QueeAndJiggy OPSnakiestory's author reveals a personal experience here – captivated in GDR · As far as short leather trousers are concerned, smooth, shiny leather meant a special class in the 50s and 60s · Something for the well-off · The MERCEDES among leather shorts Remembering my playmates, I can only find one each in black and green glossy leather. But there was a third: a cousin in the GDR. When we were all expelled from Silesia by the Russians, his family had not made it far enough to the West, and the Iron Curtain rattled down. In the early sixties I visited them in GDR, a middle-class-family like us in FRG. My father had warned me, "There are many things missing over there. Don't make fun of it and act modestly." Of course, they didn't have a car and there were only a few on the roads. For my father in FRG, his motorcycle had also only been affordable because he worked as an engineer at NSU. Their rented apartment was furnished similarly to ours, my aunt, uncle, girl cousin were inconspicuous, but actually dressed more dignified than us in the West. But my cousin, in his shiny black leather pants* with green trim like Germanic oak leaves, blew the frame! Instantly, I was pale with envy. My father had also warned me, "The Russians want to handcuff the whole nation. Make sure you don't get handcuffed." Well, being tied up happened in a different way, as we shall see ... * My cousin gave me his trousers presented here 45 years later for my small collection. leather shorts, leather trousers, Snakiestory, handcuffs, tied to tree, hooded, 1960s, kurze Lederhose, Ledershorts, Handschellen, an Baum gefesselt, GDR, FRG, 1960er
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