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Hi! I’m 15 and my team is about to have a vote to decide if we get to run in shorts or bikini-type bunhugger briefs. Whichever we choose will be mandatory for practice and all meets for two years. Currently we run in shorts but many of the girls are getting behind the bunhuggers. They say they’re more comfortable but to me they look too skimpy. How should I vote?

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Hi! I’m 15 and my team is about to have a vote to decide if we get to run in shorts or bikini-type bunhugger briefs. Whichever we choose will be mandatory for practice and all meets for two years. Currently we run in shorts but many of the girls are getting behind the bunhuggers. They say they’re more comfortable but to me they look too skimpy. How should I vote?

Assuming you mean a high school team, be aware that a team was disqualified a few years ago in FL for wearing briefs at the state meet. "Inappropriate attire".

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Embee, I’m not going to suggest one or the other. Consider the options and vote whichever way *your* informed perspective on the matter dictates, knowing that ultimately you’ll have to go with the majority. There’s no need for everyone to vote the same way. Of course, I don’t know how important it is for you to be on the same wavelength as the other girls on this question. Cheers, Daniel – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi! I’m 15 and my team is about to have a vote to decide if we get to run in shorts or bikini-type bunhugger briefs. Whichever we choose will be mandatory for practice and all meets for two years. Currently we run in shorts but many of the girls are getting behind the bunhuggers. They say they’re more comfortable but to me they look too skimpy. How should I vote?

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Tights tights tights!  Forget the shorts, tights keep the muscles nice and cosy! Andrea

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Assuming you mean a high school team, be aware that a team was disqualified a few years ago in FL for wearing briefs at the state meet. "Inappropriate attire".

Ah, so?  Interesting!  Yet, it has been fully acceptable in girls’ high school volleyball for close to a decade?  Is there a difference in appropriateness? Mary

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Assuming you mean a high school team, be aware that a team was disqualified a few years ago in FL for wearing briefs at the state meet. "Inappropriate attire". Ah, so?  Interesting!  Yet, it has been fully acceptable in girls’ high school volleyball for close to a decade?  Is there a difference in

appropriateness? I think that to most, it was a mysterious decision. But it stuck.

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Why would they be mandatory for practice?  I bet the boys team has something to do with that one… -jeff

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I don’t think she’s talking about tights.  I think she’s talking about the underwear looking things a lot of girls race in.  I could see racing in them, but practicing in those things might be a bit much – not to mention discouraging heavier runners from going out for the team. -jeff

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Except for those (ahem) larger women. Yikes! Tights tights tights!  Forget the shorts, tights keep the muscles nice and cosy! Andrea

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As a member of the guys team that would often be out to support the girls’ team I put full emphasis on the necessity of the briefs…In practise too!   Sean Chester Vancouver Island, Canada NB.  Now…let’s discuss the team’s tops… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi! I’m 15 and my team is about to have a vote to decide if we get to run in shorts or bikini-type bunhugger briefs. Whichever we choose will be mandatory for practice and all meets for two years. Currently we run in shorts but many of the girls are getting behind the bunhuggers. They say they’re more comfortable but to me they look too skimpy. How should I vote?

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shorts or bikini-type bunhugger briefs. Whichever we choose will be mandatory for practice and all meets for two years.

Why would they be mandatory for practice?  I’ve never seen anyone wear bunhuggers for practice.  For that matter, I’ve never seen any high school team train in their racing outfits except for team warmups maybe. Currently we run in shorts but many of the girls are getting behind the bunhuggers. They say they’re more comfortable but to me they look too skimpy. How should I vote?

I’m a guy so I don’t mind the look much, though not everyone looks good in them.  I wouldn’t want to wear them if I was a girl though; I’m the kind of guy who keeps his shirt on in hot weather.  If you feel that they look too skimpy, you’re not the only one.  Marion Jones, in her biography, states that she has never worn and refuses to wear bunhuggers and I applaud her being so sure of herself.  She wears the bike short type of running pants.  My friend’s university team is getting new uniforms and she’s stubbornly against getting the bunhuggers and says that she’ll refuse to wear them although others on the team want them.  Anyways, it doesn’t seem like it would be fair to leave it to a simple majority rule vote if there are some girls who absolutely don’t feel comfortable wearing them, though I can see them caving in to peer pressure.  An alternative, that may or may not work depending on your school and local h.s. federation rules, would be to allow a choice between bunhuggers and shorts or bike shorts, like how the U.S. international team members have a choice of different types of team racing suits that still match.  If you really feel that they are too skimpy, it’s o.k to be stubborn about it and speak your mind in addition to placing your vote. Andrew

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No kidding! I thought they banned those things in the early 80s! We had them for gym and this is why we hated gym! Jenn – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I don’t think she’s talking about tights.  I think she’s talking about the underwear looking things a lot of girls race in.  I could see racing in them, but practicing in those things might be a bit much – not to mention discouraging heavier runners from going out for the team. -jeff Tights tights tights!  Forget the shorts, tights keep the muscles nice and cosy! Andrea

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And no chafing! Unless you are all very thin, you may have problems with your thighs brushing together. I will second tights- short or long! Jenn – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Tights tights tights!  Forget the shorts, tights keep the muscles nice and cosy! Andrea

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I will second tights- short or long!

Yup — winter or summer I love my tights! Andrea

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It seems to me I heard somewhere that JB wrote in article No kidding! I thought they banned those things in the early 80s! We had them for gym and this is why we hated gym! I don’t think she’s talking about tights.  I think she’s talking about the underwear looking things a lot of girls race in.  I could see racing in them, but practicing in those things might be a bit much – not to mention discouraging heavier runners from going out for the team. Tights tights tights!  Forget the shorts, tights keep the muscles nice and cosy!

AFAIK high school girls have always hated gym; only the reasons seem to change.   — Don

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I think you should not only vote for shorts (since that’s what you indicated you preferred), but also talk to the coach about how you think the bunhuggers are too skimpy.  Personally,  I’m sure that wearing bunhuggers would have distracted me from my running in high school– worrying that if I looked too good, guys would be drooling, and if I didn’t look good in them, people would be laughing.  On a different note, I find it funny that Marion Jones refuses to wear bunhuggers, but would pose nude for an ad. Darcy

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I would check with you high school rules.  Some ban the bunhuggers (a school in FL a few years ago lost the state title because they were wearing the bunhuggers and were against the rules). Sounds like you have already made your decision.

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I would check with you high school rules.  Some ban the bunhuggers (a school in FL a few years ago lost the state title because they were wearing the bunhuggers and were against the rules).

It should be mentioned that the coach in question was warned *before* the race that they were prohibited, didn’t tell the girls or their parents, and let them wear them anyway. Mike Tennent "IronPenguin" Ironman Canada ‘98 Great Floridian ‘99, ‘00

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I would check with you high school rules.  Some ban the bunhuggers (a school in FL a few years ago lost the state title because they were wearing the bunhuggers and were against the rules).

I tried to look up this word in my Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, but didn’t find it. Could some kind soul explain a German, what a bunhugger is? (Some kind of shorts?) Cheers, Rudiger

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Rudiger, Here my take on it: Buns = buttocks Hugger = something that hugs Briefs are tight, so they hug the buns Daniel – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I would check with you high school rules.  Some ban the bunhuggers (a school in FL a few years ago lost the state title because they were wearing the bunhuggers and were against the rules). I tried to look up this word in my Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, but didn’t find it. Could some kind soul explain a German, what a bunhugger is? (Some kind of shorts?) Cheers, Rudiger

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