Tracksuit

Sports clothes ( in Switzerland coach ) are typically two-piece, relaxed -fitting suits that are worn on different sports, especially to warm-up exercises, breaks in sporting events or in the cold season. They usually consist of long-sleeved tops and long pants.

A distinction is made between short gym shorts and long sweat pants or jogging pants. Often, the long training or sweatpants part of a complete two-part training or Jogginganzugs. Track suits are usually made of jacket and pants, the material is often nylon, sometimes with a second layer of fabric inside (lining) of terry cloth, cotton jersey or mesh fabric. Athletic shorts are produced by almost all manufacturers of sporting goods. Widely used are mainly the pants brands Adidas and Nike.

The sports pants usually has a waistband with elastic and ribbon for lacing. There are pants that you can unbutton the side or open with a zipper, so you can take them off quickly before a competition to take off without the shoes, so the competition clothing is revealed. While wearing the long trousers, for warm-up or when the cooler weather, you will prefer the short gym shorts at higher temperatures.

Species

There are mainly two kinds of sports suits in this sense:

• Tracksuits ( proper) usually consist of jacket and pants, the material is often nylon, sometimes lined with a terry cloth, cotton jersey or mesh fabric. They are cut wide.
• Jogging suits are made of sweatshirt material (100 % cotton or high cotton content ), ie an absorbent material for receiving the sweat. They usually consist of sweatshirt and pants and tight-fitting.

Sports clothes special sports that are specifically designed for this sport are not generally usually referred to as a sports suits, but more specific than, for example kimono ( in Japanese martial arts ), cycling suit, swimsuit etc.

History

While up to the 1970s sport suits were designed more pragmatic, began the modification fashionable in the 70s. Suits of solid luster nylon jersey became established, around the top slim fit, but not tight, the pants tight top, bottom with shock.

In the 1980s, the triumph of the Jogginganzugs of solid cotton jersey began. The cut was marked by wide sections on the one hand and on the other hand cuffs, namely the leg and sleeve ends, and at the bottom of the sweatshirt and neckline. Through the cuffs to trousers were in moderate pumping pants and blouson shape like sweatshirts, overall a rather bulky shape. Sometimes the tops also had hood ( Hoodie ). At the same time, a whole new kind of tracksuits that were designed more for heating than for jogging established. They consisted of two layers of fabric: Outer very light balloon silk ( shiny nylon, Trilobal ), inside a lining made of terry cloth, cotton jersey or mesh fabric.

In the 1990s, tracksuits came more and more out of fashion. Individual combinations of athletic shorts and a sweatshirt or hooded sweatshirt jacket often took their place. The training jacket disappeared almost completely from the sportswear. The sports pants could hold in a variety of modifications of the 70s version, the balloon silk pants and sweatpants.

In the field of bodybuilding culture, new combinations of so-called Body trousers emerged - very wide trousers Tapered with an extremely wide elastic waistband - and muscle shirts of various kinds This clothing was partially supported beyond the fitness scene. Complete suits were unusual in this context.

Sports clothes outside of sports

Due to its convenience of sports suit and his pants is often regarded as an ideal leisure wear. Many also appreciate the casual, sporty look what they disqualified but at the same time for many professions as workwear. In large sections of the population, especially in circles of high cultural milieu, it is considered taboo to wear sports pants and suits beyond sports in public. This is considered a proletarian, level and uncultured, accurately formulated by Karl Lagerfeld. " Who wears sweatpants, lost control of his life ' in schools or at work wearing tracksuits, therefore, is generally regarded as inadmissible. To counteract this trend, schools have partially adopted dress codes. These rules require analog wearing sports clothes (usually short gym shorts and T -shirt) during physical education explicitly before: both for health reasons, since it thanks to a loose seat offers enough freedom of movement and has no hazardous buttons or rivets, as well as hygienic reasons, since after sport dry and non- sweaty clothes need to be tightened again.

Pop stars such as the Spice Girls and Eminem wore Images Sport Pants at their concerts. A proletarian Touch and the so-called Pimping deliberately celebrated down to the cult - Partial is - especially in the hip- hop field. The case worn sports suits are usually oversized, that is cut too large. In other scenes, however, classic 70 with the well known sporting goods manufacturers have reached a certain irony -tinged cult factor.