As I get more bold and confident and start to publicly wear micro thongs to beaches, pools, resorts, etc. I fully expect to eventually run into someone I know. Whether I handle it with embarrassment or with complete confidence will probably depend on a) what the person says to me and b) who they are. For instance, if I were to run into a mom of one of my sons friends and she complimented me on the look, I’d be flattered. However, if I ran into someone and they ridiculed me publicly or behind my back, I’d be crushed and totally embarrassed.
With that said, I think it would be nice to hear great, funny or embarrassing thong moments from others, how you handled the situation and what the fallout was (good or bad)!
My wife and I use to vacation once a year with my brother and SIL for a long weekend … I got tired of the board shorts and last year we got to the beach and on day one I stripped down to just a Speedo … not a thong, just a Speedo. Nothing was said except a couple jokes from my brother. We haven’t vacationed since. … not sure what they would think of me sitting here in my Skinz M55
Edit to add: I could care less what they thought just a typical mid-west mentality.
One of my old favorites was from when I was 20. Still very new to wearing thong swimsuits. I had ordered a white thong from Skinz that they said was “double lined” to keep it from being see thru when wet. Guess I was young, naive, over trusting or a combo of the three. Didn’t test it ahead of time. Wore it to the apt complex pool and after I got hot I hopped in the pool, cooled off and got out. Was just walking back to my chair when I noticed some of the looks I was getting weren’t the normal looks when I was in a thong. Yep!…was totally see thru. Ooops!
I’ll add one. Maybe five years ago my sons 45 y/o nanny was killing time and folding laundry in the living room. Even though she knew I was in the other room, I heard her ask my son who was 6 at the time…”are these your mommy’s or daddy’s ?” I peaked in and saw her folding up a pair of my black, JM Skinz thongs that clearly were not designed to fit my wife! I know she had folded up other pairs before so not sure if she was hoping I would hear asking about them and would come in and say those are mine?
Not sure what this would fall under but here it goes. I was lucky enough to be stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Any time off I spent at the beach. At first I would just stick with the Speedos, the more I saw others in thongs(this was the late 80’s) I wanted one! That’s a story for another time.! We were assigned to barracks while the ship was in dry dock, bathrooms had gang showers. A buddy wanted to go out to eat so I said sure, let me hit the showers first. While in there, he said don’t take this the wrong way but dude, you have no tan lines! I laughed and told him I just rolled my Speedo up and down to get a good tan. Really I had bought a g-string and tanned in it every chance I got, best tan of my life. Later on that day I fessed up about what I wore to the beach and showed him. He was shocked what little coverage it was. I said I was going to the beach tomorrow and if you’d like to join, cool. When we I got there I dropped my shorts to reveal a tiny black g-string, he was like wow, you’re not kidding. Surprizingly he asked where I got it from. Told him I had another if he wanted to try it out. He did, loved it and we had a great day at the beach. Don’t know if he ever bought one or what his girlfriend thought about his extreme tan. Like to think I had a postive influence!!
I’ll go again since there haven’t been a lot of responses. To stories one day. 1. The wife and I were sitting on the beach (not your traditional thong friendly beach as far as I was aware) and a family sat down about 30’ away. She was fit, he was pretty average, and the kid was 2 or 3. After a while I needed to cool off and it was a ways to get to the water due to the low tide. As I’m coming back I can see him and my wife talking and my first thought was, “Here we go, guy is angry.” As I approached I realize they’re laughing and having a good time. He complimented me on my confidence, said it was something he could never do, and told me he loved that I was living my life on my terms. He also asked if they were legal. I told him I wasn’t 100% sure. His wife left for a few minutes, came back and then removed her cover up to expose a thong. 2. I’m laying out on my back in a Jose Snyder bulge thong and I sit up and see a woman taking my picture. She quickly takes her phone down as she’s embarrassed or felt like she got caught. I give her a friendly wave and a smile. I also get up to cool off and she asks this time if she could take a picture as I approached. I obliged, giving her an opportunity to take a picture of my backside and then I continued to the water.
One of the first times I wore a thong (a “modest” Jack Adams) at a pretty crowded US beach, I stayed at my towel, didn’t really dare walk around. I decided to cool off at the shower, so I pulled on my board shorts which had a back seam that was fused rather than sewn. What I didn’t know is that the fused seam had failed and my butt was probably mostly visible, which must have looked ridiculous. Ditching the boardies would have been a better look. I felt pretty dumb when, as I took them off, I realized they had not been covering much of anything.
