Oldschoolbiketen
Jockstrap Fan
What does anything know about the Johnson and Johnson line of jockstraps? I have a Coach w/2 1/2" waistband and I love it! I would like to learn more about the history of the brand.
The «real» PROTEX was not J&J but made in Canada by the Guelph Elastic Hosiery Company. They had numerous models. Most had a tall centre panel above the pouch ( sometimes of knit mesh) that for short-waisted guys like me made the waistband ride up almost to my lower ribs. Some of the older models were quite «neat» with ample but form-fitting pouches and 2-inch waistbands. Many Canadian basketball players wore the «COLLEGIATE» model because its low rise didn't show when wearing the extremely brief (& often SKIN-TIGHT!) shorts that were de rigueur in the 50s and 60s. There was the VARSITY (with 3" hi-rise waistband); the RC#1 and RC#2; and the O'KEE cup-holder jock with soft flannel inner liner and a cast Magnesium cup with large «ventilation» holes and felt binding on the edges. Then there was the «Nylon Pouch» which was, for a time, the only jock we could find in my city. It was an RC#1 (3' band low-rise) but with a TINY pouch made of some sort of semi-plastic mesh with SHARP edges which might have appealed to Ms (of S&M) but worn in gym class left bleeding scratches after only a few minutes of activity. The 3"waistbands (with trademark multiple navy blue stripes) of all Protex jocks were uniformly thick and soft and VERY comfortable if you had flat abs but rolled uncomfortably if there was even a hint of flab down there.Johnson & Johnson jockstraps were popular at drug stores c 1964. They were often sold behind a glass counter. Athens, GA.
For a time, BIKE made some awesome jocks with thick, soft, COMFORTABLE waistbands and accurate sizing. The current GREY Bike models have a sleazy, sharp-edged wiastbamd, sad-sack pouches, and the XXL is really a MED. OH for the days of the «propfessional» Bike jocks — pushed off the market by bean-counters, ad-sales idiots, and the sadistic ball-0crushers who push «compression shorts» which do a superb job of compressing one's jewels and then shredding them with unforgiving seams.I got a J&J jock in minnesota years after I think they stopped making them. It was okay, but nothing to write home about. BIKE any day for me.
The «real» PROTEX was not J&J but made in Canada by the Guelph Elastic Hosiery Company. They had numerous models. Most had a tall centre panel above the pouch ( sometimes of knit mesh) that for short-waisted guys like me made the waistband ride up almost to my lower ribs. Some of the older models were quite «neat» with ample but form-fitting pouches and 2-inch waistbands. Many Canadian basketball players wore the «COLLEGIATE» model because its low rise didn't show when wearing the extremely brief (& often SKIN-TIGHT!) shorts that were de rigueur in the 50s and 60s. There was the VARSITY (with 3" hi-rise waistband); the RC#1 and RC#2; and the O'KEE cup-holder jock with soft flannel inner liner and a cast Magnesium cup with large «ventilation» holes and felt binding on the edges. Then there was the «Nylon Pouch» which was, for a time, the only jock we could find in my city. It was an RC#1 (3' band low-rise) but with a TINY pouch made of some sort of semi-plastic mesh with SHARP edges which might have appealed to Ms (of S&M) but worn in gym class left bleeding scratches after only a few minutes of activity. The 3"waistbands (with trademark multiple navy blue stripes) of all Protex jocks were uniformly thick and soft and VERY comfortable if you had flat abs but rolled uncomfortably if there was even a hint of flab down there.
