighties and wore bunhuggers because the week before our first collegiate track meet, our middle-aged MALE coach lined up the freshman in the locker room and gave us a sexist spiel about how while he wouldn't force any of us to wear the bunhuggers instead of shorts if we felt strongly about it, but that bunhuggers were sexier, and a sexy women's team sold tickets. I would have been more comfortable in shorts. So shut your trap, Jackass!
And BTW, I didn't know anyone was doing it when I started.
noob blocker wrote:
I actually hate gay people.
Ha! Nice touch.
Er... wrote:
Damn! Who's that girl in the third pic?!?!
http://www.trackandfieldphoto.com/DisplayJpg.php?060401_0451_1980_RLM&next=1
Erin Bedelicious
i love this shit wrote:
noob blocker wrote:I actually hate gay people.
Ha! Nice touch.
Well, it's true.
Baylor
my observations on the subject after coaching hs two decades: rolling down waistbands started soon after the turn of the century, following the sea change -- low-rider jeans.
before that, the occasional girl would "adjust" her shorts outside of the norm to better fit her body, but it was not anything which the whole group did as a "look".
by and large, the present trend is a fashion trend, but may indeed be a discovery which functionally works much better for girls...interesting.
back in the day (high school), it felt normal to have shorts ridin high because that's how everything fit; girls grumbled about shorts riding up when racing, but that was just part of life. rolling down the band would have seemed too extreme a measure, which would set you apart from everyone else, so it rarely happened -- there aren't too many 17 year old fashion iconoclasts. gosh, i can only remember one girl in hs rolling her waistband, but i hadn't a clue as to why.
when i ran xc in high school 30 years ago, we wore our dolphin shorts high, waist high, like the girl in the pick wearing striped dolphins.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_SXar8_jcTQk/SKIkBmQjgJI/AAAAAAAAB6c/vwn0dg67cYA/Leona+1977+-1980_4.jpg
Maybe not a fad per se; 7 years ago the waistbands on clothing were higher and thus, you were used to them riding up a bit. Now that waistbands are lower than that, it more noticeable when shorts ride up. Some manufacturers make shorts with a lower waist now as a result; I know Nike does.Personally, I typically tend to roll mine over once just to keep them from moving, unless they are cut a bit lower to begin with. Thinking back, I DID do this many years back as well only because I didn't like the feeling of fabric riding too high...but it was certainly less common then.
chubb wrote:
My question is what did they do to change the shorts making them suddenly uncomfortable in the last 5-7 years? No one was rolling shorts before that. It sure seems more like a fad than practicality, but people can wear shorts or uniforms anyway they please as far as I'm concerned.
