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Author: lb2100 Date Posted: 5/18/2019 12:00:00 AM	Subject: vintage Bif jocks Does anyone remember the Bif jock? I was at a boarding school in South Africa in the late 1950s. (See my story 'Jocks in South Africa') We were encouraged to wear jocks for games and I had two Bikes and two Litesomes, which were what were available locally and what most guys had. I wore these happily for games and thought them more comfortable than Y-fronts or boxers. Then I discovered that some other guys wore jocks all the time, not just for games, so I thought I'd do the same. I looked in the local sports shops for a few more jocks so that I had enough to wear one every day and found the Bif. There were two models, both had the usual 3 inch cotton elastic waist bands and 1 inch flat elastic legstraps (like the Bikes), but one model had a two-ply pouch of soft stretchy jersey cotton, like the Litesome but more close-fitting and less bulky, with flat leg straps, and the other had a pouch of woven threads more like the Bike. So they were a sort of cross between Bikes and Litesomes. I bought one of each and found they gave good support (firmer than the Litesome, I thought) but were very comfortable and excellent for all day wear. They were also quite robust and long-lasting - I still have one in my jock drawer, though the legstraps are beginning to lose their stretch. I bought a couple more but then never saw them again. Someone told me that they were called Bif jocks because they were designed for the British Industries Fair, for export; certainly the label says 'Bif, British Made'. I guess they may not have been available much in the UK and were probably intended to challenge the Bike jocks overseas - did they reach the States, Canada, Australia or New Zealand? Does anyone remember them? Allkink does not have one in his collection and 'Bif' does not show up in the search engines. They were really nice jocks.
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