As a teenager, I regularly went with friends to our local lido – the open air pool – in summer months when it was warm and sunny. We would swim, dive and sunbathe. We always wore Speedos. This is the 1960’s when Speedos, were thin nylon material and very brief. At our lido there was a lifeguard who wore just brief white Speedos, no vest or shorts, just Speedos and a whistle around his neck. As well as sitting in the lifeguard’s chair overlooking the pool he would regularly walk around the pool in a posing manner. He was very dark skinned and so I assumed that he was, at least partially, of Afro-Caribbean origin until one day when I encountered him in the changing room without his Speedos to see that he had a pure white arse, the most incredible speedo tan-lines. I have been interested in tan-lines ever since!
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