WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 46

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) RE: Hockey kit - women's models ?
	by "Latta, Julie L (Lee)" 

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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 12:38:00 CDT
From: "Latta, Julie L (Lee)" 
To: women-in-hockey 
Subject: RE: Hockey kit - women's models ?
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I've never bought a kit before, I always have bought my peices of   
equipment
seperately. As a matter of fact my shoulder pads are not women's. All the
women's shoulder pads I came across were to flimsy. (I play in a men's
league and take some monster hits.) The problem with the pants you
describe was really not a problem for me as my pants are belted. If you
used suspenders instead I don't see it being a problem either. Your   
hockey
pants don't have cinch in the waiste like a pair of bluejeans, as long as   
they
are comfortable, the pads are positioned on your body correctly and stay   
in
place, you are set to go. (By the way, I wear a Men's Small in CCM
Supra pants) In some brands I take a men's medium in pants due to the
length more than anything else.  The biggest problem I had in fitting
equipment really was my shoulder pads. I needed the extra protection but
had to accomodate my bust. (I'm not huge, just not flat.) My solution was
most of the long line shoulder pads that reached down to the top of my
pants work great.

Lee Latta

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From:  women-in-hockey[SMTP:email@hidden]
Sent:  Friday, August 11, 1995 12:21 AM
To:  Multiple recipients of list
Subject:  Hockey kit - women's models ?

Having just returned from goalie camp in Toronto, I was also visiting
various stores attempting to buy players kit for my girlfriend.

Anyway, there are some major, obvious, differences in the body shapes
of the two sexes, and whereas I found a pair of Jofa shoulder pads for
women, I had great trouble trying to explain that women's hips can be
quite alot larger than their waist size. The outcome being that I ended
up buying pants which were of a certain model (CCM i think), which were
able to expand in the right places (ie they didn't have awkward bits of
plastic).

The final solution seems to work, but I thought I'd ask if any of you
had had similar problems when buying kit - I figured the initial
problems were because the UK is a relative hockey backwater, but to
come across similar troubles in Canada surprised me.

Comments ?

Malcolm


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