02-21-2005, 09:52 AM
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Easy Rider
Location: Moscow on the Ohio
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Originally Posted by Lockjaw
I have to disagree. Go to any major city and it won't be long before you see a bunch of young kids in NBA gear especially in the summer time. Basketball shorts are practically as common as blue jeans around my parts from June until September.
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If I recall though the baggy shorts fad started on the streets and later the college teams. As I remember wasn't it the Michigan Fab Five with Chris Webber etc..that wore them first on national TV and didn't the NBA resist this fashion at first?
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But the most dramatic change came in the early 1990s, Wahl says. Michigan, which had one of the top basketball programs in the country, recruited the nation’s top five freshmen.
“Suddenly, hemlines started falling, and they started wearing huge, long shorts,” Wahl says of the Fab Five, as the Michigan players came to be known.
Wahl and Nike’s product line manager, Matthew Park, agree that these players helped revolutionize not only the uniforms, but the image of college basketball. Future basketball stars grew up imitating these players’ confrontational attitudes on the court, along with their baggy shorts and black socks and sneakers.
Other college basketball teams adopted the fashion, which mirrored mainstream fashion of the time, where hip-hop music was influencing young people to wear extremely baggy styles.
“It started in the streets as an urban kind of uniform, was made popular through music, and made its way to the courts,” says Annet Couwenberg, chairwoman of the Fiber Department at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Park agrees, but adds that the influence works both ways. “Rappers want to be ball players, and ball players want to be rappers,” he says.Uniforms
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