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The BRISIRA swaps the mesh brief for a soft boxer-brief liner, then adds a zip pocket on the outside and a phone pocket on the inside. It’s the trunk here for men who actually swim, and the one owners buy after cutting the mesh out of everything else.

We haven’t travelled with this one ourselves, so what follows is the spec and what owners keep saying about it.

Stretch polyester, boxer-brief liner, zip pocket

The shell is 92 percent polyester and 8 percent spandex with four-way stretch. Under it is a boxer-brief liner with no mesh, and that liner has its own phone pocket. On the outside there’s a zippered side pocket, an elastic waist with a drawstring, and a 5-inch inseam. Machine wash. Sizes are listed by waist, 26 to 44, which the listing calls XXS to 5XL, in about twenty colours and prints.

In and out of the water all day

Snorkel off the boat, walk the beach, back in the pool. The liner is the reason this pair works for that, because there’s no mesh to rub after the third swim of the day. Key and card go in the zip pocket on the walk, so nothing gets left on a lounger.

What keeps coming up

The liner is what owners write about. Men who used to cut the mesh out of every pair say this is the one they stopped doing that with, and the zip pocket gets the same praise. The catch is the length. Five inches is short, and on a tall man it’s very short. The waist runs small, so go up a size if you’re between. The liner is a soft boxer that sits loose against the leg, not a compression short. Fit and fabric feel also vary a little between colours. And with two layers it holds more water than a single-layer trunk, so it dries slower.