Getting Hit-on While Speedo Shopping

[Thom]

I can't say this happened to me and I live in South Florida! Granted, my suits don't come from the stores rather online. I can't say I'm interested in getting hit on by dad bods either, lol.

25 years ago, before things shifted to e-sales, Miami/FTL had all sorts of specialty shops with speedos. There were a couple on Lincoln Road, two or three on Las Olas, and also in that shopping center east of the 17th ST bridge, a store run by someone from Canada. He sold mostly speedos, but also a few Arena and other suits. I read a little French, and I was thumbing through a magazine for French Canadian tourists a few years ago that had an article in French about how young Canadians didn't want to wear speedos like their fathers did. The handwriting was on the wall.

[blueflinch]

I would have found it disturbing, but I only realized it when he unlocked the door. After that it did give me pause. I guess people here are more adventurous than we are. Or I lead a sheltered life. That's it, I lead a sheltered life. It was also twenty-five years ago when I was younger. Today, they'd probably lock me out, not in.

Well, you're still with us in one piece. All's well that ends well, right?

[Thom]

Well, you're still with us in one piece. All's well that ends well, right?

Yes. Chalk it up to experience. One thing I do miss is all the shops in Fort Lauderdale and Miami that sold brief suits. They were high mark-up items for tourist-oriented stores. In Boston, were I'm from originally, there was a really good speedo shop that sold a variety of brands, including the Spanish Meyba line of suits. Designed more for resort wear than doing laps, they lacked a draw string. The European lycra was very light and silky. Pefect anatomical cut, they were like wearing nothing at all. I never wore mine swimming, because I wanted to preserve it. Meyba makes mainly soccer shirts, shorts, and shoes. The only suits I've seen are board shorts.