I was always wondering, what is up with US and swimming briefs? What made them unpopular or even funny/creepy in US while they are perfectly fine almost everywhere else in the world?
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.co...s-swim-briefs/ some old random article which is saying that jammers are the top notch thing there.
While I can slightly understand how briefs could be ridiculous to some people, those clownish jammers are even much much more ridiculous than briefs.
Ps: Personally I wear something like this when going to the pool:
But do not mind briefs as well.
Same as going to the beach (although light shorts are a good option then as well).
And jammers just look clownish, I do not think I have seen anybody wearing things like that in the pool:
(and no, I was not looking for the most ridiculous image, just grabbed one from wiki page)