I started smaller swimweart with a Laguna bikini in yellow.  It became semi-sheer when wet and you had to be standing within 10 feet to see.  But it really looks good and wife liked it.

Dore' has many mesh thongs, g's, and bikinis.  They look good and get moe sheer when wet. 

It's a personal preference.  I have several ones from Ziggy Anne that get sheer and they fit great.

You might also try Aussie Bum, an Australian company that sells tons of bikinis down under and they are high quality (and priced).

On the subject of taste...

Mostly personal and cultural isn't it? I've got mine and as we well know, others might not agree with it!   ....   . Does everything in life have to line-up in the same row?

Be Cool... accept that some of us are different in our values of taste. Most of us are thong wearers; so, already we have much in common...

I have a set of sheer-when-wet thongs from--dare I say it--Walmart and they are pretty neat. They are sold as men's underwear and come in sets of red, white and blue. As you can imagine, the white one is really see-through. That one I only wear on the remote beaches on the Outer Banks where it is legal to thong but not to nude(!!). You used to be able to buy fishnet underwear at Sears but they weren't thongs.

A funny thing about Parr of Arizona. I had bought some thongs from them years ago. I happened to be in Phoenix about two years ago and managed to get to the shop. Would you believe they are closed one day a week and that was the day I was there.

Anyway, I kinda like the sheer when wet outfits. I even saw a guy at our local pool wearing plain white boxers with nothing underneath. They were see through, at least where the material was touching the skin. He was aware of it and was trying to keep himself covered.

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Indeed, that's an acquired taste. It's just that, to me, the male genitals behind a sheer or semi-sheer fabric somehowdon't look right.

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Maybe they are an "acquired taste", but they are a fact of life!  YOU may prefer seeing females' anatomy. others may prefer that of males! Some may like both, and others none, but whatever you like or dislike, the anatomy has been here for many millions of years, and nobody's dislikes are going to change it, or make it go away!

Personally, I like the move towards sheer and semi-sheer materials. Its much more attractive and exciting than the totally bare body, whether male of female, and of those I like both.

kernow

I have a yellow Skinz string thong, which becomes semi-sheer when wet. One time when I was at Barton Springs Pool

in Austin, I got out of the pool, and was headed to the restroom. The restroom inside the pool area was closed, so people were directed to go to the one located on the outside, near the parking lot. Leaving the pool area and going outside the fence requires walking out the main entrance, past those who are standing in line to pay their admission.

Two female lifeguards were hanging around just inside the gate, and I stopped and asked one of them if it was okay to walk outside wearing my g-string. " Sure, nobody will say anything ", she replied.  I confidently walked past all of those in line, and made my way towards the restroom. There were a lot of people hanging around outside the main entrance and parking lot.  I made it to the restroom, and then realized that I had taken my skimpy bathing suit beyond the confines of the pool area, and some people that may have never been to that pool before, or seen a man in a thong, must have got a real eyeful. The thought of having to walk back into the pool, past all of those people, with nothing else on but my tiny g-string..

I had no choice but to go back the way I came. The suit  was still wet from being in the pool. I had never had it wet before, so I did not know that it would reveal so much. I got less than 20 feet out of the restroom, and a lady that was walking directly towards me, said " I've seen it all now " .  Now, I knew that everyone that was sure to gawk at me, was going to see it. Luckily nobody made any bad comments, and I made it back to the entrance.

When I went through the gate, the two lifeguard girls were still standing there. I thought I would stop and talk to them some more, and maybe it would relax me a little. I asked them when the inside restroom was going to re-open, and they said it was supposed to be open by the next weekend.  I said that I was somewhat nervous, walking past all of those people outside, bare assed, in my G.

" I think most of them were looking at something else. " one of the girls said as she looked down   "This place is pretty laid back, you know some girls go topless here ?"

  " Yes ", I said,  " I saw some of those".  I looked to my right, and a girl was walking towards us, wearing a purple g-string bottom, no bigger than mine, and was topless. She obviously knew the lifeguards, and stopped when she got to us. " I knew girls sometimes laid out topless here, but I have never seen one walking around like that. " I said.

