Throwback Thursday: lederhosen? #TBT

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It's Thursday!

I don't exactly know where I am going with today´s #TBT but here it goes. Back in December of 1978, my parents took me and my sister for a 3 or so week vacation to California and Florida. Both these places are hot; Iceland not even warm. I must not have had very many shorts, which makes sense, I was living in Iceland after all, but at least I had these super sporty and possibly trendy lederhosen:

For those that don't know: "The term Lederhosen is used in English to refer specifically to the traditional leather breeches worn by men in Southern Germany, Austria, South Tyrol and Slovenia."

Bonus: check out those fabulous colors back in the late 70´s...

Another bonus: also check out my Sea World t-shirt.

Soooo, did you have some favorite shorts or not-so-favorite shorts from back in the day?

Let’s make it a great Thursday!
KGM

[Stephen_Lugton]

Interesting topic today @Kristján Geir Mathiesen !

I had a very bright red pair of shorts with a kiwi logo on them which we bought from New Zealand.  We then moved to the UK and after the summer my shorts got put away in a box in the loft.  Next summer my mum got our summer clothes out and my shorts were too small, I was inconsolable when I found out that we couldn't get kiwis on shorts here, then my cousins came round and gave me some chocolate and I forgot all about it until now.

[Reiner]

Ha, they put me in those “short” leather pants back then, too. They were sturdy, but not very attractive for a child.

[Shawn Stevens]

I had a several pairs of shorts, (not sure what kind), as a kid that had every possible iron on patch to cover the holes. I think they were Hang Ten shorts. 

[John Funk]

WOW! Thinking you need to show up one day at Team 26 in lederhosen @Kristján Geir Mathiesen !!

I didn't wear a lot of shorts when I was young - but they would have been athletic shorts if I did.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Kristján Geir Mathiesen I live in Florida now, so I understand how hot it is here all year round. 

When I was a kid, I know that any pair of jeans that got torn (or that still fit around the waist but were 2 inches too short after a growth spurt) were cut off to become shorts. In the 1970s, no one would be caught dead in jeans with a hole in them!