A garment, particularly swimwear, to cover a wearer's body between the waist and thighs has a shell of substantially impermeable material, a permeable inner lining material which lies next to the wearer's skin in use and an antimicrobial agent disposed between the shell of substantially impermeable material and the inner lining material. The antimicrobial agent may be Silver which has been deposited by a physical deposition process onto a textile disposed between the shell and inner lining material. The garment may form a lining of a swim nappy, the combination providing an article of swimwear.