[Alassante]

Okay here's a new one I bet. If an elleth is going swimming with her husband, her brother-in-law, another elleth, and another ellon, do you think she would be naked? Or if not, what would she wear? Her bikini is at the dry cleaners.

[daw]

My guess is she'd keep her shift on, but I suppose it depends on how free and easy your elves are!

[Alassante]

[daw]

That is what a shift is. Here are some sites with info about swimwear:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3871/is_200007/ai_n8906806

http://home.comcast.net/~hot_tub/history-of-swimming.htm

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~roseying/ids110/WHIS.HTM

These sites suggest people swam nude, although not often in mixed groups.

[Eyborg]

Interesting question! It actually made me wonder - what would humans (or even hobbits) do? Like for instance, if Éowyn and Éomer would go swimming together? (I doubt that I would want my own brother see me naked (if I had one)). Or if Aragorn, Arwen, Éowyn, Faramir, Éomer & Lothíriel would all go together into the pool...

I've always imagined hobbits as quite "proper" in this case - they would probably not go swimming in mixed groups without wearing something (that is, those few who actually can swim, he he).

[NobleBone]

I always thought that as children both sexes would swim together, but as they aged (puberty etc) it was kind of frowned upon, and then if you're a couple it's a private thing. As for clothing, I've always seen them naked.

It depends on how inhibited you want your elves to be. As older "teens" or adults, they'd probably be more comfortable in mixed groups than elves at "middle school" maturity.

You could have the guys wearing breeches and the girls wearing some kind of underdress.

[Alassante]

I figured out the solution. I got the brother in law drunk so he had to go back to the manor (with the help of the other two elves) to sleep it off and now the couple are swimming happily alone.

[Vilwarin]

I am with daw there.