Re. post#16 some beach nostalgia here where they have probably been speedo*-friendly for a long time:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/chr...one/tags/beach
*use the term as widely as you wish
Lots of pics but rather dominated by NJ* - there are nevertheless others you may recognise. Captions of seventy years ago are amusing - all sorts of suits are "brief" and those gaudy prints we see on boardies today would be very "loud".
*that part for NJHunkguy
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