The Fashion Police
TERRA-NOVA SADOWSKI
Issue date: 1/23/07 Section: Columns
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As I type this, I worry what the picture for this week's column is going to look like. But if a small percentage of the UVM population can run past multiple cops stark naked and not be arrested for public indecency, I'm sure The Cynic can run a couple pictures of the Naked Bike Ride, right?
As a spectator, I would describe the pre-holiday tradition as nothing short of epic. The participants, however, would doubtless request I also use the word "cold." Regardless, the tradition lives on as the best way to conclude the semester, even as the snow falls and the hypothermia sets in.
The participants of UVM's nude bike race were lacking little in the creativity department helmets, bikes and bodies alike were decorated in everything from banana-hammocks to war paint. Luckily, from what I saw, everyone had decided that wearing shoes would not violate the act of being completely naked.
If any of the participants had decided it would be a good idea to run in the snow shoeless there would have been an even greater questioning of their sanity on my part.
Some of the more resourceful girls with longer hair had covered their nipples with cleverly placed pigtails. Boys on the other hand let it all hang out and accentuated
their manly bods with fairy wings and clown wigs. Slogans of the night included "@#$%! it's cold!" and "I'm freeeeeee!"
I don't know about anyone else, but being able to say, "Hold on biology; I have to go watch naked people run through the snow" beats a break at the water-cooler any day. However, the tradition of biking in the nude did not start out as a purely gratuitous event.
According to Wikipedia, the group Artists for Peace is credited with organizing the first nude bike ride as a protest against oil dependency.
Yes, they're Canadian. The point of being nude is… well, no one ever answered that question. Sometimes Canadians just have to do their thing.
Since then, naked bike rides have been established around the world, and guess which city is hosting its third (did anyone see the first or second?) this year? Yup. North Winooski Avenue, June 9th, at 3 p.m. Be there or be modest. Check out www.worldnakedbikeride.org for more information.
As a spectator, I would describe the pre-holiday tradition as nothing short of epic. The participants, however, would doubtless request I also use the word "cold." Regardless, the tradition lives on as the best way to conclude the semester, even as the snow falls and the hypothermia sets in.
The participants of UVM's nude bike race were lacking little in the creativity department helmets, bikes and bodies alike were decorated in everything from banana-hammocks to war paint. Luckily, from what I saw, everyone had decided that wearing shoes would not violate the act of being completely naked.
If any of the participants had decided it would be a good idea to run in the snow shoeless there would have been an even greater questioning of their sanity on my part.
Some of the more resourceful girls with longer hair had covered their nipples with cleverly placed pigtails. Boys on the other hand let it all hang out and accentuated
their manly bods with fairy wings and clown wigs. Slogans of the night included "@#$%! it's cold!" and "I'm freeeeeee!"
I don't know about anyone else, but being able to say, "Hold on biology; I have to go watch naked people run through the snow" beats a break at the water-cooler any day. However, the tradition of biking in the nude did not start out as a purely gratuitous event.
According to Wikipedia, the group Artists for Peace is credited with organizing the first nude bike ride as a protest against oil dependency.
Yes, they're Canadian. The point of being nude is… well, no one ever answered that question. Sometimes Canadians just have to do their thing.
Since then, naked bike rides have been established around the world, and guess which city is hosting its third (did anyone see the first or second?) this year? Yup. North Winooski Avenue, June 9th, at 3 p.m. Be there or be modest. Check out www.worldnakedbikeride.org for more information.
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