Hi Jamesswim,
Great post and I am impressed by the numbers you cite. I shop and SwimOutlet and MetroSwim frequently for my serious swimming needs. I also like Funky Trunks, Jaked, Aussiebum and CaRioCA (maybe some others). I am an older guy, so when I started swimming we used to go to the local sports store and buy our suits or got them through the team. Then along came the catalogs, like the old Worldwide Aquatics and Keifer that offered more selection and variety, I love the web because I can go on and get six or seven awesome suits at a time. I swim between 3000 and 5000 yards a day or two miles or so open water in the summer. In the winter I find the chlorine eats up my suits (and my skin). so I have been known to buy two or three of the same suit if I really like it.
I am exclusively a briefs or racer cut swimmer. I tried jammers once in the 90's and hated them. I guess it is just what I grew up wearing. I am very comfortable in a race cut swimsuit. I find that local swim shops mostly sell jammers. By the way, I also like board shorts, but wear them as shorts only and I have never bought them on the web.
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