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Seems they don't want anyone wearing too much clothing in the pool.
To be fair more clothes weigh you down and produce more drag and potential for entanglement so it would be fair for the lifeguards to not deal with that.
That is probably the most sensible argument I've heard in favor of this ban but I don't think any single french politician ever used it. Usually it's some lukewarm argument about secularism, seemingly entirely forgetting the fact that only public servants in service are forbidden from showing any signs of religious affiliation.