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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Where Have All the Wind Suits Gone?
Sitting at the office today, I was reading up on some audit that we are having in the upcoming months, when all of the sudden one of my co-workers walked by with a wind suit jacket on. I looked and admired the jacket since I hadn't seen one since elementary school. Then I thought to myself, Where have all the wind suits gone? Probably the same place all the cowboys went in Paula Cole's smash hit in 1998, Where Have All the Cowboys Gone. So, I did a little research on the issue, and found this: http://www.complaints.com/january2002/complaintoftheday.january23.2.htm. Apparently the wind suits had bad zippers so they are hanging in everyone's closet now. The mystery of where the wind suits are is now resolved. I want to propose something, if you have a wind suit in your closet then you should break it out for the day. Maybe take a little jog or get groceries in it, or even sport it to the workplace or class. You might be able to find your old Reebok pumps while you are at it. I would like some feedback on this too. How many wind suits did you have? And please give the description of your favorite. I had three at the peak of my wind suit career, and my favorite was a royal blue one with a black, teal, and neon orange triangle on the front.
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I had at least two windsuits back in the day. My favorite (sheding a tear as I fondly remember how much better I was in P.E. on a windsuit day than on a normal day) was a black suit, which had neon yellow, neon green, and red blocks and triangles.
- DW
That is so true, I couldn't agree with weems more. Windsuit days allowed the free movement necessary to hurl platoon balls at the opposing team with the least resistance. My favorite was black with green red and purlple patches on the front. it was so ugly but it made me feel so cool....those were the days.
~markus
actually, I think the zipper problem was actually not the reason for the downfall of the windsuit. Instead I think it had to do a little more with this...Windsuits are truly atrocious! They are unflattering on everyone, even when they are jogging, let alone Out to Lunch/At the Supermarket/Dans a Graduate School Seminar/or even P.E. And the horrid nylon variety which make that horrible, distracting "swish-swish" noise every time one moves? Ugh! The bottomline is that the windsuit itself seems to have led to its own downfall.
BRING BACK THE WINDSUIT!
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