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100 years of men's swimwear or men's swimwear through history

100 years of men's swimwear.

Some time ago we looked at women's swimwear through history, but now it's time for a historical overview of men's swimwear. From overalls to miniskirts, even men's swimwear has a colorful path behind it. Do you want any of the trends to come back on the scene?

Like a woman she also went men's swimwear through many changes in the last 100 years. The first men's swimsuits resembled more than swimsuits jumpsuit and only after the First World War were they made of a polyamide-like material, which in combination with elastane (an elastic fiber made of polyurethane) has survived to this day. Until minimum (swimsuit-like bottoms) was still a long time, because you had to wait until in 1935.

READ MORE: Women's swimwear through history

100 years of men's swimwear in three minutes.
100 years of men's swimwear in three minutes.

What happened to the swimsuit in between and what after, and watch it in the video clip above.

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