Tracksuit nation

SLUSK

When I came to Ireland I noticed that your sense of fashion left alot to be desired. Huge amounts of people were tracksuits. Sometimes i even see whole families wearing tracksuits. Why do so many people wear tracksuits?

Biggins

Comfort, laziness, washability, affordability, no dress sense, skangers, etc...
One or more of the above - take your pick depending on that you believe - and I suspect you think already!

thomond2006

Tracksuits FTW!

Abi

SLUSK wrote: »

When I came to Ireland I noticed that your sense of fashion left alot to be desired. Huge amounts of people were tracksuits. Sometimes i even see whole families wearing tracksuits. Why do so many people wear tracksuits?

I'm not wearing a track suit. In fact, I'm not wearing anything.


What are you wearing?

IvyTheTerrible

SLUSK wrote: »

When I came to Ireland I noticed that your sense of fashion left alot to be desired. Huge amounts of people were tracksuits. Sometimes i even see whole families wearing tracksuits. Why do so many people wear tracksuits?

What country do you come from? Just, you know, so we can make generalisations about the fashion sense where you come from.

Gone Drinking

Abigayle wrote: »

In fact, I'm not wearing anything.

/boner

hal9000

Because we're all so active and like to be able to hit the track at a moments notice!

TheZohanS

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

What country do you come from? Just, you know, so we can make generalisations about the fashion sense where you come from.

He comes from Sweden. By his own admission he is an unemployed obese man living off his mother and father in their home.

SLUSK

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

What country do you come from? Just, you know, so we can make generalisations about the fashion sense where you come from.

From Sweden, normal Swedish men look like this.
http://mildatilda.blogg.se/images/2007/stockholmmedmera_056_1185928495_4333934.jpg

IvyTheTerrible

SLUSK wrote: »

From Sweden, normal Swedish men look like this.
http://mildatilda.blogg.se/images/2007/stockholmmedmera_056_1185928495_4333934.jpg

Gay?

starflake

Wearing Tracksuits makes it easier to Hop peoples back garden fences, Inject heroin, Shop lift, run from the guards, can still be worn while pregnant... Just makes good sense

TheZohanS

SLUSK wrote: »

When I came to Ireland I noticed that your sense of fashion left alot to be desired. Huge amounts of people were tracksuits. Sometimes i even see whole families wearing tracksuits. Why do so many people wear tracksuits?

Banned for trolling

happyfriday

Us Irish and our terrible dress sense, we should get Gok over here to sort this tracksuit wearing nation out, every last one of us!!! Every where I go people are wearing them, in the office and all of them just wearing their tracksuits like they were at the gym!! :rolleyes:

Armin_Tamzarian

SLUSK wrote: »

When I came to Ireland I noticed that your sense of fashion left alot to be desired. Huge amounts of people were tracksuits. Sometimes i even see whole families wearing tracksuits. Why do so many people wear tracksuits?

Meh, your English leaves alot to be desired.

Hogzy

Bit of upskirt in the background of that pic, i like sweden!

Jumpy

TheZohan wrote: »

Banned for trolling

I actually thought that was a mod edit and you were banned for a second.

cherryghost

Gone Drinking wrote: »

/boner

you're ending your boner because of that?

I.S.T.

SLUSK wrote: »

Why do so many people wear tracksuits?

Exactly what I was thinking when watching the Stephen Gately funeral. I thought it was product placement for Nike!

mise23

Used to live in Dublin (thank God I don't live there anymore). Regularly saw women walking around in pyjamas in the middle of the day, wtf. Definitely not a good look.

AnonoBoy

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Meh, your English leaves alot to be desired.

No. The OP is literally pointing out that "Huge amounts of people were tracksuits" and he's absolutely correct.

I myself existed as a tracksuit for a brief period in the nineties.

JonThom

So. Many. Athletes.

Mimikyu

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Aidric

If Ben Stiller had been wearing a tracksuit instead of a pants in 'There's Something About Mary', he could have avoided that nasty zipper incident. Just goes to show.

Prof.Badass

AnonoBoy wrote: »

No. The OP is literally pointing out that "Huge amounts of people were tracksuits" and he's absolutely correct.

I myself existed as a tracksuit for a brief period in the nineties.

:eek:

Did you get worn out ?

sexmag

Ye i know,i was in this place this morning where i work out and they were just everywhere...Its a pandemic and it looked like they where all training for some sort of invasion:D

mega man

students have to be the worst for manky tracksuits.
the male student, in his fear of being mistaken for a skanger wears a ridiculous combination of a tracksuit which resmbles something a woman would wear (no offence)...

00112984

London 2012- in case there are any leftover grants going spare.

happyfriday

00112984 wrote: »

London 2012- in case there are any leftover grants going spare.

Oh that made me giggle like a school girl!!

Jesus Juice

AnonoBoy wrote: »

No. The OP is literally pointing out that "Huge amounts of people were tracksuits" and he's absolutely correct.

I myself existed as a tracksuit for a brief period in the nineties.

So were you a classic Reebok or Adidas?

Riddle101

Abigayle wrote: »

I'm not wearing a track suit. In fact, I'm not wearing anything.


What are you wearing?

I can't believe nobody has said Pics or GTFO yet

Anyway I only really wear tracksuits when exercising. I'm too Americanised:(

Gone Drinking

cherryghost wrote: »

you're ending your boner because of that?

