Sports suit
Sports suits ( coaches in Switzerland ) are usually two-piece, casually cut suits that are worn during various sports, especially for warm-up exercises , during breaks from sporting events or during the cold season. They usually consist of long sleeved tops and long pants.
A distinction is made between short gym shorts and long training pants or jogging pants . Often the long training or sweatpants are part of a complete two-piece training or jogging suit. Tracksuits usually consist of a jacket and pants, the material is often nylon or polyester, sometimes with a second layer of fabric inside (lining) made of terrycloth, cotton jersey or mesh. Sports pants are produced by almost all sporting goods manufacturers. Pants from Adidas and Nike are particularly popular . One- piece sports suits are worn by soccer goalkeepers, for example.
The sports trousers usually have a waistband with elastic bands and straps for lacing. There are pants that can be unbuttoned on the side or opened with a zipper , so that you can take them off quickly before a competition without taking off your shoes, so that the competition clothing can be seen. While you wear the long sports shorts to warm up or in cooler weather, you will prefer the short gym shorts at higher temperatures.
species
There are mainly two types of sports suits in this sense:
- Tracksuits (in the true sense of the word) usually consist of a jacket and pants, the material is often nylon in different processing (e.g. nylon jersey or parachute silk), sometimes with a lining made of terrycloth , cotton jersey or mesh. They are cut wide.
- Jogging suits are made of sweatshirt fabric (100% cotton or a highpercentage of cotton ), an absorbent material that absorbs sweat. They usually consist of a sweatshirt or hoodie and pants and are tight-fitting. In addition to the two-piece models, there are now also one-piece jogging suits, they are also called jumpsuits.
Sports suits for special sports that are specially tailored to this sport are usually not generally referred to as sports suits, but more specifically as, for example, kimono (in Japanese martial arts), cycling suits, bathing suits, etc.
history
While sports suits were designed in a more pragmatic manner until the 1970s, the fashionable modification began in the 1970s . Suits made of sturdy, glossy nylon-jersey became established, with a slim cut but not tight, pants tight at the top and flared at the bottom.
The triumphant advance of jogging suits made of sturdy cotton jersey began in the 1980s. The cut was characterized by wide cuts on the one hand and cuffs on the other, namely at the leg and sleeve ends, as well as at the lower end of the sweatshirt and at the neckline. By cuffs tapered pants were in moderate pumping trousers form and blouson-like sweatshirts, overall a rather bulky shape. Sometimes the tops also had hoods ( hoodies ). At the same time, a whole new type of tracksuit was emerging, designed for warming up rather than jogging. They consisted of two layers of fabric: on the outside very light balloon silk (shiny nylon, trilobal ), on the inside a lining made of terrycloth, cotton jersey or mesh.
In the 1990s, tracksuits became more and more out of fashion. Individual combinations of sports trousers and sweatshirts or hooded sweatshirt jackets often took their place. The training jacket almost completely disappeared from sportswear. The sports trousers were able to hold their own in the most varied of variations of the 1970s version, balloon silk trousers and sweatpants.
In the field of bodybuilding culture, new combinations of so-called body pants - very wide, carrot - shaped pants with an extremely wide elastic band at the waistband - and different types of muscle shirts were created . This clothing was sometimes worn outside the fitness scene. Complete suits were unusual in this context.
Sports suits outside of sport
Due to their comfort, the sports suit or its pants are often viewed as ideal leisure clothing. Many also appreciate the casual, sporty look, which at the same time disqualifies them as work clothing for many professions. In large sections of the population, especially in high-culture circles, it is taboo to wear sports pants and suits in public outside of sport. This is seen as proletarian , lacking in class and culture, accurately formulated by Karl Lagerfeld : “Whoever wears jogging pants has lost control of his life.” In schools or at work, therefore, wearing sports suits is generally not permitted. To counteract the trend, some schools have issued dress codes . Analogously, these rules explicitly stipulate the wearing of sportswear (usually short gym shorts and T-shirt ) during physical education : both for health reasons, as it offers enough freedom of movement thanks to a loose fit and has no dangerous buttons or rivets , and for hygienic reasons Reasons, because dry and sweaty clothes have to be put on after sport.
On the other hand, training pants and jogging pants also inspire fashion . After 2010, jeans and chinos with jogging pants also appeared in the fashion industry, and jeans are called jogging jeans. Jogging jeans already existed in the 1980s.
Pop greats like the Spice Girls and Eminem wore sports pants to their concerts. Sometimes - especially in the hip-hop area - a proletarian touch and so-called pimping up to cult is celebrated. The sports suits worn are mostly oversized , i. H. cut too big. In other scenes, on the other hand, classics from the well-known German sporting goods manufacturer from the 1970s have achieved a certain ironic cult factor. The International Day of Jogging Pants, initiated by four Austrian students, has been taking place on January 21st since 2009. In Poland , the jogging suit is both the typical clothing and the namesake of the proletarian youth subculture, the Dresiarze (wearers of jogging suits), which is oriented towards social advancement .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lagerfeld at Markus Lanz, on Wikiquote
- ↑ Can you be a little more exemplary? Clothes make teachers. Blick =, accessed on July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ As an example: discipline in school. (No longer available online.) Ignoranz.ch, archived from the original on November 11, 2013 ; Retrieved July 22, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ As an example: Information brochure from the Schongau school. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 11, 2013 ; Retrieved March 8, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ kuriose-feiertage.de facebook.com/jogginghosentag
- ↑ YT: Dresiarz ściąga dres. In: Newsweek Polska . September 22, 2002, accessed June 5, 2015 (Polish).
