Missing the "Good Old Days"

[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....