If you come to swim in the UK, leave your Speedos at home - and get your bikini line sorted.
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Why would anyone need a bikini line wax job to wear board shorts?
Did you see Thornton's latest blog? Even with board shorts, he might have some issues.
Maybe I lost a few more memory cells that I realize, but I don't recall speedo briefs being common at the beach or pools in the late 70's, 80's or 90's...
I was a kid in the late 50's-late 60's. I grew up in California with a pool
in the backyard, so I wasn't at public pools or beaches very much in my pre-teen years. I do remember we were in speedo-ish suits and not much else (no shirts or shoes) pretty much all summer long.
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What do jammers do that speedo's don't ? It depends on how loose the brief is and how faded out/stretched the fabric is. Briefs also are commonly patterned (camouflage) where most jammers just have a side inset of patterned fabric. Jammers are usually worn tight which can silhouette the contours.
I don't think there were as many old fat hairy guys at the pool when I was growing up. There were few overweight people in general back then. Briefs (not usually a racing suit, more like a drag suit) were the normal men's suit in my recollection of the 60's/early 70's. Anybody swimming in cut-offs or long shorts seemed like a doofus, actually.
Maybe I lost a few more memory cells that I realize, but I don't recall speedo briefs being common at the beach or pools in the late 70's, 80's or 90's - I don't care what the fashion trend was. Basically you wore briefs for practice and meets, you wore cut -offs or other shorts to the beach and in public pools. Maybe smaller kids wore them and the odd older gent, but after about age 8 or 10 we always wore cut-off jeans. I'm sure my parents bought us "swim trunks" the equivalent of a drag suit in shape and style, I don't recall wearing one- at least not in public. "Speedos" back then, IIR, were what Spitz wore or were the butt of the joke (pun intended) of that fat, hairy "old" guy at the beach.
And FWIW, I don't see that jammers are much better than a brief for "modesty".
Every one I knew wore briefs to the beach or the pools. The briefs were from belly button down. Until 1954 I wore Jansens and we made the change to Japanese pure silk and speedos. As time went on the briefs did become smaller.
