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| Jeans and T-shirts: Swimwear for Individualists |
Style isn't about money, it is about ideas and classic designs.
One of the nicest swimming outfits you can wear is a pair of jeans, a tee-shirt, and possibly canvas shoes.
You don't have to spend much.
It's about mixing and matching and getting things that fit properly.
Express your individuality with classic denim swimwear for sun safety and more modesty.
In aquatic environments where a neoprene wetsuit isn't necessary,
or where just suiting-up can be inconvenient,
jeans are worn with a T-shirt or rash guard, with fins for diving,
or with rescue gear by water safety patrol professionals.
In the 1960's jeans became popular as classic swimwear for outdoor activities and watersports,
especially swimming, surfing, and scuba diving.
These are the jeans that made Levi-Strauss famous.
Arriving stiff and in a deep indigo colour when new, these jeans may take a few swims to break in,
at which point they will fit like a second skin and be faded to a mellow lighter blue.
We've tested the Shrink-to-Fit 501XX (STF) and the regular 501 to compare them with regular swimwear like shorts.
Popular Use
Jeans are common for spearfishing dives on the oil rigs.
They keep your flesh from being shredded if you get dragged across a barnacle encrusted pipe by a large fish.
They also are worn over wet suits to protect them.
Helldivers and other rig divers in Louisiana wear jeans with sweat shirts.
Even a few commercial divers in the Gulf wear nothing but jeans and flannel shirts or hoodies.
In the South and Southwest USA they wear jeans to almost all activities, at one time or another.
People swim and dive in jeans all the time.
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