Missing the "Good Old Days"

[dm106]

Originally Posted by Swimmin

I am not saying there is a definite trend and that fashion is going back to briefer swimsuits for the young 10 to 15 year old boys but I seem to see more and more. And they seem to agree more openly than ever that they are more comfortable. It seems to me it is more accepted and they are less affraid to be made fun of for wearing them.

One of my young friends at 14 which I swam with regularly before the pandemic started wearing a blue and white patterned Nike swim brief. Water polo style I suppose, it is double lined throughout. He likes it very much and wouldnt wear anything else. From the time he started wearing them, his board shorts disappeared.

At one time he tried one of my Seobean suits that ran too small for me so he decided to give it a try. He absolutely loved it. Much thinner and sleeker than the double lined Nike suit. He really liked the color too and he said they felt really good. He now tried to ask his parents to get one in blue and one in red in his size. The XL he tried was just a tad too big on him.

Very good to hear that the young guy likes them. I sure did at that age. Is it a trend? Not sure but nice to think so. I was about 13 when I started in speedos.

[Swimmin]

Originally Posted by dm106

Very good to hear that the young guy likes them. I sure did at that age. Is it a trend? Not sure but nice to think so. I was about 13 when I started in speedos.

There is also a 9 year old that wants a real Speedo and his mother just accepted. He is currently wearing a square cut but has been asking for a brief for months now. His board shorts pretty much disappeared too from the moment he got a tighter swimsuit.

Even at 9 he understands he might get some looks or be made fun of but he decided to simply ignore all that. He thinks the brief swimsuits are cool and is determined to try them.

Trend? Probably not as they are still very rare but definitely an option now that we actually see some on young guys.

[dm106]

Originally Posted by Swimmin

There is also a 9 year old that wants a real Speedo and his mother just accepted. He is currently wearing a square cut but has been asking for a brief for months now. His board shorts pretty much disappeared too from the moment he got a tighter swimsuit.

Even at 9 he understands he might get some looks or be made fun of but he decided to simply ignore all that. He thinks the brief swimsuits are cool and is determined to try them.

Trend? Probably not as they are still very rare but definitely an option now that we actually see some on young guys.

Swimmin, how does the 14 year old do in his speedos? Does he manage to "stay in control" in them? That was hard for me at that age.

[California Dolphin]

As I've said on previous posts, If you want to see a change back to the pre 90s shorts, start emailing the makers and tell them what you want.

All the clothing makers can be easily contacted by email and you can even attach a photo of the old fashioned shorts so they know exactly what you want.

[California Dolphin]

Originally Posted by dm106

Swimmin, how does the 14 year old do in his speedos? Does he manage to "stay in control" in them? That was hard for me at that age.

I just keep under water and concentrate on swimming so my mind isn't getting below the belt line.

[Swimmin]

Originally Posted by dm106

Swimmin, how does the 14 year old do in his speedos? Does he manage to "stay in control" in them? That was hard for me at that age.

That young man is much more in control than I have ever been until I got to about 25. Not that I have been checking all the time but he seems safe enough to be confident about walking around the pool from and to the lockers. That Seobean suit is quite revealing and obviously he had a thrill out of wearing it at first but remained under control.

But at the end of the day I was telling him that I was impressed about him enjoying himself dressed like that. He said at first it was a little wierd but he quickly got used to it and said that would be exactly the suit he wanted next but just a little smaller because you could see the XL is a little big.

I am not his father so I try not to talk too much about erections or puberty stuff but instead I always make it known if he wants to talk about it I will listem to him.

He asked me once about penis position while swimming and said he is more comfortable down. I said really? Up is much better....he then tried it and quickly went back to down.

[dm106]

Good for him! I prefer up as well. Perhaps he tried up and felt like it was too easy for him to start an erection.

[Swimmboy]

I grew up in the 70s and I just don't remember brief "Speedo" type suits being all that common. I recently watched "Jaws" and its sequels - all from the late 70s - and in those crowded beach scenes I did not see ANY true Speedo-type brief suits and maybe just one or two briefer trunks. In 1980 I took a swimming class in college and got up the nerve to purchase a Navy blue nylon Speedo instead of wearing the uncomfortable trunks the locker room handed out with your towel. But I felt quite uncomfortable and 'out of place' in the sporting goods store buying it because such suits were not that common. I justified it to myself by saying I was enrolled in an actual swimming class so was 'entitled' to wear a Speedo....

[nespeedoguy]

The comfort of gliding through water in brief is terrific. And nice to get tan if you can’t get down to the buff. Wish more guys sported them. Be fun to have a speedo board beach day ! Always enjoy folks speedo stories.
Cheers !

[Speed-Will]

Swimmboy - it may have been a matter of where you were located, etc - as far as the Speedo exposure in the 70's - 90's. I was on a swim team as a youth and we wore Speedos. On the "social front" - our country club hired members of the local college's swim team as lifeguards and they all wore Speedos to the pool, so that helped to open things up there as well, making them more acceptable.

As an adult I was already wearing Speedos as a member of a Masters swim team, so when I started dating my wife she knew what I wore (and as I mentioned earlier - her father was wearing one at the time as well). Her brothers also wore them, and they weren't swimmers.

While I would wear Speedos for swim team practice and meets, I started wearing skimpier suits to lie in the sun at the Beach and whenever we traveled to the Caribbean or Mexico. Granted - these were places that had more Europeans at the resorts and they always wore bikini style suits. I guess I was just lucky with my timing with where I was and what I wore - and I do miss those days.