Terminology
 

http://th01.deviantart.net/fs/71/PRE..._b-d3kstsx.jpg (hoping this opens)
A useful reference chart which I would have hung on the wall of every newspaper feature writer in the land - and who would want to see also square cut and sungas written in the last box?

It doesn't.....

true
 

Am working on it (an almost impossible site to track where I was)

You got it !
 

Thanks Jackk - where would I be without techie back-up?
(STS was able to unravel a messy one too a while back)

see what I mean?
 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk//i/pix/2013...88_306x817.jpg

This is Ryan Lochte in his new Speedo* at a Vancouver competition, May 2013.
The pic is part of a Daily Mail report which says ".....his ripped body is in tiny Speedo swimming trunks......" - and then goes on to say ".......he stood in the exceedingly tiny shorts....." ; all so reminiscent of the nonsense written on what the last James Bond actor was wearing as he emerged from the sea.

*makes me wonder whether Speedo are getting desperate for new design ideas
- the strange side panel doesn't work for me I'm afraid.

I would love to be a speedo designer... Pity I would be the black sheep of the family if I did. Ill stick to graphic design.

Design your dream speedo and I could make it for you........
Pvt message me if you want to.

Ill do it one of these days. Lemee Pm you some designs and you can give me a cost... What is it with peoples terminology with swimwear. I feel more modest in my 4" speedo than a pair of boardies. No tentpole or shorts sticking to my balls.

quite right
 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/0a5707575...ui6o1_1280.jpg
Give me a decent speedo any day.

I made these Knikon:

http://www.mensswimsuitboard.com/for...read.php?t=716

pool attire
 

We know what is required in France by the simple signs displayed at their pools but it seems that in DC the DPR gives out far more detail on the regulations:
http://www.popville.com/2013/07/dpr-...-for-dc-pools/

Your basketball shorts must be left at home but you can bring your long* swim briefs and your short swim briefs.

*what this contradiction in terms means is beyond my comprehension but the illustration of long appears to show jammers.

What they have listed as a swim thong actually looks like a G string.

the rules
 

LOL - looks ok also to wear your underpants as long as they are not white
(it would seem the DPR needs a competent person in the R section who knows something about swimmers and swimming to do a redraft!)