Since this thread is like a Seinfeld episode as its really about nothing, ill contribute to the gender part of the discussion and bring up the 1984 Univega catalog cover.
My wife saw it and at first sight commented on what she saw as selling sex since the woman is attractive and less than fully dressed. I pointed out that one of the guys is equally limited in clothing. Always funny how even women sometimes view men and women in athletic clothing differently where one is OK and the other is to attract attention.

Anyways, the Univega catalogs are always a good chuckle. The pictures are so hokey. Pretty sure what developed into hipster irony was alive and well back then. There is no way the pictures were taken without recognizing how campish they are.
Such well spec'd bikes and such terrible catalog pictures.


more from '83 and '84...