Well if I'm at a "Textile" pool, beach, or waterpark. I have no problem wearing "board shorts". I just call them swim trunks. Plus they not long, only going to above my knees. 3 reasons I don't wear speedos. #1 is I don't like the tight feeling I get on my bottom half. #2 is they are ugly looking. #3 is that I'm not in the olympics trying to set world records in swimming. Also I think its a age thing too.
The sad thing is that the best place to buy a swim apparel that suits well is at the sex shop !!!
Only covering the essential so that the haunting aunt doesn't get damned, but small enough to be tolerable. Some reactions? Maybe. But once you're part of the environment for more then 5 minutes and do not seem to play seal and barking, they just forget what you wear is less then a kleenex wide.
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I like to be nude and un constricted, Speedo's are way too confine. Therefore if I had to become textile , while swimming I would go baggy. The same reason I am comando when in the textile world. If the swim ware are soggy , as one stated, when out of the water, then take them off, wring them out then put them on again. Puplick restroom and showers ar at most beach,s and pools No problem there.
When I'm in New Jersey,if I'm not at Gunnison Beach, I wear a pair of shorts. I just can't stand the suits you have to buy now. When I go to St. Thomas, I usually wear Joe Snyder capris, which are the equivalent of being nude but essentially cover the basics. Unfortunately, they don't have any nude beaches there. Joe Snyder's are great because they are unlined and paper thin so you really don't feel like you're wearing anything. If you are going to a textile beach, I highly recommend them.
JN
What I find most interesting about this thread is the amount of talk about what people "look" like. If everybody's naked we're all so quick to point out it doesn't matter what you look like, but as soon as you have to put on a swimsuit, it's all about what you look like.