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post #1 of 33
2/27/08 at 2:50pm
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Zubaz are back, baby!

Does Starter still make those huge team logo jackets? For the discerning sports fan, there is no greater ensemble than the Starter-Zubaz combo.
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post #2 of 33
2/27/08 at 2:51pm
Zubaz never went away in Chicago. Sadly I see them all the time, at Bears games particularly.
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post #3 of 33
2/27/08 at 2:53pm
The starter jackets I remember (and loved), but these pants must have missed Canada. My only knowledge of them comes from Dr. Cox's workout pants on Scrubs. That they existed as a trend...frightful.
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post #4 of 33
2/27/08 at 2:58pm
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Did you get the Hypercolor trend up in Canada? Shirts that tell everyone when you're sweaty!
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post #5 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:04pm
Oh man...I don't know. I do remember have an amazing lime green neon hat in the 4th grade. That thing was BRIGHT.
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post #6 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:04pm
Rockford, IL, represent!
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post #7 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:10pm
Starter jackets? Cool. Coke shirts? Cool. Hypercolor shirts? Cool. Zubaz pants? Uncool. Always were, always will be. That is all you need to know.

Parachute pants? I'm open to discussion as to whether cool or uncool.
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post #8 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:11pm
Even better was that we were too poor when I was a kid so my grandma made me homemade zubaz that I was forced to wear.

I fucking hated them.
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post #9 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:29pm
I'd probably still have my Zubaz, but as I aged, my waistline outgrew them.
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post #10 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:29pm
Man, I loved my Zubaz when I was in elementary school. Zubaz pants all winter, eerily short Umbro shorts all summer.

As an aside, can anyone explain why Zubaz pants never went out of style for serious weightlifters?
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post #11 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:34pm
Hahaha, Umbros. I remember when I used to think they were the coolest things ever.
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post #12 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:38pm
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Originally Posted by The LD View Post
As an aside, can anyone explain why Zubaz pants never went out of style for serious weightlifters?
Why you so worried about fashion, Nancy-boy? You goin' to a tea party next?

My parents own matching Packers zubas. They think it's funny. I pray that they don't leave the house in them.
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post #13 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:42pm
Okay, I went to the Zubaz website, and I guess that they are no longer offcially licensed. I know the ones I owned had little team logos embroidered on them, these resurrected Zubaz seem to be generic. Disappointing.
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post #14 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:44pm
I've had a pair of these bad boys slinking around the deep, dark recesses of my closet, lo, these many years. Finally, their time has come 'round at last. It's the end of days, boys and girls, the end of days.
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post #15 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:44pm
You have a problem with tea parties? Although with the Nancy-boy comment, I think T-dance would be more appropriate.

As far as
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can anyone explain why Zubaz pants never went out of style for serious weightlifters?
Has everything to do with the reason why Zubaz pants have always been uncool.
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post #16 of 33
2/27/08 at 3:57pm
I asked one of the girls in my office who's from Chicago about these. She says they're very popular amongst "over weight mustached men"
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post #17 of 33
2/27/08 at 4:01pm
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Originally Posted by Tieman View Post
I asked one of the girls in my office who's from Chicago about these. She says they're very popular amongst "over weight mustached men"
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post #18 of 33
2/27/08 at 4:12pm
No. Those are sweatpants. Carl's too poor to own Zubaz.
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post #19 of 33
2/27/08 at 4:17pm
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post #20 of 33
2/27/08 at 4:19pm
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Originally Posted by MissZooey View Post
No. Those are sweatpants. Carl's too poor to own Zubaz.
His laser defense grid says otherwise. Plus, he's a home owner.
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post #21 of 33
2/27/08 at 4:22pm
Well, Zooey...it would appear that you got served. Let this be a lesson to you, next time you get the urge to call me a Nancy-boy.
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post #22 of 33
2/27/08 at 4:24pm
You gonna cry now, Priscilla? Huh? You gonna cry?





(This is much funnier if you know that The LD is over a foot taller than me. I'm fairly certain that he could one-chomp me.)
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post #23 of 33
2/27/08 at 4:26pm
Oh, I've been crying. There's mascara all over this important legal document I'm reading. You've ruined everything!
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post #24 of 33
2/27/08 at 4:31pm
Then my work here is done. I'm off to go steal social security checks from old ladies.
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post #25 of 33
2/27/08 at 4:33pm
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Originally Posted by rabigjb View Post
I'd probably still have my Zubaz, but as I aged, my waistline outgrew them.
Didn't Zubaz pants have super expandable waistlines?

And you crazy kids can keep your Hypercolor shirts and Umbro shorts. Bah, who needs 'em? They just can't match up to my neon yellow converse All-Stars showing underneath my tight-rolled Guess jeans.
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post #26 of 33
2/27/08 at 4:42pm
Zubaz pants are very important. They let you know which men to avoid like the plague. Not that the mullet doesn't give you that clue first, but then as your eyes pan downward to the bottom half...
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post #27 of 33
2/27/08 at 4:50pm
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Originally Posted by LisaNY View Post
Zubaz pants are very important. They let you know which men to avoid like the plague. Not that the mullet doesn't give you that clue first, but then as your eyes pan downward to the bottom half...
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post #28 of 33
2/27/08 at 5:31pm
Oh god, rab, I can't unsee that kind of shit.
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post #29 of 33
2/28/08 at 12:17am
Oh Ghod I hate to say it. I had some orange tiger striped Zubaz back then. I never was cool so it didn't much matter.
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post #30 of 33
2/28/08 at 1:06am
Why'd you go and do that, Rab? Huh? Why?
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post #31 of 33
2/28/08 at 3:54am
I had a pair of purple and pink Zubaz in the second grade.

I would blame my mom, but I explicitly remember asking, perhaps begging, for them.

Second gade me should've been shot. If I ever get a time machine, I'm taking that little bastard and his "TONGA" Trapper Keeper out of the picture for good.
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post #32 of 33
2/28/08 at 3:58pm
The existence of such an article of clothing proves that it is indeed Azathoth that rules the universe. They seem to come from an intelligence more cunning and cruel than a simple human.

People wear these? Seriously. Like out in the open?
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post #33 of 33
2/28/08 at 9:30pm
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
The existence of such an article of clothing proves that it is indeed Azathoth that rules the universe. They seem to come from an intelligence more cunning and cruel than a simple human.

People wear these? Seriously. Like out in the open?
These days it's more of a semi-ironic thing with sports fans. I suppose you'll still find the occasional gloriously unaware person that thinks they fucking rule, but on the whole their time as a serious fashion trend has passed.

The early 90's, however.....That was something beyond description.
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