The Quest For Greg Noll’s Jailhouse Baggies

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Marion Writes: I remember when boardshorts were called baggies.

Baggies, perhaps the most underrated piece of surf equipment, second only to your board in determining who you are out in the lineup. And no, I don’t wear a rash guard.

In the good old days, before rash guards, leashes and crowded surf, if you didn’t wear baggies, you weren’t a surfer. Hang Tens were the ones to wear, or maybe some Birdwell Beach Britches. I had both. And over the years, I hopped in and out of Quiksilvers and Janzens and just about every other brand of trunks to ever come out of the factory.

But I never had the ones I wanted.

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Kooktastic
1 year ago

From the article:

"Baggies, perhaps the most underrated piece of surf equipment, second only to your board in determining who you are out in the lineup"

Only a toolbox would say something like that.

The thing that establishes a pecking order in the lineup is skill. Not boardshorts.

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