Donald Duck's shirt length
I've never tried it in public, but did at one stage wonder if I could walk that way from the carpark to the CO section of Sunnyside beach. Alas, none of my shirts were long enough to get away with it in a textile environment. I probably could have gotten away with a little cheek at the rear but surprise appearances at the front would have been inevitable.
Can you stay 'legal' with your shirts only in textile areas or do you accept that exposure is inevitable?
I'd forgotten about creating this post! A good place for a recent story as a sequel.
While I did not go anywhere nearly as busy as a market, the realisation that the polo shirt I was wearing recently was long enough to hide my swimsuit front and rear (providing that I did not lean over our raise my arms or shoulders) had me thinking that I would look no different without the swimsuit to anyone who came across me.
Normally when I've had the chance to go out paddling on my kayak, I've worn my swimsuit for the walk to the shore with just a shirt over the top. My suits are pretty brief, even more so for a quiet seaside town where boardshorts dominate the beach, let alone the nearby streets, and a bit of sun protection for the later return walk (almost a mile each way) is also prudent. The shirt gets left on the beach with the kayak trolley while I'm paddling and the suit gets a ride on the kayak but not on me, once I've cleared any people. Occasionally I can launch that way is it's quiet enough.
This morning, the suit also rode on the kayak for the walk through the streets to the beach and I just wore the shirt. I was confident it would be quiet with an early start and certain my shirt was just long enough (millimetres to spare, front and back), so off I went. While quiet, I did pass an older guy on a bicycle and then an older lady walking her dog. I got no reaction apart from smiles and the usual greetings. At the beach I removed the trolley from under the kayak at the water's edge and left the trolley and the shirt a safe distance from the shore before returning to the kayak and launching it. Only once I was paddling did I realise someone was walking the shoreline that I hadn't noticed earlier. Oh well.
To walk through the town like that made me a little nervous but it was also exhilarating. The air circulation and the gentle movement of my shirt was quite a different feeling to my usual walk. My brief suits mean that the gentle rubbing of the shirt on the outer parts of my rear is not unknown, but it is even nicer to feel that sensation from all angles along with the freedom that is kept secret from others.
With a long-ish shirt in an area close to water recreation, it's plausible that the absence of shorts just means a swim brief is being worn underneath. At least until the hem rises enough to prove otherwise.
One time while on holiday in Port Douglas in Queensland we popped into an ice-cream parlour (a daily occurrence on that trip). Being served in front of us was a guy in a t-shirt, from the life-saving club. I thought nothing of it, given the proximity to the beach and the laid-back nature of the town. I was instead focused on selecting a flavour.
As the other guy left with his ice-cream, the two girls behind the counter (who apparently knew him based on their interactions) got a surprise as they concluded he wasn't wearing a Speedo underneath, but likely a thong. I didn't get a chance to see for myself.
I'm now wondering if he was Donald Ducking.
Wearing that same long-ish shirt away from recreation sites, it's less likely that others would expect a swimsuit underneath. Even the shortest shorts are likely to show beneath the hem of the shirt, and the absence of that may lead to a different assumption about whether there's anything underneath.
So, in I was only game enough to try it in parklands, with just a short stretch of an urban street. As always, exhilarating with the nice feeling of only the loose shirt's motion as you walk, but with eyes and ears alert to anyone approaching.
After returning, I immediately wished I'd gone further!
I have a couple of sleeveless shirts but I never feel comfortable in them. I prefer short sleeves or no shirt, rather than in-between. Not sure why.
I certainly prefer no shirt, but find sleeveless shirts handy to wear places I can't be shirtless in warm weather. I always wore one to the gym when I went. When Covid started, I bought some basic exercise equipment and started exercising in the basement. Now I never wear a shirt to exercise, and rarely wear shorts, for that matter.
I have found going a few sizes bigger often makes them longer too. I am XL in shirts but have several 3 and 4XL shirts which cover nicely as long as I don't raise my arms or bend over. Wear these all the time in winter and walking the path to the nude beach.
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