surf trunks

Premodern Hawaiian surfers rode in the nude, and surfers in the early decades of the 20th century for the most part used the same type of bathing suits worn by nonsurfing beachgoers. Sometime in the late '20s or early '30s, Sam Kahanamoku, Outrigger Canoe Club member and brother of Hawaiian surfing pioneer Duke Kahanamoku, is said to have discarded the woolen two-piece tank top "swimming togs" in ...