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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former female swimmer here and now parent of a young swimmer. One thing I have noticed is that the teenage and college age girl swimmers are basically walking around with their butts hanging out of their suits. Like they have wedgies that they don't bother fixing. This was not a thing when I was a swimmer and I would have felt self conscious walking around like that. But these girls seems to have more self confidence than I do, or maybe it's just not something that anyone cares about anymore. They are more muscular than we were 20 years ago so maybe they're like hey it's just glute muscles. I think the popular training suits, like Jolyn, have less coverage in the back now too. If a mom posted some photos of their daughter's team on the pool deck all wearing their training suits (or just regular competition suits but not the leg suits), I can see how one might be a little taken aback. It raised some eyebrows among moms of tween boys on our summer team. But it's just how the girls are wearing their suits nowadays.[/quote]

[b]This is not how the girls wear bathing suits these days[/b]. This is how manufacturers make bathing suits and leotards these days. My daughter had two options for her swim team suit - minimal coverage, and cheeky. This was the racing suit! It was noticeably different (i.e. less coverage) from even two years ago. I see this in gymnastics too, and in the town pool female lifeguard bathing suits. I find it incredibly sexist that the girls’ attire is getting skimpier and more uncomfortable while the boys wear bike shorts. [/quote]

I am telling you, there is a group of HS/college age ladies (including mine) who absolutely prefer to wear their practice/leisure suits this way. For example, in summer swim, many of the teen girls do not buy the official team suit in favor of a solid Jolyn with significantly less cheek coverage. Jolyn has a variety of coverage, they choose less. Girls who want more coverage tend to buy another brand.

I agree it is an issue if there isn't a choice for everyone on the team to be comfortable. The required suit on my daughter's HS team is a full coverage Jolyn. It looks like good coverage online, but I would hope that if there was a girl who still wanted more that she would be allowed to choose another brand with a solid suit of the same color. No coach should keep a kid from participating over this. There was a DQ issue a few years ago (in Alaska if I remember correctly) regarding proper uniform bum coverage. I believe it was overturned; if it is a required team suit, it isn't going to cover all bums the same, and I don't know how common a rule like this is. I have never seen anything like it in this area.

Personally, this is not an issue I choose to have. If my daughter is comfortable on a pool deck, I keep my mouth shut. She is old enough to choose every suit she wears. [/quote]

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