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Carlson, I Can’t Believe I Did That!: Instinctive Behavior in Humans, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 52:", "text": "A typical female swimsuit is brief and form fitting, while males normally wear large, shapeless, boxer-short type swimwear.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2009, Susan Ward, “Swimwear”, in Valerie Steele, editor, The Berg Companion to Fashion, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, published 2019, →ISBN, page 672, column 1:", "text": "Around 1940, the looser boxer-short style, usually boldly patterned, became another popular alternative, with matching short-sleeved sports shirts worn as cover-ups.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2010, Rick Wilber, Rum Point: A Baseball Novel, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 13:", "text": "Swimming trunks, that’s all he had on; blue ones, boxer-short style, with an orange “F” on them.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2010, Piers Paul Read, The Misogynist, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN, page 155:", "text": "[…] suggests to Jomier that this too – this dislike of heat and glare and heat rash and sand in his socks – his grey pink-spotted body in boxer-short trunks next to Max’s bronzed hirsute torso on the puttering caique – was part of the ‘not blame exactly . . .’ – the qualities that were not his fault but surely contributed to her mother’s disenchantment.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2013, Frank Bill, Donnybrook, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 133:", "text": "Kicked his bare, boxer-short legs apart, taking Poe’s movement from him.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2016, Steve Howard, Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir, Ohio University Press, →ISBN:", "text": "As we reached the river bank, I noted with dread that everyone was swimming in their boxer-short-type underwear.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2017, Todd Barry, Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg: One Comedian’s Tour of Not-Quite-the-Biggest Cities in the World, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 241:", "text": "So I put on my Speedo (boxer-short style, not “Ew, gross” style) and went downstairs.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2017, Rebecca Chance, Killer Affair, Pan Books, →ISBN:", "text": "The swimsuit she had brought with her, a drab high-necked Speedo style, had long been discarded as too droopy and big for her slimmer figure; she had splurged last month – over a hundred pounds! – for a mauve and white polkadot Miracle Suit at Debenhams. 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