Show US Your Loud Wetsuit?

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OG SUP
OG SUP
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4 Jun 2011 10:28pm
Well took this shot at OG today and almost burned my retinas out.

Wondering who else has an 80's or extremely loud suit kicking around?

Phill

gregc
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4 Jun 2011 10:34pm
bring back colour I say, we have spent too much time being boring in black.
Bnaccas
Bnaccas
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4 Jun 2011 10:40pm
Did someone tell him it looks inside out or was it a joke at the time?
Terrible!
rps
rps
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4 Jun 2011 10:56pm
Love it!

Colour brightens my day

ALsUP
ALsUP
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4 Jun 2011 11:03pm
Still got this one in the cupboard for special occasions.


gregc
gregc
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4 Jun 2011 11:30pm
go the fluro colours oh and lets throw in a a mullet and a panel van as well. Found this one Im not sure if it was a joke or not



MrMyagi
MrMyagi
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5 Jun 2011 12:15am
Aussie 80's Pop Band Indecent Obsession knew the value of fluro wetsuits ... please don't bring them back!



gregc
gregc
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5 Jun 2011 12:42am
Fluro rules and those 80s super mullets.
Towny
Towny
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6 Jun 2011 12:58pm
What about the flared bell bottom wetsuits that lopez or Bertleman wore on the northshore one year. Everything old is new again..
CMC
CMC
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6 Jun 2011 1:26pm
There's heaps of flouro and bright wetties in the ranges of all of the companies again now.

These groms who are too young to remember the 80's think all of this stuff is cool, I was saying to my wife the other day as I remember it that just after flouro and the Oakley frogskins period came the Eddie Vedder long hair early to mid 90's. Just as I said it a group of young guys with tight black jeans, band shirts and long hair came along. Throw backs, I wish I had a photo of myself in '93 to show them. Identical!

They are just reliving a time line and feeling as cool as %^& doing it!
high as a kite
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SA
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6 Jun 2011 2:08pm
I've had one the same ALsUP. I was able to make mine short sleeves
I think it was taylor made by Piping Hot from memory.


Dazza65
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6 Jun 2011 5:39pm
Geez some of the above pics bring back my 80's memories. I had a flouro green and yellow short john which I am sad to claim was custom made. Went well with my flouro green board! The worst though was my mate who had a white short john, everyone in the line up gave him the 'Milky Bar Kid' jibe plus the white never stayed bright and looked wee stained yellow after a while, funny as.
english
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8 Jun 2011 5:37am
The worst though was my mate who had a white short john, everyone in the line up gave him the 'Milky Bar Kid' jibe plus the white never stayed bright and looked wee stained yellow after a while, funny as.


Thats coz it probably was wee stained
DavidJohn
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11 Jun 2011 3:02am
One day back in the mid eighties while windsurfing down at Pt Ormond (Elwood) I got asked to stand in the background of a photoshoot for a motorscooter ad..

I wonder if Sparrow remembers making me that one..

DJ

chrispychru
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11 Jun 2011 8:09am
good hold off the mast,but your looking the wrong way
DavidJohn said...

One day back in the mid eighties while windsurfing down at Pt Ormond (Elwood) I got asked to stand in the background of a photoshoot for a motorscooter ad..

I wonder if Sparrow remembers making me that one..

DJ




OG SUP
OG SUP
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11 Jun 2011 9:43pm
DavidJohn said...

One day back in the mid eighties while windsurfing down at Pt Ormond (Elwood) I got asked to stand in the background of a photoshoot for a motorscooter ad..

I wonder if Sparrow remembers making me that one..

DJ




Sorry DJ but are you in that image, I cant see you

phill
Bnaccas
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11 Jun 2011 10:24pm
OG SUP said...

Well took this shot at OG today and almost burned my retinas out.

Wondering who else has an 80's or extremely loud suit kicking around?

Phill




(IMO)
A Loud old school wetsuit and new old school board (mal)....in some ways a little sad but
he's not the only one. There was more front zip wetty tops with whales tales and denim shorts
at Manly than regular 3/2's last time I was there and the water was cold.
Image can make people do some weird things!

edit...personally I like AlSups wetty cos he chose not to update to the new model, just kept
running the Wavelength! Great effort!
Sparx
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11 Jun 2011 11:11pm
Thats actually an old school loud wetsuit as proudly worn by Ocean Groves Honorary Mayor and purveyor of fine surf craft, fashion and ephemera the one the only Murf. If you look closely you will see a Piping Hot logo on the upper sleeve. To the best of my knowledge they havent been in the wetsuit business for quite some time. Murf picked that one up at a garage sale for a ridiculous amount, like twenty five bucks or thereabouts and its been his go to sh.t stir suit ever since. Besides which, if you surf like Murf, you can get away with just about anything.
Cheers
Sparx
theDoctor
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12 Jun 2011 9:34am

the way OH&S keeps invading the nanny state, it won't be long before its compulsory to wear a wettie like the colour of murf's
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