My name is Flemming and I live in Denmark, Northern Europe.  I have always been fond of playing with water.  My mother has told me that when I was little it was allmost  impossible to keep me out of rain-puddles and other wet places.
 
In my early teenage years I started bathing and swimming with my clothes on. This was a total secret since my parents didn't like me to get wet and I was afraid of being the laughing stock at school - it was bad enough that I was a farmboy surrounded by  "city-slickers".  So I swam in a creek that ran through my father's meadow when I was home alone.

When I moved away from home to study I soon found other deserted lakes and creeks  that I could use without getting caught.  I have often been swimming in the rain when the chance of meeting others at the lake would be minimal. 

I graduated and got a job but it was still a secret that I preferred to swim with my clothes on.
 
But two years ago - at the age of 32 - I bought a scooter and I convinced myself that it was the right time for getting "out of the dry closet".  I went to the Danish west coast and tried for the first time in my life to bathe with my clothes on in public.

It was a very happy day and since then I have been swimming in clothes many times. I lost count last year but it is more than 30 times and always in clothes (I actually don't own what other people would consider to be swimwear).  I soon found out that Denmark is really a great country when it comes to clothed swimming.  I have never had any problems with other beach-goers - just an occasional question like "why do you jump in with all your clothes on".  I simply answer that it is what I like best and then people generally accept it.  Of course there has been one or two who thought I was a weirdo or a freak but I can surely recommend a Danish beach if you are into clothed swimming.

My favourite clothing - both wet and dry - are bib overalls. They are comfortable,  practical, and great swimwear.  I do wear denim overalls in the water but if I'm going to swim a longer distance I often wear colourfull worker overalls in a polyester/cotton material.  They are lighter and have greater freedom of movement than the heavy denimwear.  And they dry faster as well.

I'm now totally out-of-closet when it comes to jumping in the water with clothes on. Most of my acquaintances still doesn't know about it but I don't do anything to avoid other people when I go for a swim and if people ask me I don't have to tell a lie  anymore.