I only ever played “shirts vs skins” with friends, outside of school. In school we just had light and dark shirts, and had assigned days when wore what.
Dumb question: how does shirts v skins work for girls? Did the just never pick girls for skins or did they make girls compete in a bra? Cause that sounds kinda shady…
I’m a dude, but it was the same for the girls at my school: skins wore their shirts, and shirts wore a second communal sleeveless track shirt over their shirt. So we called it skins and shirts, but really it was shirts and double-shirts
My middle school has uniforms, but HS had cheap, shitty thow-over red and blue vests for gym class.
My school just had yellow jersey type things but the holes were bigger to identify a team
When I was a kid (80s-90s), we just wore a coloured pinny.
The word “pinny” pulled forth visceral memories of my middle school. Wow, impressive.
Agreed, I’d never heard of going shirtless lol
By the late 90’s early 00’s my school started doing the same for boys.
I’d completely forgotten about them.
From my experience in 90s gym class, the girls are taken to a separate auxiliary gym to do aerobics while the boys do team vs team games.
I did a lot of weight lifting in HS because of this.
Ok yeah that makes sense.
Ah yes, because if it from home they have to report it, while if it is happening at school their zero tolerance policy means they can ignore it.
Zero tolerance for snitches punches kid
Obligatory /J
I mean, that’s not too far from the truth
What the fuck kind of school gym class doesn’t have any alternative to kids taking their shirts off in class?
Even the poorest public schools have crappy colored jerseys that go over the regular gym clothes.
In the grand scheme of shit that never happened, this is near the top.
We definitely did shirts versus skins when I was in high school not that long… err, a few short decades ago
You are not old enough to understand, me thinks.
I’d hope millennial would be old enough to understand shirts vs skins.
Age has nothing to do with how unlikely it is that a school gym class would have students take off their shirts to differentiate teams in a game.
Age does. It was very, very common ~35 years ago, especially in urban or country schools where money wasn’t spent on “such frivolous things”.
I was in high school in the early 2000s and even we did it. Apparently the school I was at was a sports academy as well, so presumably that meant they had some money to work with.
I can confirm it occurred in my experience about 20 years ago. We had a set of color vests, but those were for the girls.
Yup, and jerseys need to be washed, and nobody has time for that.
When I was in school it was shirts vs skins. Two separate schools in two separate states. I’m 39.
At Christian academy we played horse though.
Okay, what the hell is horse?
You shoot, you miss, you get nothing. You shoot, you score, you get an H, followed by an O, then R, S, and E. Whoever gets to HORSE first wins.
This is so different from what I understand horse to be it’s crazy. To play horse you would shoot a ball from a certain spot and if you made it, the other person would have to shoot from the same spot or they get a letter. If you miss the other player gets to pick a spot. And so on until someone gets HORSE and loses. Also played with skateboard tricks and called SKATE.
Riiight! We used to play donkey, for some reason.
Great explanation, too
As a millennial, it wasn’t something we did in PE, but we did it occasionally on team sports for scrimmages (esp. basketball). We had jerseys, but the coach didn’t want to keep doing laundry.
Why a whole jersey and not just a coloured band?
it’s a lot easier to put on and take off a jersey than a band, and a lot more visible. At least that’s my guess.
Also, we used the jerseys for actual games, so no need for extra equipment.
It’s more visible, sure, but there’s nothing easier to put on than a band:
And you had actual games? For mandatory PE at school?
No, for PE, we generally didn’t bother with any kind of jerseys. I was talking about after-school sports, which was the only time we’d ever done shirts vs skins.
I know the concept but we never did this in school, but I never took PE more than was required so it’s possible I just missed it or didn’t see. It could’ve been a thing in highschool.
Shirts vs skins was a thing when I was in school, it was kind of traumatic
I did this. I went to school mid 80s to early 2000s.
What?! Hahaha how many times did you get held back? 85-2005 is a really long time to be in school jkjk obviously /s
We didn’t do it gym class, but we did do it during baketball practice, which was already exclusively male, and after school hours.
I never played it in school, but definitely at like summer camps that were less organized…
Highschool in hicktown, our salty freak of a gym teacher would let girls stay inside and walk laps.
Boys go outside to play whatever sport, or sometimes go to the tiny wrestling room for dodgeball, and it’d be shirt v skins. Usually he’d pick the fat kids to be skins cuz they needed more “motivation”.
Weird to me that people think shirts v skins is fake when there’s way weirder shit schools do to kids. We had our biology teacher take the class to his barn down the road and help shear his alpacas for extra credit. Like, school staff can do whatever the hell they want, and kids will just say “okay” if they don’t know any better.
This is the world I grew up in.
I transferred from a middle school in a different county and showering was required at their junior high. Compulsory fully nude showers seems kinda weird looking back Not that long ago either, pretty sure it was well after that was a common practice.
There were showers in the locker rooms when I was in school, but the ordinary gym classes never used them. (Maybe the sports teams did?) I think I would rather have dropped out than showered naked in school.
Exactly. Not at high school gym class.
Meh, we played shirt vs skins in summer when it was getting hot outside. They had sashes but people just wanted to be a bit cooler.
We played shirts vs skins in the middle and high school gym. If we had sashes I never seen them.
One of many reasons I didn’t dress out and got suspended every 3 days for 3 days until the principal figured out it was happening.
God I hated my gym teacher.
I’m sorry, wtf is “shirts vs skins”?
One team has their shirts on, the other doesn’t. Instead of color coded jeresys.
Wtf are jere-…
Yeah, ok, thanks.
It is just a way to differentiate who’s on what team. Usually basketball, but it can be done with other sports.
I think he was making fun of the spelling of jersey
Good old jeresys. Never knew anyone like him.
Gotcha, thanks.
If it makes you feel any better I’m a native English speaker and I googled the word because I didn’t know the spelling either…
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