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What are you wearing to the beach this summer? Last year, Simon Doonan bemoaned the swimwear of American men and led a rallying cry for more fellas to don Speedos. The piece is reprinted below. My ...

Every year I scan the beaches for men in Speedos and every year I am disappointed. The ridiculous board-shorts trend shows no sign of waning, writes Simon Doonan. Summer is here, and again I am ...

1. What did men swim in, historically? Survey Greek urns or Roman frescoes and the answer is clear—throughout antiquity, men went swimming in the nude. As with many moves toward prudishness, the ...

Here in the States, we've pretty much fallen all over ourselves coming up with cleverly insulting names for the male Speedo--banana hammock, anyone?--but it looks like even the Euros have recently ...

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