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male swimming costume, speedos: Hang on, I just have to adjust my swimming trunks. Compare bathers, cossie, costume, cozzie, swimmers, swimsuit, togs.
Contributor's comments: Also used in NSW by my older relatives when I was a kid in the 1970s.
Contributor's comments: male swimming atire: "I put on my trunks to go swimming."
Contributor's comments: Have almost always used "bathers", occasionally "trunks" - brought up in Melbourne.
Contributor's comments: Growing up in the UK, mens' swimwear was always referred to as trunks. Womens' swimwear was a costume.
Contributor's comments: Trunks in the 1950's refered to those woollen swim shorts with the modesty flap and a belt, they were uncomfortable and heavy. in the 1950's togs were ased for general swimming costumes and trunks for those wool shorts.
Contributor's comments: Used in NSW when I was a child in 1940s & 50s.