# Swimmers - how do you deal with this wet bathing suit thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 21, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimmers-how-do-you-deal-with-this-wet-bathing-suit-thing/579255 "2011-04-21T17:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![qrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ac8455/32.png) [@qrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qrider)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimmers-how-do-you-deal-with-this-wet-bathing-suit-thing/579255/41 "2012-01-10T14:48:10Z")
I want to start swimming before class in the morning. The pool is at my school and I do not want to go home afterwards as I can shower there at the gym and change. What should I do with my wet bathing suit all day? I can leave it in a locker at the gym or leave it in my car. I’d rather not have to go back to the gym after school just to get my suit in order to bring it home, but leaving it in a locker all day and night seems like a bad idea. I can’t think of a place at school to let it drip dry. Obviously I would wring it out as best as possible after cleaning it from the chlorine. But then what? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimmers-how-do-you-deal-with-this-wet-bathing-suit-thing/579255/42 "2012-01-10T15:17:01Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > What I do: After swimming, shower while still suited at the pool to rinse the chlorine out of the suit or else the chlorine will dissolve the elastic. Why go home to shower? You’re already halfway done. Finish up at the pool and be done in half the time. Roll up suit in towel, go home. Another vote for the ‘roll it up in a towel’ tip. Altho I deal with salt water rather than fresh, it’s the same principal. A good diver knows you tend to your equipment before yourself (dunking said equipment in the hotel tub to soak and rinse off saltwater, which will destroy anything it touches over time) and that includes your swim togs. I have three different tank suits I use and all of them, despite my care, show signs of salt water/tropical sun damage. That and they’re el Wal-mart cheapos. Spend $100 for a suit that’s gonna suffer all of the above? No way. Get a $20 one and buy several of them at a time. Save the designer stuff for lazing around the vacation pool, not the workout pool. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimmers-how-do-you-deal-with-this-wet-bathing-suit-thing/579255/43 "2012-01-10T15:34:01Z")
> [@qrider](#): > > I want to start swimming before class in the morning. The pool is at my school and I do not want to go home afterwards as I can shower there at the gym and change. What should I do with my wet bathing suit all day? I can leave it in a locker at the gym or leave it in my car. I’d rather not have to go back to the gym after school just to get my suit in order to bring it home, but leaving it in a locker all day and night seems like a bad idea. > > I can’t think of a place at school to let it drip dry. Obviously I would wring it out as best as possible after cleaning it from the chlorine. But then what? > > Thanks The same towel method described above. After you’ve wrung it out wrap it in the towel and store in your gym bag for the day. When you get home hang it to finish drying. If you’re worried about it getting musty rinse it again when you get home and hang it to dry although if you do that you might need a second suit to swim every day. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimmers-how-do-you-deal-with-this-wet-bathing-suit-thing/579255/44 "2012-01-10T18:44:05Z")
I usually just take mine home and toss it in the dryer on tumble dry, air only. No heat, so it shouldn’t damage the suit, and it’s dry a lot quicker than it would be otherwise. Also, I throw it into a ziploc in my gym bag so it doesn’t get everything else wet. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimmers-how-do-you-deal-with-this-wet-bathing-suit-thing/579255/45 "2012-01-10T22:33:55Z")
I’ll just repeat myself, too, and say you really don’t have to ever dry your swim suit. Just rinse it thoroughly, wring it out, and put it in a zip lock bag until you return to the gym. (Dry it at home, if you must.) It’s ridiculous to insist upon donning a dry swimsuit when you’re just about to jump in water. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimmers-how-do-you-deal-with-this-wet-bathing-suit-thing/579255/46 "2012-01-10T22:47:12Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > It’s ridiculous to insist upon donning a dry swimsuit when you’re just about to jump in water. As a woman who wears a 1 piece swimsuit; yuck and no way. Trying to pull on a wet or even damp suit sucks. Wring it out, roll it in a towel, hang it up when you get home. Buy 2 or 3 and rotate so they can dry out. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimmers-how-do-you-deal-with-this-wet-bathing-suit-thing/579255/47 "2012-01-11T04:25:47Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I want to know what beaches and pools you’re attending. I go to a nude beach for maybe two to three hours a year, and that’s the only time Mr. Sunshine sees any Sun at all. My dick needs more vitamin D! Such a pitty the YMCA went coed. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimmers-how-do-you-deal-with-this-wet-bathing-suit-thing/579255/48 "2012-01-12T23:51:55Z")
Have you considered swimming after work instead? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimmers-how-do-you-deal-with-this-wet-bathing-suit-thing/579255.md?page=2)