What was your earliest speedo experience

[lapswimmer]

May I ask that we return to the thread topic of your earliest speedo experience if anyone chooses to do so. And that would include any experiences in between, for that matter. The notion is to share stories which will trigger memories and add to the thread..

[speedos123]

My earliest experience was when I was young and watching the male divers in the Olympics, they looked hot, ripped and buff in those tiny little swimsuits. I asked my mom if I could start wearing one for a while did, then I got shy as I got older.

[ReservedEnthusiast]

Well, my first experience of any kind would be seeing other boys in speedos and hammers on the pool deck at my friends' swim practice at the athletic club their family belonged to. But that was when we were like 7 or 8.

The first time I had a speedo experience after realizing I loved them would be seeing a classmate at the pool for pool day in high school PE. He was just sitting on deck in a circle with friends wearing Turbo Jamaica briefs, and he was so toned and tan and was a teenage Adonis that I kept sneaking glances of him.

[underwearphil]

My first memory of wearing “Speedos” is the first time that I ever went to a pool. I am talking about mid 1950’s when I was a young boy. I had been to the beach before on our family holidays and I had probably worn speedo style then, but I cannot really remember.
My friend and I had been enrolled for swimming lessons at our local pool by our respective mothers. I had never been in a swimming pool before. This one dated from about 1910 and one memory was the echoing nature as children shouted and yelped. I had been bought new swimming trunks – speedo style, although probably not actual speedos. I enjoyed my first lesson and that started my passion for swimming, including competitive swimming. It was not long before I joined a swimming club, and, of course, the purchase of club speedos, and was racing by the time I was 9 years old. I have never looked back since then and have always worn speedo style swimwear in the pool and on the beach.
Back to my very first lesson. Afterwards my friend and I emerged from the changing rooms to find both our mothers in fits of laughter. Apparently there had been some teenagers in the deep end of the pool and diving off the boards. One of these guys was wearing rather loose fitting speedos where the leg elastic had failed. Our mothers were not watching us experience our first swimming lesson but were transfixed by the teenager with his tackle hanging out of his briefs. A lesson learnt as a child, always make sure that the Speedos fit well!

[underwearphil]

As a teenager, I regularly went with friends to our local lido – the open air pool – in summer months when it was warm and sunny. We would swim, dive and sunbathe. We always wore Speedos. This is the 1960’s when Speedos, were thin nylon material and very brief. At our lido there was a lifeguard who wore just brief white Speedos, no vest or shorts, just Speedos and a whistle around his neck. As well as sitting in the lifeguard’s chair overlooking the pool he would regularly walk around the pool in a posing manner. He was very dark skinned and so I assumed that he was, at least partially, of Afro-Caribbean origin until one day when I encountered him in the changing room without his Speedos to see that he had a pure white arse, the most incredible speedo tan-lines. I have been interested in tan-lines ever since!

[underwearphil]

At the Swimming Club where I trained as a teenager, I had a good friend called Ralph. He was a superb athlete, a typical “swimmers” build with very fair hair and best in our age group at 100 and 200 butterfly. We had swum together for some years. Although most of us wore Speedos for training and competitions, Ralph had a black, very brief and low cut, slip that he must have had from about the age of eleven. As time passed, Ralph grew and consequently the black slip got “smaller” and tighter. We were probably fifteen when eventually our coach “exploded” and banned Ralph from the pool and the club until he got some “proper” swimming trunks that did not expose his pubic hair. The next week, Ralph returned, this time wearing standard black Speedos. However, Ralph did still occasionally wear his tiny slip briefs when we played around at the lido.

[Torchwatch]

When I was 5 and my sister was 7 she wrote in her news book at school
"On Saturday we went to Nanes Hose (Nannies House) and then went to the beach. Big brother put his on, I put mine on, my two little brothers put theirs on but Mummy and Daddy didn't put theirs on."
At the following parents evening my father was asked to explain what it meant. He said that the children had put on swim suits and gone for a paddle while the adults had stayed fully dressed on the beach preparing the picnic and keeping watch.
This was the first reference to me wearing a swim suit and it would have been a black nylon swim brief probably passed down to me from my older brother.
My younger brother always got new stuff as it was worn out by the time I'd finished with it.