Dressed / Undressed (football in pants)

Clothes and their absence (both dressed / and undressed). Brazilians carry off carrying on with nothing much on at all ages rather better than the English. Or do I just mean better than I do? Maybe it´s being near the beach (although the Manaus market dress code seemed similarly skimpy), but clothing here is casual, not just in design, but in attitude. It´s stylish enough, but convenience rules. Shorts and t-shirts are univesal - neither of which I´ve brought with me.

And is it common - I mean frequent - to play football in your pants? Without closer inspection (and this weblog is a literary resource for a general readership, so there was no great excuse) this may have to remain unanswered. I suspect the pants in question may in fact have been a chic swimsuit designed to resemble a pair of white M&S briefs. I´m assuming these weren´t the only clothes this footballer had - his fellow players sported a variety of outfits including some rather fancy team strips - it was a choice. And yes, they were playing on the beach and he did have the figure for it rather more than I do. If it catches on, however, how will spectators follow who´s on which side? In any case, I propose football in pants as additional evidence that the clothed/unclothed divide is more fluid in these parts. And see a later post [link] for more...