I had a similar experience as this kid getting all embarrassed because of your clothes.
When I was 12 or 13 at summer camp. Us guys were all swimming in the lake on a warm summer afternoon. I was unsure why I was getting a lot of stares whenever I stood up out of the water very much. I had been to this camp before, and I knew a lot of these kids from previous years, so I was not a strange new kid. I kind of ignored it for as long as I could. Finally when we had to go get dressed for dinner I wrapped up in a towel. But back in the cabin I stopped in front of the mirror, and Oh Crap!! was I embarrassed.
I'd never seen myself in my swim suit when it was wet. There were 3 different colors, a band of black, light blue in the middle and red at the outer edges. When wet, the middle section wasn't transparent but was way more revealing than any 12 year old boy wants. The fact that wet fabric clung to skin.... only made it worse.
I didn't have another pair and we swam more days than not. For the two weeks I was there when we swam I spent as much time underwater as possible and otherwise tried to either cover up.
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Oh yes those embarrassing years being a young lad. I am wondering if you lived in the city or a town. when my cousin would come to visit me (he lived in town) he was always very bashful if anything at all was showing through his swim suit. To make sure that everything was OK he also would wear a pair of underwear under his swim suit. I did ask him once why he wore underwear under his swim suit. He told me that his mother told him he had to wear underwear under his swim suit to make sure nothing was looking out from his swim suit. I just said OK. I never made fun of him because being raised on the farm I never was embarrassed if stuff showed through my swim suit. thanks for sharing your experience. (After a few times visiting me he did finally only wear his swim suit with no underwear under his swim suit).
ReplyDeleteI did grow up in a city, farm boy. I don't think that I was overly modest, but maybe growing up in the country would have made a difference. Even though I was embarrassed, the idea of putting on underwear underneath my swimsuit never occurred to me. Incidentally, my mother bought me the swim suit and she didn't believe me when I returned from camp telling her how much they exposed. It wasn't until I put them on, got wet in the shower and then showed her that she agreed to toss them and buy me a new pair.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, maybe 11 or 12, I was shopping with my mom for new swim trunks. I picked out a pair I really liked. They were all white but had a vertical red and blue stripe on the sides on each hip. I thought they looked patriotic. My mom said I could not get them. "Why not?" "Because they're WHITE. And white will 'show through' when it gets wet." I had no idea what she meant, but she would not allow me to get them. I was so angry at her that day.
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