I don't take long..

AnonoBoy

Jesus Juice wrote: »

So were you a classic Reebok or Adidas?

I was Fila myself.

The Beastie Boys wore me on the Ill Communication tour.

Jesus Juice

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I was Fila myself.

The Beastie Boys wore me on the Ill Communication tour.

I was Classic Reebok-blue with the bright green logo on the front.

I was worn by a skanger in Cork:(

Armin_Tamzarian

Does anyone remember the Liverpool inspired male fashion trend in Tallaght in the mid '80s?

Shell tracksuits, perms (yes perms) and dodgy tashes :eek:
Oh the humanity...

caseyann

What are you talking about op I have barely seen a girl wearing a tracksuit since 1990 You must have been in the ghettos

stovelid

Jesus Juice wrote: »

So were you a classic Adidas?

Can't beat the old Beckenbauer type trackie bottoms for walking/lazing round the house. I even wear them if I'm driving to the shop or going out for a stroll. I like the old classic Adidas trackie tops too, like the Firebird and so on.

It's only dodgy when you start wearing them to the pub, into town or anywhere outside a local context. Wearing a full trackie unless you're out for a jog or playing ball is a tiny bit dodge (imo) too.

And anyway, you see hordes of middle-class Tango ladies and rugby types in what is basically "leisure wear" all over Dublin and nobody bats an eyelid.

Tar.Aldarion

Abigayle wrote: »

I'm not wearing a track suit. In fact, I'm not wearing anything.


What are you wearing?

'abigayle posts she's wearing nothing and I jizz in my pants'

caseyann

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Does anyone remember the Liverpool inspired male fashion trend in Tallaght in the mid '80s?

Shell tracksuits, perms (yes perms) and dodgy tashes :eek:
Oh the humanity...

That wasnt just tallaght it was finglas ballymun coolock in fact it was everywhere yuck i hated it Thank god i marched to beat of my own drum and still do :P lol

Dudess

My shellsuit, which I got in 1990, was navy and pinky purple. Then I got a turquoise one. Thought I was the ****ing bomb. Actually the navy one wasn't too bad - the bottoms were pretty cool.

Aidric wrote: »

If Ben Stiller had been wearing a tracksuit instead of a pants in 'There's Something About Mary', he could have avoided that nasty zipper incident. Just goes to show.

He learned his lesson - seen The Royal Tannenbaums?

stovelid

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Does anyone remember the Liverpool inspired male fashion trend in Tallaght in the mid '80s?

No?

Well, not the perms anyway.

tallaght01

Don't hate on the tracksuits. Wearing one now. If I'm not in work, and I'm not out at a social even I'm wearing a tracksuit or shorts.

Slag them all you want, but no other clothing offers the kind of ball jiggling versatility that my fookin huge white shiny trackie does

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

And anyway, you see hordes of middle-class Tango ladies and rugby types in what is basically "leisure wear" all over Dublin and nobody bats an eyelid.

They wear trackies too - those velour ones with stuff written across the arse. I have to say I do bat an eyelid - scrunch up my eyes with pain actually - when they start talking.

Smart Bug

Dudess wrote: »

They wear trackies too - those velour ones with stuff written across the arse. I have to say I do bat an eyelid - scrunch up my eyes with pain actually - when they start talking.

When I see them I bat something else...

caseyann

Dudess wrote: »

My shellsuit, which I got in 1990, was navy and pinky purple. Then I got a turquoise one. Thought I was the ****ing bomb. Actually the navy one wasn't too bad - the bottoms were pretty cool.

He learned his lesson - seen The Royal Tannenbaums?

http://lovemagick.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/dsc01160.jpg

I think got a little worse when the bf gf thing happened and they wore matching one lmao :eek::D

Stercus Accidit

OP it is the lower classes that wear tracksuits, they are like prison jumpsuits, bright and colourful to warn passers by of the wearers poor morals, low intelligence and penchant for violence, and the light fabric is designed so as not to reduce the impact of a constables baton.

caseyann

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

OP it is the lower classes that wear tracksuits, they are like prison jumpsuits, bright and colourful to warn passers by of the wearers poor morals, low intelligence and penchant for violence, and the light fabric is designed so as not to reduce the impact of a constables baton.

Lmao

Dudess

I'm a bit bemused by how some people look back at the early '90s and only associate shellsuits with "skangers". They were worn by anyone, possibly including by those who now associate them with skangers.

stovelid

I feel a shell suit nostalgia moment coming on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU0-fmKI0lU

caseyann

Dudess wrote: »

I'm a bit bemused by how some people look back at the early '90s and only associate shellsuits with "skangers". They were worn by anyone, possibly including by those who now associate them with skangers.

I honestly never liked them fashion wise.But definitely once the junkies starting wearing them and everyone else,they became fashion horror movie

Attack of the shell suits :eek:

Stercus Accidit

Dudess wrote: »

I'm a bit bemused by how some people look back at the early '90s and only associate shellsuits with "skangers". They were worn by anyone, possibly including by those who now associate them with skangers.

Sure I used to have a shaved head and chains, and always wore a tracky top, jeans and runners.

But that was because I was a culchie new in dublin, we wore that sh1te to be fashionable

Davidius

I never really understood those crazy people whose basis for disliking certain clothes was because they were 'unfashionable'.

That's not even a real reason!