 The topless girl was checking out my suit, and said " Damn, you go boy ! " 

" He had to go outside to the restroom", one of the girls said.

 " Well, I am going out to my car to get my cellphone. ", the topless girl said. 

 With that, she walked right out the gate, and into the parking lot.   The lifeguards looked at me and laughed.

By then my suit was just about dry.  I told the girls that I was going to go back to my towel, on the other side of the pool.  The next time I went back there, the inside restrooms were open, and I felt much more comfortable in my  suit. I did stay out of the pool though. I didn't want to be quite so revealing with a sheer, wet suit again.

A few years back I purchased the Pocket thong from Undergear in yellow. I never realized that when a discription doesn't say lined, that in may be Unlined. I wore it to a pool party a  freinds house. It fit me very well, I mean you could see the outline fairly well.  Not many comments from the freinds either.

Then after spending about an hour in the pool I climbed out to get another beer. 3 of the women who were there looked directly at my suit, smiled, then one of them made a comment about not ever haveing to try to guess what I looked like naked. Now they knew !!! When I caught on I thru on a pair of shorts. At least untill it was time to swim again... What the hell they already saw everything once.

Lately I have been buying midcut/squarecut styles from undergear. I bought 2 Classic midcuts (they are lined) in purple and coral and bought 2 Aussie Rowers Midcuts (Not lined) in royal blue and fusia. The classic deffinately show my shape, the Aussies show my shape and a bit more. Oh and talk about comfort. The Aussies feel like your not wearing anything.

I look for suits that are lighter colors like yellow and white becuase I think that they look best against a dark tan. Since virtually all of the suits I've worn through the years have been unlined, I've faced the transparent when wet situation many times. It's not much of a problem for suits that sort of hang on my body, but the really skin tight suits can be very embarrassing.

I've never had the guts to go to a hotel pool wearing a thing in the U.S. although I have done it at resorts in places like Jamaica. My strategy when I get wet is usually to go back to my towel and dry off before I walk anywhere. On a hot day, these thin fabric suits dry out very quickly. I've never heard any negative comments about the transparency situation, and in recent years very few comments about my small suits in general.

My advise is to be discrete. Don't flaunt the fact that everything is visible, and I would avoid the suits that are transparent all the time. Those suits are sort of an invitation to trouble.

I wore a bright orange unlined Rise bikini to swim in at the gym today.  It is surprisingly comfortable and stays up.  It leaves nothing to the imagination, but no one saw anything until I got out.  But after 50 minutes straight of swimming, I really didn't care.  After I dry, it is straight to the showers anyway.  (The pool is outside and there usually aren't many people there any way.

I suppose I should check on how they feel about members in a thong.  It wouldn't be much less than what I wore today.

Good morning all.  I have been wearing (to my husbands great pleasure) the WW brand for 3 years now and yes the lighter colors are a bit transparent.  And he wears the Dore' low cut thongs and bikins (to my delight) that gives a nice outline of him (I like that look for him).

Jenny

Navel

Ujena do a couple of sheer when wet standard one peices - http://www.ujena.com/bikini-details.php?cid=23&pid=1233&st=sheer+when+wet & http://www.ujena.com/bikini-details.php?cid=23&pid=1071&st=sheer.

They use to do a one piece thong but it is no longer on the site. There is a small pic of it at http://www.myshopgirl.com/sheer-swimwear.html?osCsid=9 (lower left) but the link is invalid.

There are some bikini's at http://www.sheerwhenwetswimsuit.com/shop/ but don't what they are like as a company

My wife and I were in Playa Del Carmen last year. She was wearing a sheer WW thong. She had bought an ultra thin front rio bikini in blue mesh from HEswimwear.com that covered about 25% of my rear. It was very skimpy. It also pretty much disappeared when wet.

After about an hour on the beach (no problems), she wanted to cool off. When we got out of the water, the only cover I had was the outline of the seams. I was a bit embarrased because we had to walk about 75 yards in through avery crouded beach back to our towels. Seems the only one concerned was me. No one seemed to notice or care.

We spent the next 3 days nearly nude in our see through suits at the beach and pool and had a blast with no problems at all.