Back in the water

Rainbow Trout

Inspired by the flash of colour that disappears just beneath the surface. Made for afternoons that turn into evenings before anyone notices.

Take Me Swimming See the cuts

Print Rainbow Trout

Cuts Four. Yes, all four.

Man standing under a waterfall laughing, wearing HAC Swim's Rainbow Trout swim brief, hands in wet hair.

The premise

Something you almost didn't notice. Then couldn't stop noticing.

The water has that colour around four in the afternoon. Not blue, not green, something between the two that only shows up for maybe an hour before the light shifts again. The kind of thing you notice once and then keep trying to find.

Rainbow Trout was drawn from that. The scale texture is the base layer, cool and shifting, the whole brief in it. The stripe is the thing you suddenly can't stop seeing. One band of full spectrum cutting straight through. It was always there. You just had to be looking at the right moment.

Try to be in the water when it happens.

Man floating on his back in dark green water, wearing HAC Swim's Rainbow Trout swim brief, eyes closed.

Man standing under a waterfall laughing, wearing HAC Swim's Rainbow Trout swim brief.

Close-up of a man in HAC Swim's Rainbow Trout print swim brief, showing the scale-textured print and rainbow stripe against dark water.

Basic Brief Full coverage. Same good trouble.

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Vintage Brief Retro shape, modern mischief.

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Box Cut Trunk Low-rise and not sorry about it.

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Flat Front Brief The tightest cut. Built to be seen.

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The print

Built on an illusion.

01
Scale texture all over.
Pulled straight from the water. The full brief, front to back, cool blues and violets that appear to shift with the light depending on where you're standing.
02
One stripe. Full spectrum.
Rainbow Trout is a scale-textured print, cool blues and violets shifting across it. Right at the front, one solid stripe of colour cuts straight through. There and gone. No shine to it and no shimmer, just a print that knows exactly where to put a little colour.
03
Designed in Canada.
Every element drawn in the HAC studio in Hamilton, Ontario. Not licensed, not sourced. Made from scratch.
04
Built for whatever the day becomes.
Quick dry. Fully lined front (except for the Box Cut). Drawcord that stays put. Chlorine and salt resistant, for however long the afternoon decides to run.

The fit

Pick the cut. We'll handle the rest.

Quick dry. Drawcord waist. Chlorine and salt resistant because if things go a little later than expected, your swim brief should be able to keep up. Sized XS to XL across every cut.