CarrollBlog 7.21
The evolution of today's baggy surf/swim trunks, as told by Greg Noll in THE ART OF THE SURFBOARD by Drew Kampion:
"So what happened at Manhattan Beach is someone like Barney Briggs or Velzy started going to the Salvation Army to buy their clothes, because you could get an overcoat or Army surplus stuff for 25 cents. Well they started buying white sailor pants and cutting them off above the knees and started surfing in them. And that caught on, and pretty soon everyone was doing it. At some point somebody got the idea to see who could live in those cutoff sailor pants the longest, without taking them off or washing them. There were rules to this deal. You could only drop the shorts to your knees to take a crap, or to your ankles to screw your girlfriend. Otherwise they stayed on and whoever kept them on the longest won.
"Anyway, these things got to be the standard surf attire for the guys in the South Bay..."
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