I am considering purchasing Speedo jammers but I am accustomed to the brief style. I need feedback on the benefits of jammers. My main concern is that jammers will pinch my legs at the base. I mean people do have different leg girths I imagine. Please give me any good and bad opinions of jammers before I plop any money down on them.
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Originally posted by kennyrupple
Do you think jammers are more popular because most guys were boxer underwear?
It's certainly possible that guys may feel uncomfortable wearing swimsuits that are tighter and briefer than their underwear, in which case the increased use of boxer underwear may explain, in some degree, the increased liking for jammers (in spite of the fact that jammers are slightly slower and cost more).
But a more important factor, I think, is that many male Olympic swimmers have worn jammers (or leg suits, or full body suits) at the last two Olympics. Admitedly, these suits are high-tech fabrics that minimize drag, and these swimmers generally have the luxury of starting each heat with a dry suit (minimizing the water absorption factor). But it's easy for kids to ignore these footnotes and to fantasize that, when they wear $25 or $30 jammers, they are wearing what the Olympic swimmers wear. And then you can add to this the fact that there are some swimmers, like Marc, who never realized how great briefs look and how dorky jammers look, but who now feel liberated by the kids' fashion choices to wear what they really wanted to wear all along.
Originally posted by kennyrupple
Do you think jammers are more popular because most guys were boxer underwear?
It's certainly possible that guys may feel uncomfortable wearing swimsuits that are tighter and briefer than their underwear, in which case the increased use of boxer underwear may explain, in some degree, the increased liking for jammers (in spite of the fact that jammers are slightly slower and cost more).
But a more important factor, I think, is that many male Olympic swimmers have worn jammers (or leg suits, or full body suits) at the last two Olympics. Admitedly, these suits are high-tech fabrics that minimize drag, and these swimmers generally have the luxury of starting each heat with a dry suit (minimizing the water absorption factor). But it's easy for kids to ignore these footnotes and to fantasize that, when they wear $25 or $30 jammers, they are wearing what the Olympic swimmers wear. And then you can add to this the fact that there are some swimmers, like Marc, who never realized how great briefs look and how dorky jammers look, but who now feel liberated by the kids' fashion choices to wear what they really wanted to wear all along.
