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Down Under: 1910

By 1910, men's bathing costumes were sleeveless and cut off at mid-thigh. However, as required by some bylaws, many male bathers, such as this group, wore trunks over their one-piece suits.
-- Encyclopedia of New Zealand
New Zealand circa 1910. "Unidentified bathers, probably at Christchurch." Dry plate glass negative by Steffano Francis Webb. View full size.

By 1910, men's bathing costumes were sleeveless and cut off at mid-thigh. However, as required by some bylaws, many male bathers, such as this group, wore trunks over their one-piece suits.

-- Encyclopedia of New Zealand

New Zealand circa 1910. "Unidentified bathers, probably at Christchurch." Dry plate glass negative by Steffano Francis Webb. View full size.

 

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Gentlemen

check your weapons at the door, please. We run a respectable establishment here.

I see

There a couple of cool cats right here. Nothing like a little eye candy to go with my morning coffee.

Please --

Bring back the freakin' cats.

Overwear

As Esposito decrees in "Bananas," "The people must change their underwear every day, and to make sure, they must wear it on the outside." (Or words to that effect -- I don't have the script handy). For better or worse, this is definitely a Kiwi "look," and prescient, too.

One hundred years later

I still see men jogging around town wearing shorts over their sweatpants so I guess everything old is new again. Does the expression "plum smugglers" ring a bell?

Talk about unflattering

They mostly look like a combination of diapers pulled over striped rags, but I forgive the boys if I can just meet the Grecian god third from the left and lose myself in those beautiful eyes.

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