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Sunday, March 28, 2021
Roscoe was certain that between the fresh baked bread
and his new bikini underwear, he would soon find a boyfriend.
A photograph featuring the Jockey Skants bikini brief has to post date 1958, which is when Jockey launched this particular brand, although - as above - they slimmed down the design in about 1962/3 to cater to the fashion for very brief male underwear. Skants were of a quick-dry, single-ply, four-way stretch Nylon, with a tell-tale cross-over of the back and front panels at the hip. They were made under licence in both Australia and Britain and manufacture ceased in the early 1980s. In Australia and Britain they were marketed as one of the first "sports brief" as replacement for the jockstrap, and became very popular with jockeys and particularly runners, given that running shorts were then split-leg at the sides from the belt down, which could be as draughty as they were revealing in a wind. My school put them on the uniform list in 1968, much to the amusement of my housemaster. The Skants line to this day remains one of Jockey's greatest commercial successes.
I went for a drink after a run with a friend in the early 80s at a local pub, not a gay bar. We were both wearing the split shorts of the time, and t-shirts, and we were asked to cover up or leave because someone had complained. We did not have anything else with us to put on, so we left and never went back.
A photograph featuring the Jockey Skants bikini brief has to post date 1958, which is when Jockey launched this particular brand, although - as above - they slimmed down the design in about 1962/3 to cater to the fashion for very brief male underwear. Skants were of a quick-dry, single-ply, four-way stretch Nylon, with a tell-tale cross-over of the back and front panels at the hip. They were made under licence in both Australia and Britain and manufacture ceased in the early 1980s. In Australia and Britain they were marketed as one of the first "sports brief" as replacement for the jockstrap, and became very popular with jockeys and particularly runners, given that running shorts were then split-leg at the sides from the belt down, which could be as draughty as they were revealing in a wind. My school put them on the uniform list in 1968, much to the amusement of my housemaster. The Skants line to this day remains one of Jockey's greatest commercial successes.
ReplyDeleteI remember when every gay bar in New Orleans was filled with guys in running shorts and very little else . . . about 1978.
DeleteI went for a drink after a run with a friend in the early 80s at a local pub, not a gay bar. We were both wearing the split shorts of the time, and t-shirts, and we were asked to cover up or leave because someone had complained. We did not have anything else with us to put on, so we left and never went back.
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