51. My first year of Little League in 1973, the uniform was just a team t-shirt and cap. Most kids wore jeans and my Dad made me wear sweatpants, which I did not appreciate at the time. Practice in jeans was common unti I was about 11-12 yrs old.
51. My first year of Little League in 1973, the uniform was just a team t-shirt and cap. Most kids wore jeans and my Dad made me wear sweatpants, which I did not appreciate at the time. Practice in jeans was common unti I was about 11-12 yrs old.
Blue jeans wrote:
Ran my first timed mile in jeans and Air Jordan's in 5th grade around a baseball diamond. Barely broke 8. Played all pickup sports through 8th grade in jeans or whatever I wore to school.
Air Jordan's? You were big time!
jeanie wrote:
I prefer hiking and cycling in jeans. I get them slim with a bit of stretch to them.
Jeans are the worst cloth to wear when wet.
Yes played softball, stickball, street roller derby, pick up games of touch football, and playground basketball all in dungarees. You came home from school and automatically changed into your dungarees.
We wore jeans to school. Didn't have to change at all.
Jeans are made for sports. I wear jeans whenever I play football, ride my tractor, or hunt. The only time I don't wear my jeans now a days is when I send text messages.
I brke 38 in a 10k in jeans that i rolled up as far as i could get them because I was walking down the street in Paris France on leave one time and they were having that 10k race where the races were starting at the same time around the globe or something.
Took my belt and jacket off and threw them in the bushes along the Champs-Elysee an american helped me register, and I ran
It was point to point, went by the Arc de Triumph down Foch Avenue and I remember a park.
It ended at some soccer stadium?
Then I had to find my way back on the metro.
My jacket and belt were still there then I took the metro to Jim Morrison's grave, the last stop on the metro Du Pere Lachaise.
In sweaty jeans with my bib number still on.
I did an hour run in jeans and boots once. I was volunteer coaching for a high school team when I was in college. One of my kids finished his event early in the meet, and wanted to get in an easy run. The kid asked me if I'd join him, so I was like, "umm, okay," and just ran with him in my street clothes.
I started wearing running shoes and wearing running shorts under my jeans after that.
Tough Skins! You bought them at Sears and could play all day in them. If you slid into 2nd, sometimes, you would fray the fabric on the sides but your knee could be completely bloddy and that ironed on patch was not hurt at all.
Old Guy #365 wrote:
We wore jeans to school. Didn't have to change at all.
1950s NYC rules were similar to Buffalo rules
Recommended:
1.Dress shirt and tie or conservative sport shirt and tie with suit jacket, jacket, sport coat, or sweater
2.Standard trousers or khakis; clean and neatly pressed
3.Shoes, clean and polished; white bucks acceptable
Not Recommended:
1.Dungarees or soiled, unpressed khakis
2.T-shirts, sweat shirts
3.Extreme style of shoes, including hobnail or "motorcycle boots"
-This is an excerpt from the Dress Code for High School Students in New York in the year 1956, administrated by Buffalo, New York's Board of Education on January 24, 1956. This portion of the dress code particularly pertains to boys in academic high schools and Hutchinson-Technical High School. Dress codes, such as the one above, were designed to discourage delinquency and gang-related behavior, which adults feared that teenagers were adapting to. By instituting these dress codes in schools, they hoped to encourage conformity and adherence to proper social roles. In addition to these dress code guidelines, boys whose hair touched their ears could be punished by expulsion from school. Girls could not wear any type of slacks, for it was viewed as unfeminine. These dress codes were among the many restrictions set upon teenagers in the 1950's in an effort to push conformity and maintain innocence
https://humanitiesfall11.wikispaces.com/1950%27s+Teenagers+LAHRHa ha! Everyone talking about wearing jeans like they're advancing on a beachhead. Believe it or not, kids still wear jeans...they even wear jeans while playing *gasp* sports [dun, dun, dun].
iuiouioj wrote:
Ha ha! Everyone talking about wearing jeans like they're advancing on a beachhead. Believe it or not, kids still wear jeans...they even wear jeans while playing *gasp* sports [dun, dun, dun].
Yeah, but "sports" to kids these days is something they only do with their fingers on cellphones and gaming consoles.
I like to wear jeans. That feels good. I often buy jeans in Selerit.com because they are comfortable and affordable.
Argh! wrote:
Old Dude #365 wrote:
I am 56 and grew up in a small town below the mason dixon line and remember playing baseball and basketball in jeans. Plenty of guys would wear baseball jersey and jeans. I was lifting with my son and asked him to do sprints with me. He was like "in jeans ?" I busted out about thirty 40 yard sprints in my jeans.
Humble rag, right?
--you busted out a 40 in 30 secs, right? Aight.
No way you ran 30, 40m sprints at 56.
I'm 54 and just did 30 X 1 minute hard/1minute easy
Also I NEVER remember playing sports in jeans unless you count kickball at recess during school.
Yep. from the mid-70s to the early 80s, my teenage friends and I did all our sports in jeans: touch football, basketball, softball, stickball, weight lifting, etc. That was the norm back then (an era when kids were active and didn't sit on their asses in front of screens all day) and full sweats, warmup suits, or other purpose-built "athletic gear" were only seen in organized competition, and sometimes not even then: I was on a Little League team where we were only issued uniform shirts, and we wore those with jeans as well. And when I started running, for my first two years in the sport jeans were sometimes my preferred bottoms for cold weather training. (Occassionally with construction boots, in imitation of Zatopek).
I'm 58. Organized basketball and football weren't in jeans but baseball was up until 8th grade when we had real unis. Until then it was tennis shoes(that's what we called any athletic shoes), jeans, cap, and a t-shirt with your team's name and your number on the front and your number and sponsor on back. "McNally Shell" was one I remember from 6th grade. Chico's Bail Bonds FTW though!
Yeah I had a teammate named Powells who ran the 100 in 9.9 Duda
What a bunch of liars.
we wore jeans, a track jacket and running shoes all the time in the 80s when I was at school. We played all kind of sports during the breaks and after school in jeans. It's not a big deal. Jeans weren't as skinny or thin material like they are nowadays.
Blue jeans wrote:
Ran my first timed mile in jeans and Air Jordan's in 5th grade around a baseball diamond. Barely broke 8. Played all pickup sports through 8th grade in jeans or whatever I wore to school.
I ran once sprints in woolen socks that my grandma had made. I wore moon boots that day but when I tried to ran fast it was impossible. Both the moon boots and the socks were slippery in snow where we ran but the feet were kind of moving too much in shoes. So it was better just in socks. Some guys wore valenki which were also very slippery.
Another funny thing was that when we had cross-country skiing at school we wore those skiing shoes all day. My parents told me that when they were kids everybody wore skiing shoes all winter. It wasn't common to have any other winter shoes that time. After the war other shoes weren't probably even manufactured.