Yes, bathing suits are tricky buggers. I try to avoid shopping for them and wear the suit from last year as many years in a row as possible. Last year, while I still fit into my bathing suit, I realized I had it for a really long time...and it was just too old fashioned and out of style- it was a Tankini with a straight tight skirt....I can't even find a sample picture online anymore...all the skirts I see now flare out or have a ruffle...
That's actually what triggered the bathing suit shopping last year...I'm a sucker for ruffles...
Now my biggest challenge with bathing suit shopping is my biggest challenge with dresses, shirts and just about any article of clothing that has to go on the upper half of my body...my boobs. If I find a bathing big enough to cover my chest than usually the stomach will also be huge which does not make good swimming attire. Once, as a teenager when I went on a long-hours-bathing-suit-shopping-trip with my mom we discussed the possibility of having a bathing suit altered to fit me. Then, we realized that all the bathing suits that big didn't have pretty patterns.
However, last year I found two great fitting suits and get this...I actually bought a two piece with a bikini-like top! I was a little self-conscious about the decision and before purchasing it I brought three friends who I knew would be brutally honest with me on whether I could actually get away with wearing it without disgusting everyone around me. All of them agreed that it looked fine...even GOOD on me. I was going to brave and post the picture I took of myself in it last year, but unfortunately I can't find it. This is the basic idea though:
I don't look as good as the model. I usually pull the bottom of the suit up higher on my stomach, but mine does have polka dots, but you get the idea here, but because this suit is a two piece and I am self-conscious about my body. I'm usually very selective about the people I wear it around and because I am a little afraid of popping out of it, I don't wear it when there is a chance I may be holding a baby in the water.
So the hunt began for a one piece. I thought I would just get a nice cheap traditional pretty one piece...well it turns out I hate my body in one pieces even more than I hated my body in that two piece, but luckily I found a not so traditional one piece that I LOVE. It's a forties style suit I got for cheap online.
I did buy the red because last year they only sold it in red and this really ugly leopard print (this year the suit is back at the store in purple, teal, black and white polka dot...because it got really good feed back last year). I Love this suit for its forties style which is almost a dress but without being obvious about it and the tie in the back. This year before I hit the beach I'm going to buy a fashionable sun hat to go with it.
Anyway that bottom line is I'm glad I found these suits last year. I can't stop wishing I fit into teeny weeny bikinis, but maybe my day for that will still come.
Relieved to not have to bathing suit shop this year,
Angela
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