What's the briefest you can wear in British pools?

[Bede735]

And why women wear bikini bottoms and men don't? Obviously women can have less coverage in the crotch area, and have fewer hairs on their legs, but men can shave there if it's excessive.

But there seems no intrinsic reason why mean can't wear suits with string sides, or something nearly as brief. They certainly do in indigenous cultures in the tropical regions. The women here at least have embraced those native cultures!

[Byron]

LOL - three-piece suits and most definitely some modesty for sea-bathing:
http://www.victoriana.com/Etiquette/...athingbox5.JPG

[Bede735]

In the 1960s men wore a jacket and tie in public but brief bathing suits. Nowadays they wear t-shirts and shorts in public but long shorts to swim in.

Think the fashion made more sense then.

[Byron]

... just think of the Beatles suited and booted in their early days.