Today these Adidas training pants are vintage, from the 70s to the 90s every teenager or young man (at least in my environment) either had such Adidas training pants - or wanted them.
I belonged to the second group back then. :/
Published on 14.01.2023
The smooth, shiny fabric, polyamide or nylon, had already fascinated me as a small child. I had discovered this on the basis of ski suits made of this material, as can be read in the post 20081213Schneehase of the Gayski.de blog.
At the beginning of my teenage years, i.e. at the end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s,* tracksuits were generally in vogue, especially those of the Adidas brand. Since my parents were against any brand cult, I got a noname tracksuit. It was also made of 100% polyamide on the outside and I liked it quite a bit.
But only until my older brother finally bought a real Adidas tracksuit from his own pocket money.
My brother was never physically attractive to me in any way, he was simply my brother. But the tracksuit attracted me almost magically: When it was hanging on the clothesline in the garden, I would often sneak around it or walk between the pant legs so that I was close to the fabric. All as inconspicuously as possible, of course, because no one was supposed to notice. The fabric was much smoother than my training pants, but at that time these pants were still much too big for me.
This picture is not from the 80s,* but the training pants are in the same garden almost two* decades later deliberately hung on the line as it was then. :)
Shortly before the photo was taken in the garden, my brother and I exchanged two training pants with each other and since then they are mine - and they fit in the meantime :)
Meanwhile, I have a few copies of these Adidas training pants, but the original pants from back then is always easy to distinguish, because it has a patch on the knee in the shape of a triangle with a skier as a motif.
The gray pants from Alpha Industries, a brand that is known primarily for bomber jackets, is also made of 100% polyamide, but completely unlined, so only a very thin nylon layer. Therefore, it lends itself but just to put on the training pants underneath. :)
Why this is so, I can not name, but the change of clothes, or as here the removal of the upper layers, that also has a very strong appeal to me.
I will get to the next layer under the training pants in the next blog post: The clothes worn underneath :) That is in fact another story, because what then emerges is a preference that I discovered again a little later in my life...
*I got the decades wrong, my teenage years were in the late 80s and early 90s, the picture of the clothesline is from 2007.
25.03.2012
The clothes worn underneath
The same, smooth-shiny material, only very short, most with inner briefs, the dark blue ones without, that is the Adidas shorts. They also date back to the 70s and 80s: as soccer shorts or German Army sports shorts.
One of them fits perfectly with my training pants.
Published on 19.01.2023
While I have known about the Adidas track pants for a very long time, as can be read in the blog post From The Leash, the Adidas shorts came along much later in my life.
As I write this, I am trying to remember how exactly I found out about these shorts. I think I first saw them on the internet. I remember it was in my first apartment in the student dorm in Berlin Biesdorf just after the turn of the millennium, so about 10 years later.
By the way: around that time, my preference for sports pants also jumped over to sports shoes. However, I do not like every kind of sneakers and also not every smell - my own smell is the most pleasant for me, there I know, so to speak, what I have. :)
The old and much loved Fila sneakers were also with me on this day in March 2013, but they stayed in the bag on the bottom right corner of the picture. :)
The plain dark blue shorts without Adidas logo do not have an inner brief, they were made for the Bundeswehr as sports shorts. All other color combinations have a cotton inner slip from the factory. Whether you like it and leave it or you do not like it and cut it out, that is up to you. Since I love the outside material, which the inner slip does not have, it usually cut it out for me.
There are shorts in different colors, plain, with shadow stripes or pinstripes. Shadow stripes are vertical wider stripes of darker and less shiny material like on the shorts pictured in this blog. Pinstripes, on the other hand, are thin white stripes, also running vertically.
The medium blue Adidas shorts with shadow stripes has become my favorite, mainly because the color matches exactly with the training pants. :)
Whether you wear something under the Adidas shorts or not, is also up to you. I find the combination with an Adidas swim slip very appealing, because I also like the thin and tight-fitting Lycra fabric very much.
Meanwhile, I also have an Adidas swim slip in matching blue color for this.
By the way, the sleeping bag on the deck chair below me is made of the same beloved material - and even older. It dates back to the childhood of my mother! Practically, it serves here mainly as a windbreaker for the back. :)
