You may or may not have already noticed from your latest surf-shop excursions, but it’s looking more and more like bright is back. The fluorescents that lit up the ’80s are once again popping up in line-ups everywhere and apparently making a loud comeback from their nearly 20 year stay in the penalty box of style.

Before I go any further I have to throw out a disclaimer - Fashion trends and styles aren’t exactly my cup of tea. 90% of my entire wardrobe has more than likely come from surf shop outlet stores. T-shirts and boardies are my version of the suit and tie, so an expert on fashion sense I am not. With that being said, I am all in for this return of brightness onto the boards, shorts, pictures, and videos of surfers all over the world.

I’m sure much of this excitement for me as well as many others comes from the nostalgia brought by the return of colors from the days when Potter was king and Kelly was cutting his teeth. If you’ve ever strapped on a pair of A.P.E. gloves or applied un-godly amounts of purple sunscreen to your nose then you know where I’m coming from.

The infusion of brightness back into surfing is going to be entertaining to watch no matter how you feel about its return. At the very least, even if bright colors just aren’t your thing, when this go-round of the fluorescent phase is over we’ll be reloaded with fresh images and videos to look back on when we want a reminder of the days when bright came back.

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Posted by Shaun on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 in Surfing.

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