JamesSwim's post today
A bit of clarification needed here:
What you have posted as a quote from NakedBudd is largely my post of 03-11-2012 and his post of 04-25-2012 quotes part of that and adds his own recollection of the Parr suit in chamois with D rings (and yes, I can just about remember that one too now that he mentions it).
Now to side lace-ups (for want of a better description):
The Jantzen guy in red (and hilariously smoking a pipe as pointed out by LapCounter) is in my opinion a figment of some artist's imagination as,
to my knowledge, Jantzen never produced a suit with such lattice-work fabric at the hips (and such an odd design would be out of keeping with their generally good taste).
Lace-up sides certainly existed in some swimsuit designs , for pulling the suit to fit - as an alternative to what we all know as the drawstring waist cord. They never looked very stylish however which no doubt accounted for their short life in the stores. I will post a pic if I can find one but all signs seem to be that they went the way of the dinosaur.
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