RE J&J, I would occasionally see older cotton J&J jocks and in the hockey locker room (1965) spotted a J&J «All Nylon» being worn under a huge Cooper «Defenseman's Cup». The J&J All Nylon was SLEEK and SEXY but very hard (ptp!] to find and disappeared from the market far too soon. I LOVED the several I was able to get, and wore my last one until it almost disintegrated. The Bike #10s, IF we could find any, were made of flimsy, unbleached cotton, oversized, and would stretch & shrink in all the wrong directions. Occasionally I would spot guys who had gone to school in the USA sporting dazzling WHITE #10s of much better material and much better fit. (to be continued)
Yes that’s the jockThe «real» PROTEX was not J&J but made in Canada by the Guelph Elastic Hosiery Company. They had numerous models. Most had a tall centre panel above the pouch ( sometimes of knit mesh) that for short-waisted guys like me made the waistband ride up almost to my lower ribs. Some of the older models were quite «neat» with ample but form-fitting pouches and 2-inch waistbands. Many Canadian basketball players wore the «COLLEGIATE» model because its low rise didn't show when wearing the extremely brief (& often SKIN-TIGHT!) shorts that were de rigueur in the 50s and 60s. There was the VARSITY (with 3" hi-rise waistband); the RC#1 and RC#2; and the O'KEE cup-holder jock with soft flannel inner liner and a cast Magnesium cup with large «ventilation» holes and felt binding on the edges. Then there was the «Nylon Pouch» which was, for a time, the only jock we could find in my city. It was an RC#1 (3' band low-rise) but with a TINY pouch made of some sort of semi-plastic mesh with SHARP edges which might have appealed to Ms (of S&M) but worn in gym class left bleeding scratches after only a few minutes of activity. The 3"waistbands (with trademark multiple navy blue stripes) of all Protex jocks were uniformly thick and soft and VERY comfortable if you had flat abs but rolled uncomfortably if there was even a hint of flab down there.
RE J&J, I would occasionally see older cotton J&J jocks and in the hockey locker room (1965) spotted a J&J «All Nylon» being worn under a huge Cooper «Defenseman's Cup». The J&J All Nylon was SLEEK and SEXY but very hard (ptp!] to find and disappeared from the market far too soon. I LOVED the several I was able to get, and wore my last one until it almost disintegrated. The Bike #10s, IF we could find any, were made of flimsy, unbleached cotton, oversized, and would stretch & shrink in all the wrong directions. Occasionally I would spot guys who had gone to school in the USA sporting dazzling WHITE #10s of much better material and much better fit. (to be continued)
Love to see a photo of it & the box...or better yet please model it for us!I have a Johnson & Johnson jockstrap with the 3 inch waistband. The box that it came in says “Modern V-Front construction provides an inward and upward lift for the abdomen and vital zone.” It was probably manufactured in the ‘50s, but it came to me in excellent condition. It looks as if I walked into a drugstore and bought it yesterday. The color is that of unbleached cotton, the same color that I remember for Bike No. 10 when I was in HS. The leg straps (3/4 inch “non-curling“) are impressively sturdy, like professional grade. This is a very comfortable jock though. It is identical to the one that I took from my dad’s dresser to try out before I had my own.
The model of this particular jock is “Trump”. I think that Johnson & Johnson had these other models: Coach, Swimmer, Tuxedo, Rugby. Probably others too (one called Victory maybe?).
It also (as stated on the box) has “Permoflex elastic webbing with its heat-bonded thermoplastic seal stands up better and longer than ordinary webbing. Rubber strands retain their elasticity even when broken.”. In the thread above someone mentioned PROTEX. Maybe there was confusion with Permoflex.
The one and only CUP that could be found in my provincial town came from the EATON's mail-order catalogue. PROTEX «O'KEE» with their «patent» moulded MAGNESIUM cup with large rectangular vent holes and the edge bound with felt attached with a winding of some sort of string. after being too-often flogged by grade-school bullies I orderd the O'KEE and wore it daily to protect my sensitive and growing «man-parts». Once I learned to fight properly I stopped wearing it for protection but it then became my favourite jerkoff tool with the cup pressing upward under my by then heavy balls as I pounded away. Vigourous ball-play is still what really makes me blast a big one.
The O'KEE CUP had one dangerous flaw — Magnesium is a component of many fireworks and once it starts burning it becomes a fire-bomb and one of the locker-room pranks was to play a lighter flame on some poor schmuck's cup until it burst into flame and self-destructed in a shower of sparks and billows of acrid smoke. Some time in the 70s, Protex switched over to a cheap white plastic version of the generously-sized and very strong black COOPER cup — the one used by some cup-obsessed jocks as a goblet to drink champagne in the locker room to celebrate a victory. The Protex version , however, was so chintzy it would shatter on even fairly low impact. The shattering of one of those ersatz cups in the dojo where I always wore a JOFA cup for sparring had a string of junk-clutching next-in-lines signing up for me to order them a JOFA. Those JOFA cups were hard to find back then so I ended up ordering and selling dozens of them to dojo buddies.
Quoting from the ad in the image labeled J&J Trump V-Front.jpg:lee Some J&J items.
View attachment 35541View attachment 35542View attachment 35543 My all time favorite and lucky enough to own one. hehe special occasion jock. Thanks for sharing