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Title: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: BayGBM on July 20, 2024, 05:28:59 PM
There was a period in the mid to late 1990s when these unitards were everywhere... in magazines, in gyms... then almost overnight they disappeared.  Does anyone know why they started and why they fell off in popularity?  Were they patented by a company that went out of business?  You almost never see them anymore. ???
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: WrongAdvices on July 20, 2024, 05:42:03 PM
Everyone who had one, please confess.  I had a lot of genie pants, spandex, T Michael wear etc, but never one of these.
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: michael arvilla on July 20, 2024, 06:04:06 PM
Trish ( “Hot skins “) had a shop Venice California…. Visited it in the early 1990’s and yes I bought some of those stripped uni- tards …let me see if I can find a pic?)
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: beakdoctor on July 20, 2024, 06:06:46 PM
Was anyone ever brash enough to don a stripped unitard WITH construction boots?
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: michael arvilla on July 20, 2024, 06:13:27 PM
Was anyone ever brash enough to don a stripped unitard WITH construction boots?
no lol!  ;D
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: michael arvilla on July 20, 2024, 06:26:22 PM
……. :o
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: michael arvilla on July 20, 2024, 06:43:16 PM
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Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on July 20, 2024, 06:51:02 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: POB on July 20, 2024, 07:12:52 PM
Same goes for the ladies spandex pants with a dif color thong over them
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: Grape Ape on July 20, 2024, 08:10:38 PM
There was a period in the mid to late 1990s when these unitards were everywhere... in magazines, in gyms... then almost overnight they disappeared.  Does anyone know why they started and why they fell off in popularity?  Were they patented by a company that went out of business?  You almost never see them anymore. ???

For some reason I feel that WE should be asking YOU, this, and not vice-versa.
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: Humble Narcissist on July 21, 2024, 12:19:19 AM
Everyone who had one, please confess.  I had a lot of genie pants, spandex, T Michael wear etc, but never one of these.
I never had a stripped one but did have a unicolor one. :-[
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: IroNat on July 21, 2024, 03:39:54 AM
Same goes for the ladies spandex pants with a dif color thong over them

Pics?
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: funk51 on July 21, 2024, 03:51:37 AM
it went the way of the dodo and the mankini and is now extinct.
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: Brenda Steunbeer on July 21, 2024, 04:21:08 AM
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGu1rcmh_5gtXAqDGwYnQ-tK8ltu8tF3DCkA5q7vbb7zYe1LPgN2P33a8brcFzBR4s4R2j-JNoUdUk6tAt8N7pODkWZyR-RmPiX5EM9_OP_smpGVosmaTIzSkCbIbzqScQJ5by5uDRPx5l/s640/levron72.jpg)

To ungay this thread:

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Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: BayGBM on July 21, 2024, 04:34:14 AM
;D

Like I said, they were everywhere: in every magazine… photoshoots… training videos… and in gyms.  But it only looked “good” if you had serious mass.
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: 38 returns on July 21, 2024, 04:36:03 AM
not for me

but had a lot of platinum baggies, cra-z wear, better bodies etc

Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on July 21, 2024, 05:28:26 AM
 :)
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: Taffin on July 21, 2024, 07:17:01 AM
I never had a stripped one but did have a unicolor one. :-[

Me too - couple of them in fact (oh brother)

Not that convenient when you need the toilet as I recall...
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: SOMEPARTS on July 21, 2024, 09:29:00 AM
You mean "striped"? I believe "stripped" qualifies as a Freudian slip given the OP.   :D
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: Brenda Steunbeer on July 21, 2024, 12:11:04 PM
Like I said, they were everywhere: in every magazine… photoshoots… training videos… and in gyms.  But it only looked “good” if you had serious mass.


