Beach wear

• They're worn with gloves
• Oversized luggage
• The common connection shared by the answers to the asterisked clues
• Boxers' shorts
• Trousers that end at or above the knee
• Elephants have long ones
• Boxer's garb
• Boles

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Trunks are brief shorts , loose-fitting or tight, worn for sports, especially boxing, swimming, and track. When worn as swimsuit , trunks are often referred to as swimming trunks or bathing trunks (or with the more general term bathing suit or a synonym) ...