Stabilizing Lower-Body Swimming Garment

A lower-body swimming garment, comprising:

• a waistband element;
• a shorts or pants element that:
• is attached to the waistband element,
• is made of a knitted or woven fabric, and
• is configured to fit tightly and conform to the contours of the wearer's waist, hips, buttocks, crotch, and legs;
• and
• a closed-cell foam element that:
• is made of one or more sheets of one or more low-density, flexible or semi-flexible, closed-cell foams cut to correspond with the form of part or all of the shorts or pants element,
• is shaped and arranged such that the area of the sheet that corresponds with the area of the shorts or pants element that will cover part or all the wearer's outer legs is thicker or includes a closed-cell foam that is less dense than the foam that covers any part of the remainder of the shorts or pants element, and
• is attached to the parts of the shorts or pants element to which it corresponds in a manner such that the lower-body swimming garment is bilaterally symmetrical or nearly bilaterally symmetrical.