Yes, college teams still wear brief Speedos!

[Swimmboy]

http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com...o-open-season/

The US college meet season has begun (though these early meets are more for fun and tune-ups, not serious head-to-head competition). But here is photographic evidence that teams still wear the brief suits for most of their in-season meets.

[shaulis]

When college's have swim meets I hardly ever see briefs just jammers. Maybe those colleges only let the swimmers wear briefs at some meets not the big meets.

[California Dolphin]

Glad that briefs are making a strong comeback.

But I hope they will eventually get rid of jammers for once and for all.

[Swimmboy]

shaulis wrote:

When college's have swim meets I hardly ever see briefs just jammers. Maybe those colleges only let the swimmers wear briefs at some meets not the big meets.


Yes - at the big meets such as conference championships and NCAA championships in Feb. and March, most swimmers wear jammers. But that is only two meets per year - at the meets in Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec., and Jan., i.e., the vast majority of college meets - most swimmers compete in brief suits. So check your local college's athletic dept. web site, attend some of their home fall and winter swim meets, and enjoy!

[miloandtock1]

Yes the dual meets or tri-meets or smaller non-divisional meets - the men's team all wear speedos of some style. I can vouch for that at Purdue, the dual meet a couple weeks ago against Western Kentucky all the Purdue men wore their team black speedo with the Purdue logo.

[Dooley67]

This morning I went to the Y to swim my laps and was a little irritated to see that the swim team from the high school across the river was using the pool for a practice and what looked like an intrasquad meet. So I was relegated to the other pool, the one whose water temperature is 85. I managed to literally sweat out 18 laps before calling it quits.

What was interesting to see was that many of the guys were wearing briefs with the rest wearing jammers. It looked pretty evenly divided. So, high school guys are wearing briefs, not only for their meets, but for practice as well.

D67

[California Dolphin]

Originally Posted by Dooley67

This morning I went to the Y to swim my laps and was a little irritated to see that the swim team from the high school across the river was using the pool for a practice and what looked like an intrasquad meet. So I was relegated to the other pool, the one whose water temperature is 85. I managed to literally sweat out 18 laps before calling it quits.

What was interesting to see was that many of the guys were wearing briefs with the rest wearing jammers. It looked pretty evenly divided. So, high school guys are wearing briefs, not only for their meets, but for practice as well.

D67

Anyone who's worn them*** know that Jammers are very irritating and restrictive of movement. Once the rational wears off that jammers are magically faster, swimmers will go back to briefs.

*** I bought a couple of packages of jammer style underwear (because they were on sale, not because I liked them) and tried them on. The feeling is horrible and that's the end of my experience with wearing long legged shorts of any type.

[sebbie]

Guys buy and wear jammers mainly because they think they cover more, and the shape pf their anatomy will be less obvious to onlookers, if at all. But I've seen photos of guys in (wet?) jammers whose anatomy(ies) was (were) painfully obvious, moreso than had they been wearing a brief, even. I suppose a person could wear a really snug strap underneath to minimize the bump, but that may be merely painful when swimming.

This is part of the old "double standard". Women delight in showing off the curves and bumps of the female anatomy, and no one even gives it all a second thought. But the bumps and curves of the male anatomy are a no-no. Weird!

Sebbie

[Torchwatch]

I was in the changing room getting ready to leave the pool as the club swimmers came in. They were wearing speedos under their jammers, so perhaps jammers don't give the support that these swimmers were wanting.

When I tried a pair of Maru Lycra jammers I disliked how they felt in the water. They didn't give free movement and constantly felt they were about to fall down.
I wear Lycra cycle shorts all the time on my bikes, they feel right sliding across the saddle. When I wore my Maru jammers around the campsite and when walking to and from the beach they felt ok, but I just don't like them in the water.

I notice this winter that a lot of young people are wearing tight jeans, last summer the fashion was for fairly tight knee length denim shorts. So maybe if we get a decently warm spring and summer we will get back to shorter freer shorts and maybe more speedos.

[sebbie]

The bands made up of teen boys set the trends in male fashion, and whatever works for them gets to be part of the larger scene. That the girls oggle the boy bands is not lost on other teen males, and they emulate. Soon the idea becomes widely adopted.

Boy bands were among the first to show up in pencil jeans, often black but other colors like kahki or stone too

If boy bands sung in brief swimwear, that would becopme the style too.