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Since covid started basically worn shorts every day. Even in winter started doing shorts plus blanket.
Aus summer is getting fucking stupid now tho. I don't burn easy but now any exposed skin I can literally feel getting cooked. If only it was acceptable for a white guy to wear the white sheik robes.
Also at least 70% of shorts looking good or not comes down to the choice of socks
Similar in NZ, it gets tropical and humid af here and there's a good five months of the year that you really don't want to wear pants or you got swamp ass just walking two blocks. Long baggy Jorts are great, take a beating and good for landing and sliding on your ass, baggier allows more airflow, longer can protect your knees if you fall onto them.
Are you in NZ? I lived there for 5 years, wife is from there. My fashion changed while I was there - I had like 3 pairs of cut off Dickies shorts that I wore almost exclusively. And depending on season, either plain tank tops (singlets) or Slayer hoodie lol.
Singlets are key. Gonna be a lot of guys in TJ cosplay this summer.
I was in South Auckland (Manurewa)... did not notice that the spot was kinda rough until I'd been other places. I saw a lot of fights while being at stoplights right on Great South Road, right there. I only really had probably 3 issues the whole time I was there, but all 3 were in the same week, lol. I worked at Independent Liquor in Papakura (believe its Asahi liquor now?) the whole time I was there. Wife is half Maori - Paparoa Marae. She's from the Tauranga area, which is an awesome spot. I spent a lot of time / money at Boardertown in Auckland and Hyper ride and at Real Groovy (when it was further down Queen street!). I skated Victoria park, the old version not the updated one (I think that happened right before I moved back? So 2012 or 2013), while my wife would hang out at the Victoria Park Market (old version - before all the cafes). I skated that Manukau skate park a lot at first. I had some pals in Ramarama, Drury & Pukekohe. Oh and Clevedon (cool township). Then I had some other friends up in Ellerslie, Penrose and Mt. Eden. And one that lived in North Shore spot. I had one skater friend but we worked opposite shifts so that never really got anywhere.
Right before Covid we were over there - her cousins have a farm near Hobbiton, so did some farming/4 wheeling and then peeped that. Did a whole road trip to/through the South Island. Queenstown is sick! I could be wrong but I felt like south island "vibes" were different than North? Great/ massive scenery. Didn't skate on the trip which is dumb in hindsight. Oh yeah the last "gnarly" thing I ever did on a skateboard was 2009 in Onehunga... I bombed some hills in the dark on streets I'd never skated on before. I was a bit drunk I think, but that was the last tough thing I ever did on a board (I was 33 and all the injuries started getting me that year).
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