Speedos

I'm from the UK and can see that we clearly have some major cultural differences in this area. In fact, this thread has made me worry about my swims in hotel pools on my occasional visits to the US - shouldn't I pack the speedos next time? Over here its quite normal for all shapes and sizes to wear speedos. I'd say that >50% casual swimmers, >80% of lap swimmers and ~100% club swimmers wear them. You might be interested to know that in France, for some reason (which I confess I don't understand but I think has something to do with hygiene) they don't allow men to wear 'shorts' in many public swimming pools so you have to wear speedos.

I'm from the UK and can see that we clearly have some major cultural differences in this area. In fact, this thread has made me worry about my swims in hotel pools on my occasional visits to the US - shouldn't I pack the speedos next time? Over here its quite normal for all shapes and sizes to wear speedos. I'd say that >50% casual swimmers, >80% of lap swimmers and ~100% club swimmers wear them. You might be interested to know that in France, for some reason (which I confess I don't understand but I think has something to do with hygiene) they don't allow men to wear 'shorts' in many public swimming pools so you have to wear speedos.