[sebbie]

About 1954, I was 7 or 8 years old, and I didn't have a swimsuit. My mom, however, had a lot of old clothes she had saved for whatever reason. She dug around and said to me "Why don't you try wearing this?" I immediately got excited when I saw what she had dug out. It was a real swim brief, in retrospect, I think a swim brief that had once been owned and worn by one of her brothers, maybe in the 1930s or perhaps early 1940s. Of course, even then I knew that was where I wanted my body to be.

The swim brief, in retrospect, was most interesting. It was clearly brief-shaped, but we would now say wide, maybe 5-inch sides. The material, however, really predated the smooth nylon or stretch Lycra blend fabrics. The material seemed to me like a heavy wool knit, very scratchy, and without any sort of lining so the scratchy material was right up against my groin and private parts. IIRC It had a little belt at the top, with a small buckle to hold the suit in place, not unlike the belt on the Daniel Craig James Bond suit. Even then, I loved wearing that suit!