They never looked good. Just gay, cringe, tasteless, awkward, tacky and fetish-like.
Even more so when combined with Otomix shoes  :)
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Ron on July 21, 2024, 12:16:53 PM

In the 80's, the craze was California Baggy Pants - so many people wore them, quite comfortable, many styles and colors and graphics... now, just a few remain to buy out there..
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: GymnJuice on July 21, 2024, 12:20:44 PM
Zubaz FTW  ;D
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: SOMEPARTS on July 21, 2024, 12:23:09 PM
Zubaz FTW  ;D


1988....Cinci Bengals striped Zubaz doing the Icky Shuffle.  8)
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: J. Richards on July 21, 2024, 01:15:29 PM
yep.... still have a pair of the striped shorts..  Jagware... he had good stuff and a nice guy....
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: falco on July 21, 2024, 02:15:15 PM
I had an olympic weightlifting suit. I do not believe those unitard reached Portugal.
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: falco on July 21, 2024, 02:18:13 PM
Me too - couple of them in fact (oh brother)

Not that convenient when you need the toilet as I recall...
I never drank during the workout when i wore them.
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Walter Sobchak on July 21, 2024, 02:20:30 PM
In the 80's, the craze was California Baggy Pants - so many people wore them, quite comfortable, many styles and colors and graphics... now, just a few remain to buy out there..

Clothes for perma bulkers and fat people.
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Grape Ape on July 21, 2024, 02:21:57 PM
Clothes for perma bulkers and fat people.

We call these Arvillas v.1
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Walter Sobchak on July 21, 2024, 02:24:58 PM
We call these Arvillas v.1

Arvilla never has to worry about hiding the bulge when he wears spandex.

Mini turtle head of peace.
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Dalnet on July 21, 2024, 03:48:34 PM
The jean shorts, suspenders and workman boots will never be beaten
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Sandrock on July 21, 2024, 03:54:39 PM
The jean shorts, suspenders and workman boots will never be beaten

Did Chris Lund invent that look for bodybuilders?  I like to think he brought a suitcase full of daisy dukes, sleeveless flannels, suspenders and workboots to all his photoshoots and selected the outfits for the guys he would photograph himself.
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on July 21, 2024, 03:56:38 PM
The jean shorts, suspenders and workman boots will never be beaten
;D
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Dalnet on July 21, 2024, 04:35:05 PM
Did Chris Lund invent that look for bodybuilders?  I like to think he brought a suitcase full of daisy dukes, sleeveless flannels, suspenders and workboots to all his photoshoots and selected the outfits for the guys he would photograph himself.

Lol. "Put this on. It's.... for the art." I'm not sure where it originated.
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Dalnet on July 21, 2024, 04:39:41 PM
;D

Wouldn't do interviews to female reporters but would happily don that look for magazines... He chose well...

Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: michael arvilla on July 21, 2024, 06:58:37 PM
Arvilla never has to worry about hiding the bulge when he wears spandex.

Mini turtle head of peace.
negga …. Please….. that’s a scorned girls “ go to” for an insult when they nothing else ( wake up!)
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: njflex on July 21, 2024, 07:08:58 PM
I think the Steiner bros bought them all out.
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Walter Sobchak on July 21, 2024, 08:07:31 PM
negga …. Please….. that’s a scorned girls “ go to” for an insult when they nothing else ( wake up!)

Settle down Michelle, you may be the only Getbigger to ever lose a mandatory pose to Hankins.

Love the tattoos, very original and edgy.
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Dave D on July 21, 2024, 08:19:38 PM
I think the Steiner bros bought them all out.

great take. They eventually had airbrushed designs over the stripes.
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Grape Ape on July 21, 2024, 09:04:09 PM
Unnecessary apostrophe in "bodybuilders" and also misspelling of "striped" in the thread title.

OP should not get a pass just for fulfilling multiple DEI checkboxes.

Please correct this.
Title: Re: the stripped Unitard
Post by: Humble Narcissist on July 22, 2024, 01:12:17 AM
it went the way of the dodo and the mankini and is now extinct.
All steroids.
Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: Brenda Steunbeer on July 23, 2024, 10:26:34 AM
Musclemag posterboy, they seemd to promote him. If I recall correctly he had a Nissan of Datsun 300z, they used it in a profile about him?


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Title: Re: Bodybuilder's - The Stripped Unitard
Post by: BayGBM on July 23, 2024, 11:55:08 AM
Musclemag posterboy, they seemd to promote him. If I recall correctly he had a Nissan of Datsun 300z, they used it in a profile about him?

In fairness that was a cool car for about 5 minutes.  When I was in high school everyone wanted one.