I had completely forgotten about this until last week when talking with another former swimmer. In HS, the conclusion of our swim season was a series of three meets: the class preliminaries, class finals, and state open. We would shave for either the prelims or finals. It has already been discussed here about athletes shaving, but I had forgotten that between the meets, we would wear panty hose during workouts to increase drag. Surprisingly the joking about boys wearing panty hose was minimal, but I wonder how many others secretly looked forward to this time of year. I had worn panties and some girls things before this, but even now some 30 years later, I can still recall the feeling of putting on the hose over freshly shaven legs was incredible. Most of us would shave our legs every day or every other day for the 2 to 3 weeks that the meets occurred over to minimize stubble and irritation. If I recall, we'd let the arms grow and reshave each meet, but the legs were done more frequently during the span. I have to believe this all heightened my curiosities.
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Originally Posted by JenX
