[underwearphil]

Further discussion started by Zungaboy concerning what prompts fashion trends.
I quote an article on the style/fashion page of todays Daily Telegraph. Most of the article is an interview with Stella McCartney "Why she ramped up the red in her Union Flag-inspired kit for Team GB". However there is a side article by a Martin Daubney instilled "My Life in Trunks". Here is the article:
Safer in shorts: Martin decides not to take the trunks plunge
Yesterday, the sight of Tom Daley parading in his Team GB swimming trunks brought a tear to the nation’s eye. For some, it was tears of laughter, after Daley, 21, admitted his Stella McCartney creations were “quite small”.
Daley’s tiny trunks were soon named a “He-String” on social media. One wag said: “Budgie smugglers? You couldn’t even get a pickled onion in them.”
But the tears in my eyes were somewhat more morose: for at 45, and now a “comfortable” dad of two, I must accept that my budgie-smuggling days are firmly behind me. For I once proudly wore trunks as uncompromising as Daley’s – when I was six. It was the heatwave of 1976, and my mother wedged me into a pair of bright orange Nylon trunks with Dumbo the elephant on the front.
I adored them and even slept in them during a week’s holiday in Cornwall. My trunks remained small, until puberty – and dignity – made me rethink my relationship with my, ahem, “window display”. First, I progressed to mid-thigh Paul Smith swimming shorts, next Italia 90 England football shorts. But by my mid-thirties, I’d settled into knee-length Bermudas with a tie-waist to avoid unwanted skinny-dipping. I’ve never looked back, because a man’s swimming trunk size should be steadfastly inverse to his age.
Still, all is not lost. I’ve passed the budgie-smuggling baton to my six-year-old son, Sonny. If he sticks with them like Tom Daley, he’ll deserve a medal. For bravery.