Thursday, 20 November 2025

Speedos Exposed

Slinky descriptions of nine aquatic underpants
1. Grey-and-yellow diagonally striped swimming briefs
(100 per cent polyester)
2. Horizontal-striped swimming briefs
(grey, yellow, white, red and blue)
3. Navy-and-white diagonally striped briefs with red flash
(origin unknown)
4. Swimming briefs with bright abstract diagonal pattern
(34-inch waist)
5. Yellow swimming briefs with navy-and-white stripes on left hip
(navy logo on right hip)
6. Swimming briefs with jade, blue and dark-red abstract pattern
(polyester lining)
7. Swimming briefs with vertically striped abstract pattern
(greyscale and purple)
8. Vertically striped swimming briefs with solid red area and diagonal overstripe
(30-inch waist)
9. Yellow swimming briefs with orange, pale-blue and mid-blue striped pattern on front waist
(classic!)

From Fantastic Man n° 40 – 2025

All these briefs were made between the 1970s and the 1990s.