Shower etiquette at the swimming pool

jetplane

daft question - we have communal changing rooms with lockable showers at our pool. I always take my swimsuit off and shower, wrap a towel around me and then walk to a cubicle (as do others - or so I thought). This week I came out of the shower and a woman announced that I was disgusting to take my swimsuit off and walk around nearly naked.

I had never really considered this before and wonder if I am in the wrong and what others thought?

theoretica

If it is a decently sized towel competently wrapped surely you are showing less than you were in the swimming costume?

tanith

If your towel was covering you then how did she know you didn't have a cossie on?

tanith

I'm assuming its mixed sex otherwise why would anyone bother? Our pool is mixed changing rooms with lockable showers and cubicles but also has communal showers where people just shower off with cossies on.

jetplane

Oh yes its a big bath towel covers to my knees, wraps around and tucks in. I was actually carrying my cossie in my hand and of course there's no straps on my shoulders. At first I laughed, but later thought actually do others keep their swimsuit on, because I've never looked.

edit; yes it is mixed sex, lord when it was same sex communal I witnessed more than my eyes could bear with women bending and stretching in the changing room :eek:

tanith

Most people keep cossies on when they shower in our pool changing area, the trouble is although lockable the shower cubicles actually have narrow gaps around the doors and you can see the person inside if you really wanted to, I've accidentally seen things I shouldn't so I would never strip my costume off entirely.

Torry_Quine

As long as you are covered up then I don't see a problem. If the showers weren't individual and someone showered without a costume. or someone took the towel off and was totally uncovered in a communal area then I wouldn't like that

PasturesNew

If you're in a swimming pool, communal changing rooms - and have entered a closed/locked shower, where you removed your swimsuit, then put a towel round you to walk from the locked shower cubicle to a changing spot ... then the woman is either a loon/wrong -or- your towel is just too small and your foo foo is flapping beneath it.

KiKi

Last year I got a membership to the council run pools - which are mixed sex changing rooms. Having had the pleasure of a private gym pool with separate changing rooms (and open changing rooms, so you had no choice but to change in front of everyone) for the previous three years it didn't occur to me it was mixed - until I pulled down my cossie and an old guy walked in and shrieked. *blush*

I think a towel is fine. If you had been actually naked I would say cover up!

(Mind you, at the private pool I was at, women would be in the middle of changing (naked) then go to the toilet naked, and come out of the toilet cubicle again, naked, and stand there and dry their hair naked. I thought the hair drying in the nude was odd, but at least they were facing a wall. To walk to a toilet cubicle, do your business and come back out again I thought was very strange, as going to the loo feels like a private thing, but maybe that's just me!!)

KiKi

Having said that, in the mixed sex changing rooms I'm at now, most people do shower in their costumes - they seem to rinse off then go home for a proper shower. I prefer to have a proper shower there - wash my hair and everything - so I also strip off to a towel. Depends what you think the shower is for, I guess, but I think she was wrong to criticise you (unless parts of you were hanging out!!).

matchboxfull

Wait what?

So a total stranger came up to you and told you that you're disgusting for getting naked in a private shower?

Bet she has a fulfilling sex life.