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The first Speedo brief came in 17.5cm, 12.5cm and 7.5cm widths. The swim brief itself was drawn up in 1960 by Peter Travis, who had arrived as a designer at the company the year before, tasked with designing leisurewear. Speedo pioneered the “racerback” open-shoulder swimming costume for women in 1932 and introduced the nylon swimsuit at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, helping Australia’s swim team to eight out of 13 available gold medals. Speedo the company began life as MacRae and Company Hosiery, founded by Alexander MacRae, a Scottish emigrant to Australia, in 1910. Tom Daley, incidentally, now wears Adidas trunks.
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Other brands are, of course, available – and Speedo the company sells the full range of aquatic attire – but when someone says “Speedo” what comes to mind is, well, budgie smugglers. Whatever your instinctive feelings towards the Speedo swimming brief, you can tell that it is a design classic because the brand has become synonymous with the product – like “hoover” for vacuum cleaner. The hotel responded that the trunks went against their dress code. “They need to stop policing people based on their gender identity and sexuality.” “It so obviously targets LGBTQ+ and non-gender-conforming people,” he argued. In 2018, a man named Chris Donohoe complained that he was the victim of homophobia after being thrown out of a pool party at a hotel in Las Vegas for flouting the “no Speedo” rule. The exalted status of the swim brief in gay iconography goes some way to explaining why it is viewed with such fear and loathing elsewhere. The editor of GQ Style has 51 pairs, including a denim and a knitted pair That’s why Tom Daley wears them to dive in.”īrief encounters: a vintage advert for SpeedoĪs Daley himself once explained to Graham Norton, who wondered why his trunks had to be quite so tight: “If you’re spinning around the last thing you want is to have something come out of place! And when you hit the water you don’t want things flapping about, because it would hurt.” However, if you Google “Tom Daley” and “Speedo”, once you have finished marvelling at his inguinal creases, you’ll appreciate why Out magazine once described this piece of clothing as “the single most perfect and pithy item of clothing ever designed for the male body”. And they’re so much less restrictive than shorts.
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“I like as much exposed skin for tanning as possible. “You have way more freedom in ,” says Luke Day, editor of GQ Style, who has no fewer than 51 pairs “in current circulation”, including a denim pair by Rufskin and a knitted pair by Maria Aristidou, though mostly he prefers plain white.
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But neither is any so liberating, or so practical, say those truly committed to the Speedo and its ilk. None demands such brazenness, such balls. No item in the male wardrobe is so exposing. Laidlaw and his tape measure are long gone, but in certain backwards-looking jurisdictions – Britain, America – the Speedo-wearing male remains an object of discrimination and ridicule. He called the police and had them arrested for indecent exposure. But one morning in 1961, he saw something that astonished even him – men in Speedo trunks. Laidlaw and his inspectorate patrolled the beach with tape measures, methodically escorting scantily clad women away. By the turn of the 1960s, the “Bikini Wars” were in full swing. Seemed odd to me.One of the best-known beach inspectors was Aubrey Laidlaw, who had already laid down the law when the first bikini debuted on the beach in 1946. Two matches I saw pitted grey-haired men in their 50s or 60s against big, muscular men in their 20s. When I asked around about that, it seems the organizers didn't do a great job of pairing up wrestlers.
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Plus, I noticed that several matches were won by forfeit and many did not even last 90 seconds. Gene Dermody (right), who won a gold medal, said that with only 40 competitors in the event it was a smaller group than Gay Games I in 1982. There were some grumblings at wrestling about how the event was being run. However, he is now the president of the Dutch national wrestling federation. And he said the wrestling world in the Netherlands is very homophobic. He remembers hearing anti-gay epithets the day after the closing ceremony in Amsterdam. He remembers hosting the Gay Games in 1998 in Amsterdam and the anti-gay repercussions that followed: His gay wrestling group was not allowed to join the national wrestling federation because of homophobia. Jeroen Tan from the Netherlands is competing. Wrestlers get ringworm from dirt on the mats, and it's a big deal: No street shoes are allowed on the competition floor, and wrestlers are inspected for ringworm before they get onto the mat. One athlete had it and proudly showed me the rings on his neck as a badge of courage. I'd never seen ringworm until I visited the wrestling venue.