06-28-2008, 02:54 PM
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| I wore one for a while. Too difficult to get out of to go to the bathroom, especially when I was sweaty, and very unforgiving in torso length. My unitard was also slightly translucent and my polka-dot underwear was evident. Otherwise it was good--easy to move in.
Most of the people who disparage them are exceedingly sensitive fashion-wise and would quiver in horror at anything that smacked of nerdiness, lack of fencing fashion sense, or unwillingness to go for the kilt-like sagging bloomers required for a Man to be a Man in the U.S. these days. Perhaps the 70s will again be retro-fashionable and a glimpse of tight trousers won't cause nervous shock in males in my lifetime, but I'm not holding my breath.
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06-28-2008, 05:02 PM
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| I'll have you know our pants don't sag on purpose, it's just the cloth they're made of these days is disproportionately affected by gravity. We're blameless, really. | |
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06-28-2008, 05:13 PM
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| Mine don't sag at all. They're far too skinny to move down, so they work themselves up. Plus with them being cut for a women, I kinda, have to wear them low.
Would it help the unitard if they added a zippered flap so that you can go to the restroom, or would that just make it look even worse?
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06-28-2008, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by telkanuru  I'll have you know our pants don't sag on purpose, it's just the cloth they're made of these days is disproportionately affected by gravity. We're blameless, really. | Nah, it's that you're lighter than air and you're floating upwards out of'em. Ah, for the old days of gentlemen with gravitas.
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06-28-2008, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Peach Nah, it's that you're lighter than air and you're floating upwards out of'em. Ah, for the old days of gentlemen with gravitas. | And five course meals!
And Brandy after dinner!
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06-28-2008, 09:08 PM
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Most of the people who disparage them are exceedingly sensitive fashion-wise and would quiver in horror at anything that smacked of nerdiness, lack of fencing fashion sense...
| You do realize that you're talking to fencers here... Right???
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06-28-2008, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by seven6ty You do realize that you're talking to fencers here... Right??? | Yes, and it's pretty amusing--we can be MOST supercilious about anything that reeks to us of nerdiness or unfashionableness, when we are dressed as the ultimate nerds. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Allen Evans And five course meals!
And Brandy after dinner!
And heart attacks by 50! | Well, I meant to pun on "gravity" with "gravitas," which though it shares the etymology from Latin of "weight" actually means seriousness.
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06-28-2008, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Peach Yes, and it's pretty amusing--we can be MOST supercilious about anything that reeks to us of nerdiness or unfashionableness, when we are dressed as the ultimate nerds.
Well, I meant to pun on "gravity" with "gravitas," which though it shares the etymology from Latin of "weight" actually means seriousness. | (laughing) I'm pretty aware of what the word means, but I thought that gravitas--as a quality of personality--really dates from an earlier age. Hence my references.
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06-28-2008, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Allen Evans (laughing) I'm pretty aware of what the word means, but I thought that gravitas--as a quality of personality--really dates from an earlier age. Hence my references.
AE | Ah--got you. Well, I have barely refrained from mentioning Miss Manners in conjunction with some of the threads in Fencing Discussion, so I think I may be a tad Victorian myself.
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06-29-2008, 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Peach Well, I have barely refrained from mentioning Miss Manners in conjunction with some of the threads in Fencing Discussion, | I agree. It's got rather out of hand lately. I think a few people who would benefit from learning a few manners.
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06-29-2008, 02:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Peach Nah, it's that you're lighter than air and you're floating upwards out of'em. Ah, for the old days of gentlemen with gravitas. | I'll bring back the concept of gravitas if you want to bring back the tradition of pater familias.
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06-29-2008, 03:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Pescados666 Would it help the unitard if they added a zippered flap so that you can go to the restroom, or would that just make it look even worse? | Very probably, yeah... 
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06-29-2008, 06:04 AM
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Originally Posted by telkanuru I'll bring back the concept of gravitas if you want to bring back the tradition of pater familias.
Deal? | I ain't bringing back the entire era, just the Latin tags, so I'll see your pater familias and raise you memento mori
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06-29-2008, 06:09 AM
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06-29-2008, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by telkanuru Nice edit, I assume because you looked it up | Nah, I bit my tongue and changed my tack because I was being too saucy with a young'un  . I took Latin in 7th grade, was sufficiently miseducated that Latin tags are part of my vague general knowledge, and " Memento Mori in Middle School" is one of the poems I read to my kids (poem in terza rima with the premise that middle school is, in fact, hell.)
I confess to (more often than not) editing my posts immediately after posting them because I'm too quick to click. I have edited this post twice already. O tempore! O mores!
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06-29-2008, 02:03 PM
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| [quote=Peach;703210]I wore one for a while. Too difficult to get out of to go to the bathroom, especially when I was sweaty, and very unforgiving in torso length. My unitard was also slightly translucent and my polka-dot underwear was evident. Otherwise it was good--easy to move in.
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Add a long johns flap. Zippered of course.
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06-30-2008, 03:46 AM
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| [quote=fencerbill;703550] Quote:
Originally Posted by Peach I wore one for a while. Too difficult to get out of to go to the bathroom, especially when I was sweaty, and very unforgiving in torso length. My unitard was also slightly translucent and my polka-dot underwear was evident. Otherwise it was good--easy to move in.
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Add a long johns flap. Zippered of course. | One that opens at the most inappropriate of times. Like the finals bout.
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06-30-2008, 06:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Nolano One that opens at the most inappropriate of times. Like the finals bout. | I think that calls for velcro...
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06-30-2008, 06:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Nolanol
One that opens at the most inappropriate of times. Like the finals bout.
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