2007-06-06 05:13:22 · 6 answers · asked by GrilledMuppet 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Just going by my gut and American History undergrad--I think it had more to do with the rise in feminism--women had been wearing revealing clothes, why not men?
The baby boom generation led the way for massive changes in our culture and hippies were a small, but important part of it, but am not sure they inspired changes in organized sports; their past times tended to be more "recreational" in nature.
2007-06-06 05:26:41 · answer #1 · answered by wildatheart 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those shorts are not by any stretch of the imagination hippie-wear. However the cultural movement of which the hippies were a part certainly had North Americans of the time more comfortable about exposure of the body than before or, alas, since.
2007-06-06 06:13:50 · answer #2 · answered by CanProf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't blame the hippies. If you look farther back, short shorts were the standard in most athletics until recently.
2007-06-06 05:25:46 · answer #3 · answered by TG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my paw was in the olympics in 1973 or some such, and he says they used to wear ski pants and skis, and he would cut holes out of the hips for the aerodynamuciality.
2007-06-06 05:20:07 · answer #4 · answered by jeff p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is a 1952 Olympic games picture. What do you think?
http://www.coolrunning.com.au/art/zatopek4.jpg
2007-06-06 08:03:30 · answer #5 · answered by meg 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who cares, those shorts are just nasty!
2007-06-06 05:28:57 · answer #6 · answered by Teia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