Gym shorts

Gym shorts, also known as gym shorts, is the name of a short pants, which is mainly used for playing sports, but also gaining increasing since the 1970s as casual wear in importance. Special glossy pants of the 70s, made ​​famous by the footballer Franz Beckenbauer, are sought-after collectors items and sell on internet auctions, with rare specimens can achieve three-digit euro. The colors and patterns of sports clubs - especially football clubs - held pants and t - shirts for fans are sought-after merchandise.

The gym shorts is usually combined with a T- shirt. Mostly they come these days with an incorporated inner brief, those can therefore be worn without underwear. If they are used as swimwear, which is particularly prevalent in the male youth, this is also expected for reasons of hygiene in some bathhouses so - in France only tight-fitting swim briefs are in bathhouses often tolerated. While gym shorts were first mostly made ​​of cotton, they were increasingly made ​​of nylon glazed fabric from the 1970s. Modern gym shorts are mostly made ​​of breathable synthetic mixtures, such as Climalite, Coolmax, Tactel.

Related to the gym shorts are the shorts, the terms are often used interchangeably even. Before competitions, to warm up in cold weather or a sports suit is worn over or in place of gym shorts and associated t-shirt.

For women, girls and boys ( boys but only up to the age of about 10 years ), there were approximately between 1960 and 1990 gym shorts in slip form, although colloquially called the turn Slips, but were listed in the catalog under the name of gym shorts. The material was used initially black Doppelripp and Helanca. We Also there was the gymnastic shirts.