Forget your swimwear?

Fear not. As a nation, we love getting our kit off and parading up and down beaches in swimwear all glistening, ripped and tanned. The boys that like girls tend to go for the surfer style shorts that these days are more trouser-like than anything resembling the good old Village People day of cut off butt-cheek revealing shorts.

The boys that like boys are all Brazilian male in beach style, preferring the speedo brief posing pouch look or the trendier 70's look faux pocket tan and cream shorts (see above reference to Village People).

If you packed in a hurry and left the swimwear behind, we have a myriad of surf and sport shops to choose from that most malls can offer. If you hanker after your Dolce & Gabanna set sitting forlornly on your bed in your loft apartment back home, try FMO on Main Road, Sea Point. Whilst the choice of men 'designer' goods in South Africa will not be the same as back home, FMO at least provides what others don't. Underwear and swimwear that doesn't make you feel like a sack of potatoes (the actual visual image is however, not controllable by undergarments alone)!

In Johannesburg, FMO has an outlet in the Eastgate area and Alphamale are based in Melville.