--- title: 100 Years of Men's Swimwear Fashion in 3 Minutes: Video description: A very revealing video—in more ways than one canonical: https://time.com/3988728/100-years-mens-swimsuit-fashion/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-07T15:08:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:10.484Z og:title: 100 Years of Men's Swimwear Fashion in 3 Minutes: Video og:description: A very revealing video—in more ways than one og:url: https://time.com/3988728/100-years-mens-swimsuit-fashion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 100 Years of Men's Swimwear Fashion in 3 Minutes: Video twitter:description: A very revealing video—in more ways than one twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See 100 Years Of Men's Swimsuit Fashion In 3 Minutes by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 7, 2015 3:08 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 7, 2015 3:08 PM UTC Before you hit the beach this weekend to ogle at the array of board shorts, Speedos and everything in between littering the seaside, take a quick gander through men’s swimsuit history with this video. This look back through swimwear history is very revealing — in more ways than one. The slightly racy video from [Mode Glam](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrKE6lsllHfJgcUexz3BBhA), starts all the way back in 1915, which is when men first donned bathing attire, according to the site. The vintage swimsuit could double as long underwear, a look that had only marginally improved by 1925 when men’s swimwear bore an uncanny resemblance to a wrestling singlet. As fashion’s long march continued, the parade of bathing beauties hit the beach in smaller and smaller swimwear, hitting their peak in the 1970s. While the 1980s are generally known as a time of excess at least their swimwear was moderate. _Read next:_ [_Watch a Woman Recreate 100 Years of Fitness Trends in 100 Seconds_](http://time.com/3763454/100-years-fitness-100-seconds-video/?iid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3988728/100-years-mens-swimsuit-fashion/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3988728/100-years-mens-swimsuit-fashion/"},"headline":"See 100 Years Of Men's Swimsuit Fashion In 3 Minutes","datePublished":"2015-08-07T15:08:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:10.484Z","description":"A very revealing video—in more ways than one","url":"https://time.com/3988728/100-years-mens-swimsuit-fashion/","keywords":["Newsfeed","History","fashion","Clothing"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3988728/100-years-mens-swimsuit-fashion/","name":"See 100 Years Of Men's Swimsuit Fashion In 3 Minutes"}}]}] ```