Jams were a fashion status symbol. They were basically just surfer shorts made out of the most garish pattern and colored fabric they could find. They were a part of a resurgence of surfer style clothing of the eighties along with clam diggers.

I never had a official pair of jams, just plain old super garish shorts.

Here’s a link to one of the best and probably only comics done about Jams. It is by a great cartoonist who goes by the name Dharbin.

(Make sure you click on the :next” link a the bottom of the pages to read the whole story)

Enjoy!

4 thoughts on “Artifacts of the Analog Age: Jams

  1. Savage says:

    I didn’t have an official pair of Jams, but I did wear my knock-off pair all the time, ignoring the fact that they didn’t match my outfit or the situation. (I wore them to Boy Scout meetings all the time.)

    1. gabe says:

      Ha! Ha! Hilarious! They must have been less popular out here on the west coast huh? It’s basically the way that everyone dresses everyday…

  2. James Childress says:

    Ooooh I owned a couple pairs of shorts inspired by them. One of them was bright red with yellow pineapples on them. No idea what I was thinking wearing those things. Hideous!

    1. gabe says:

      We all made fashion mistakes back then!

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