As for “running in to someone I know”, I decided to head that off at the pass by just ditching my board shorts as soon as we’ve chosen a place to settle down. The only comments I’ve gotten have been of the form “that’s a flex / I wish I had the guts to wear that”.
Finally, it’s a bummer that Jack Adam discontinued those “Bondi” swim thongs. They were very well made, lined with a drawstring, and they’re great for things like open water swimming, diving, boogie boarding, etc, because they really stay put.
Love Jack Adams. Wish they made more swim thongs. I got the classic one a few years ago and absolutely love it. The Bondi didn’t fit me well so I unfortunately had to return it. I haven’t seen a thong in their new line of swimwear this season.
Few years ago in mid summer, I’m lying in my thong at the beach with my buns up. Group of late teen male volunteer lifesavers just out of high school walk past. Overhear one saying ‘I’d love to do that & wear a thong at the beach. Can’t wait to go on my holidays soon & wear one in Rio [de Janeiro]’
Other time about year later, I’m at the beach in a bright pink thong. Beach is packed & no choice but to lie down among the crowd. Group of young guys fooling around (as they do) notice & one comes up to me with his mates tagging along. Starts talking & says it’s cool & he wouldn’t mind wearing one (mates think that’s pretty funny). He the says ‘do you wear it often’? Another mate then bursts into laughter & says ‘what dja reckon?? Have ya seen how brown his ass is!’
Last year, during the late summer, I was enjoying the day by myself at a hotel pool with drinks and sunshine while wearing a thong. My buns were facing up when I happened to glance up and overheard a guy quietly saying to his lady ‘What’s that guy doing wearing a thong?’ while motioning back to me with his thumb. The woman who was also wearing a thong sharply replied, ‘He’s got a better butt than me!’ I think she was just being supportive.
I was laying face down with my buns up in my Skinz M67 thong and 5-6 twenty something guys walked past and one of them wolf-whistled pretty loud.
At first I was pissed, but then I said to myself I bet that the guy who whistled secretly wishes he had the balls to wear a thong on a crowded public beach.
While not about me wearing a thong, this story is the funniest thong related story I have.
I took a family trip to Cancun with my parents and siblings in 1998. My little brother is 17 years younger than me, and this was his first time traveling on a plane or going anywhere out of the country. Our neighbor had given him some hand me down clothes of her sons, and one of the items was a little speedo. He wore it our first day on the beach. While playing in the sand, we saw a gentleman in a red thong who was…very gifted, and his suit was specifically designed to accommodate him. My brother made no mention of this. However, when we got back to our rooms that evening, he proclaimed to my mom “I don’t like this bathing suit!” Thinking she meant he didn’t like wearing the brief style, she told him he could wear his shorts the next day if he wanted. He then replied, “No, I like it. I just want one like that man on the beach. You know…the one with the big thing in the front.” We all died laughing, and my dad retorted back with “Yeah, I want one with the big thing in front, that’s why I don’t wear those little bitty bathing suits.”
On that same trip, I bought and wore my first beach thongs, two Joe Snyder thongs. Although I didn’t look like the guy we saw on the beach, he helped give me the confidence to finally try a thong.
I can totally relate! I bought a Joe Snyder bikini in white and was mortified when I looked down in the water and saw the suit had gone completely transparent. It was truly naïveté on my part. I was so glad I’d worn it for a night swim and that I was able to get out of the pool without causing a big scene.
I’ve been thonging for a long time so I keep remembering things … I was on folly beach one time about ten years ago in a Joe Snyder bulge thong walking by myself and when you get to the north end there is a sea wall to climb over and then you see the lighthouse. After you meander around some tress there is a sliver of beach that extends up into a waterway across from the lighthouse. If you’ve been there you know what I mean. Usually only walkers and a few people who want to get away from everything are up there. I’m just walking and see a couple butt a** naked going at it. He’s behind her. They see me from a distance and stop what they’re doing. After a few minutes they see I’m not a threat in my atire. … so they start going back at it. She was cute and they both grinned as I walked by. I’m sure they enjoyed showing off as much as I enjoyed the show. When I walked back they were finished and asked me if I wanted a drink. We had a few drinks and we went our separate ways.
… not sure what they would think of me sitting here in my Skinz M55