Men Who Wear 100% Nylon Tricot (Largest Collection on the Internet): Red Nylon Ocean Champion Suits in TV and Film and 2 Guys Who Wore Them--More Proof!

This post won't appeal to more than a few, but based on the comments from my last post, I couldn't resist a few additions and sharing an important discovery just made today. A number of us had crushes on the boy in Flipper, Luke Halpin, now 71. Finding this photo of him wearing a red nylon Ocean Champion suit would indicate it's what he was wearing under his iconic cut offs instead of the cotton briefs the rest of the boys in America had to wear. As fate would have it, I caught the last hour of a Flipper movie that was on TCM today during a late lunch. Thanks to the pause and reverse feature on my remote, I thought I caught a glimpse of something red a couple of times, but it turned out to be the red rubber end of his fishing net. Yeah, I guess I was a little jumpy looking for his red suit. More than once I caught a glimpse of white which would indicate the standard white briefs--although it could have been a white nylon OC suit, too. The fact that the show seemed to go out of its way not to show any waistbands on anyone. The complete opposite of today, seeing one's underwear or waistband was very rare--and very erotic for some of us back then. I remember already keeping track of waistband sightings by age 8. That grew exponentially when gym and naked swimming started by age 12. Anyway, back to Luke and his nylon underwear / swimsuit..... The occasional glimpses of something white (which also could have been the whiteness of some unexposed skin), could also been the white briefs of one of the stunt doubles that would have been used during filming. Wardrobe would have been concerned about matching his cutoffs and doubtful that the stunt doubles getting to wear something that wasn't supposed to be seen.

Ok, this is more like a URO (unidentified red object) down his cutoffs, but it's definitely not the tip of his fish net and matches the red of his nylon suit. I tried several times and this was as big as the red ever got so here it is. Not exactly a new planet in our solar system, but pretty good proof (as if we needed more after the photo of him wearing them) that he wore these nylon suits.

This is another pretty good indication that he had no problem wearing his nylon tricot Ocean Champion suit around the set. This was obviously a publicity shot since I don't think he was teaching Flipper to type on an electric typewriter next to the water like that.

I liked this shot of him catching a glimpse of his "dad's" crotch which was probably the 2nd most viewed item after Flipper being #3.

The family that wears nylon and crams into a submarine together--well, they stay together.

Kind of hot finally knowing what's under those cotton cutoffs--especially that it's not the white cotton briefs we were forced to wear.

No waistband sightings here but just about where that horizontal seam on his cutoffs is would be the waistband on his double nylon tricot suit.

Another red nylon tricot Ocean Champion wearing stud was Ken Clark, 31 in 1958, who appeared as "Stew Pot" in "South Pacific." Forget the fact that his nylon suit didn't exist during WWII, it was very popular in 1958 and here it is in the film.

Ken sure filled out his nylon suit and seemed to notice that the more he wore those 2 layers of silky nylon, the more they slid over each other. Imagine being paid to wear this "costume" every day, all day. I don't actually remember this scene in the film, but I'm guessing these were stills taken during filming and not from the film. I recently bought a copy of "Around the World Under the Sea" after the trailer shown on TCM showed a lot of the crew wearing these amazing suits. Well, apparently only crew wore them since not even Lloyd Bridges had one on.

Guess they weren't worried about his manhood showing in this wardrobe shot. Wow, this was 60 years ago. No reason that suit couldn't still be around somewhere and still doing what it did best, getting him off in it. Unfortunately it won't be him since he died in 2009 at 82.