In between brief and square-cut
 

What does one call a swim suit that's larger than a competition style brief and smaller than a square cut? I am beginning to see more of these, such as at H&M retail store (but not on their web site).

Some companies give it their own brand name such as the Corcovado brief linked below, others calls it a trunk. But a trunk can refer to many styles.

http://www.parkeandronen.com/corcovado-brief_c_19.html

trunks
 

Good question - so much confusion nowadays as to a common term that is clear to everybody.
In my earlier days it was simple as your swim trunks would just be whatever style or size of suit you chose to wear for the beach or pool.

For what you show I would definitely borrow from Brazil and say Sungas
(and Tangas for the bikini suits) (which so few Brazilian guys wear now)

The Brazilians call that a Sunga, I think. very popular there right now.

In between
 

I have been wearing a brief from Croota ( Australian). They have little form until you put them on-tie at the hips and made of Nylon-have a lot of decals on them-very comfortable especially with mild jock itch which I have from time to time.They remind e me of the trunk style in question.

NY Times article on Sungas
 

Thanks. I found a NY Times article on Sungas

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/07/27...7Foraging.html

Blue Man
 

A nice bit of promotion for the business no doubt but yet another example of
how ill-informed journalists confuse the descriptions even more.
This one talks of bikinis in the USA and his "racer style at Speedo" all in one line - so have bikinis become speedos or were speedos really bikinis in the USA all along?

These guys never seem to read up on their subject (just fill some empty space in a newspaper) and there is some drivel here about a sunga being the bikini equivalent of a tent dress (a failed attempt at clever writing no doubt).

Let's ignore this nonsense and just enjoy a pic of Brazilians on the beach in their Sungas:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JzOQJjUPxG...icture%2B5.png

correction
 

Sunga guys:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JzOQJjUPxG...icture%2B5.png

sunga
 

:)


Dictionary surprise - one painful definition
I did not expect:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sunga

definition
 

http://wordnik.com/words/sunga
This one you can't trust as what it is describing in not Sunga but Tanga

Tanga is here (small bikini or thong):
http://thefreedictionary.com/tanga

same as training suits?
 

I don't see regular places sell Sungas, but training suits, or baggies, such as Dolfin Uglies seem to similar by chance. Brazilian sungas seem to be cut looser than snug fitting suits. But perhaps sungas are still a bit shorter on the side. Opinions?

http://www.dolfinswimwear.com/swimsu...p?CategoryID=5

Other than eBay, I only found a site called http://www.beachbrasil.com/ that sells a wide range on the web.