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Message # 19290.1.1 Subject: Re: Yayness! It's Global WAMming :-) Date: Mon 14/11/05 08:54:29 GMT Name: Lewis Tollani |
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It's prolly the ''hundredth monkey effect'' -- once enough people do it, it becomes socially acceptable, as the ''ridicule barrier'' has been removed (it's always harder to be the first to get wet, than to get wet among fellow clothed swimmers) Or, as it becomes more globally normal, ''Global Wamming'' :-)
Now, all we want is for the same to happen in public pools -- i.e. for lifeguards and pool management to trust wammers enough to wear clean clothes (no sweat fluff or dye leakage) in indoor pools! That's the biggest remaining hurdle to clear :-) |
In reply to Message (19290.1) Re: Is the trend toward more wet clothing?
By sjakie - Mon 14/11/05 03:17:54 GMT I have noticed that in the Netherlands more girls swim in jeans and a t-shirt the last years. Ten years ago it was sometimes a shirt. (I am talking about 16 - 18 year old girls). None of these girls where throwing in. They just jump or walk in fully clothed.
Maybe it is the freedom we all have now. No parents who say you must wear a bathing suit in the water. Swim in whatever you like, wherever you want. Omly the public swimmingpools had rules about your swimming costume.
When it is raining very hard most people going through in there clothes, without bother they got wet. It is just cotton. You can change it at home. I see lot of people through the rain totally wet and having fun. Ten years ago people wearing a raincoat and a rainpants through the rain, or wait till the rain is gone.
There are more activities in and around the water now then in the early years. I talking about building a raft, canoeing, survivor games, kwalleballen, ponderslaan, polderloop, wadlopen etc. And we got wet by every of those activities, and we like it.
A lot of people have a swimmingpool in the garden now. And when they have a party in their garden there is always someone jumping or trowning in. And we in Holland have an expression. "If there is one sheep over the dyke, a lot sheeps wil follow". And every house has a bath, a shower.
Yes there are more people getting wet the last years. And I am not complaining.
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In reply to Message (19290) Is the trend toward more wet clothing?
By John - Sun 13/11/05 18:05:04 GMT Website: http://www.thejeanpool.com/ I've been noticing that some of the picture sets from webshots and other places show many people getting wet in their clothes at clubs, backyard pools and fountains, etc. In some sets it's obvious that people are accustomed to getting their clothes wet. One caption read "why do we always end up in the pool with all clothes on?". It seems to be becoming the cool thing to swim in your jeans rather than bothering to change into a suit.
A question for those who have been with this forum for years (I've been here only 1 year): Is there more of an apparent trend toward wet clothes and away from bathing suits, or are things about the same as they have been for the last few years?
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