<p>Speedos are such a huge faux pas in the US, but when we go to Europe in the summer I get a big chuckle watching my boys’ faces as they watch the guys at the beach strip down to nothing…and then into their Speedos. It’s just one of those things that hasn’t made its way across the ocean.</p>
<p>Until DS finds a GF or until a someone finds him, DM, will be buying him clothes. DS complains but currently its either DM or nothing. </p>
<p>I’m thinking in wearing coullets when I bike in the summer. More bigger ventilation. Speedos are fine for the winter but we’re hitting the 60 now. A few more degrees, it will be summer. :)</p>
<p>I was surprised that PE in jrhi/hs is very tame. So tame that no one ever showers. Modesty is a bit over hyped.</p>
<p>Gourmetmom - Last summer my S2 went to France with his class. NONE of the boys in his group were allowed to enter the pool. They were told that their US swimsuits were classified as shorts. When I asked what the French boys were wearing he got a real weird look on his face and started to laugh. He must have seen the same “vision” as your boys did!</p>
<p>I’ll have to send this to my DS. When he went off to college, he became really interested in clothes (asked for a pocket watch at Christmas!) …and he flosses!</p>
<p>My husband keeps promising to buy a Speedo and wear it, but he always chickens out. Europeans are definitely less self-conscious about body image. Folks of all ages and body types will wear just about anything to the pool or beach. I’m glad, because it’s incredibly fun to watch, but I’ll stick to my tankini, thank you very much.</p>
<p>My H wears Speedos sometimes because he likes to swim and he hates the way those long swim shorts feel on his legs. I don’t really care one way or another. You know what would be a dealbreaker though? If he was a body-builder muscley type AND wore a speedo. What saves H is that he is a string bean and clearly doesn’t care about making an impression. </p>
<p>I don’t like soul patches much either but as long as Apollo Anton Ohno sports one, I guess I’ll have to give them a pass. Wish he would shave his off though.</p>
<p>You know, reading this article, I was thinking no wonder there are so many single women. They’re so picky! Then I got to the pancake line and thought, all’s well that ends well.</p>
<p>In his leasure time, my H wears ratty RL polo shirts and holey Calvin Klein khakis, but they are retired work clothes that he managed to stain or ruin by picking up a cat who did not want to be picked up!</p>
<p>mousegray, I’m with you on the “young Arnold” type in Speedos not looking attractive :).</p>
<p>oh if only my H would wear polos- he looks really good in them, but he likes sweatshirts and tee shirts that don’t fit.</p>
<p>Speaking of " really broken down" clothes, David Sedaris has a story about wearing clothes that " are already destroyed".
I balk at paying more for something that looks like it was salvaged, but Sedaris had a good point to make. He said he was really hard on clothes, and even though it cost more to buy a cashmere sweater that looks like it had been wrested away from two tigers, he doesn’t worry about * ruining* it, because it is already wrecked!</p>
<p>I had never thought of that. I am hard on my clothes myself ( it doesn’t help that when I am on my way out the door, I stop to pull a couple weeds and an hour later I am moving rosebushes), so maybe I should rethink about rejecting something that fits perfectly because it has a hole.</p>