This compelling image from a recent blog entry on Wrestling Arsenal along with the caption “I like white tights” elicits a strong “I AGREE” from me! A favorite sight of mine in the squared-circle has always been jobbers (and in particular, Doughboys, those heavier-set guys) in tights.
This interest goes back as long as I can remember. And though it’s hard to pinpoint a particular defining influence for this appeal, I do recall a movie (probably first seen on a Saturday afternoon on TV after the weekly wrestling program) that really opened my eyes. Although “The Black Shield of Falworth” is best remembered today for the Brooklyn accent that Tony Curtis brought to the Middle Ages, for me this flick was a primer in the fine art of viewing men in tights.
I still savor YouTube clips of Doughboy studs in white tights like Butch Malone or Steve Starr jobbing in the ring… and if an on-air commentator betrays a Brooklyn accent, my mind goes back to “The Black Shield of Falworth,” to those hot lads leaping around like ballet dancers and to Tony Curtis exclaiming: “Yonda lies the castle of my fodda!“*
* (For the record, here’s a little bit of film trivia, courtesy of Wikipedia: “The Black Shield” is famous for an apocryphal line, rendered as “Yonda lies da castle of my fodda” or similar. … The line is said to have come from a remark made by Debbie Reynolds on television.
This chestnut used to be quoted in Radio Times whenever the film was on BBC television, and found its way into a 2007 study of Tony Curtis’s work by Clive James. Curtis has denied ever saying that line, but he did actually say a similar line in the movie Son of Ali Baba, released in 1952, that reads, “This is the palace of my father, and yonder lies the Valley of the Sun”, and he did deliver it in a markedly New York accent. The quote “Yonda lies da castle of my fodda” is virtually the opening line of Prince Valiant and is spoken by Robert Wagner.
That said, the famous line has become a part of the lore of “The Black Shield” and is as appealing as the irresistible tagline used by IMDb in their summary of the film: “Technicolor and Tights!”)
There’s nothing quite as wholly satisfying as watching a big, hunky wrestler testing the seams of a super-snug pair of white, ankle-length tights. The straining tights highlight all of his best ASSets: that bitable bubble butt, the swollen groin area, the muscular calves, those powerful thighs, that titillatingly tongue-tempting ‘taint’ region,… need I continue? ;p