An Australian influencer has revealed how a family trip to a local pool in France ended in disappointment after her husband and son were denied entry for wearing board shorts.<\/p>\n
Lifestyle influencer Lauren Lakin said she and her family had planned to cool off at a pool near their Airbnb, only to discover male swimmers must wear tight-fitting swimwear rather than loose board shorts.<\/p>\n
“No swim shorts allowed,” her husband Kit said in a video documenting the experience.<\/p>\n
“You have to wear Euro shorts or Speedos. Or they must be boxer briefs, they must be skin-tight and hugging the genitalia.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know about being too conservative, but that’s the rule.<\/p>\n
“So just be warned. Maybe pack some of those.”<\/p>\n
Ms Lakin said the venue sold approved swimwear through a vending machine, but her son Houston was still turned away in his board shorts.<\/p>\n
The video then showed the family’s children trailing behind and fanning themselves in the heat after missing out on a swim.<\/p>\n
“The girls you could wear whatever, but the boys had to wear the Speedo-type swimmers,” she said.<\/p>\n
The response online was largely unsympathetic, with many commenters quick to defend the policy, arguing it exists for hygiene reasons.<\/p>\n
One commenter said the rule helps ensure swimmers are wearing dedicated swimwear rather than everyday shorts worn outside.<\/p>\n
“Proper pool hygiene,” another wrote.<\/p>\n
“An incredible amount of boys and men wear their normal underwear under those shorts or use them as streetwear.”<\/p>\n
Another commenter added, “Your husband isn’t wearing a swimsuit. Those are walking shorts.”<\/p>\n
Others suggested the solution was simple.<\/p>\n
“So, buy two pairs from the vending machine and have a nice time with the family rather than complain and make this video,” one person wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian influencer has revealed how a family trip to a local pool in France ended in disappointment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40680,64,63,134,2592,74017,361638,1625,361639],"class_list":["post-754973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-airbnb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-france","tag-influencer","tag-instagrammer","tag-lifestyle","tag-muminfluencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}