Swimming Costumes Keep Getting Better
Get ready, beach bums! Swimming costume designers are at it again. Even if you have more swimming costumes than you will ever use, you will likely want to add a style from this year to your collection.
As decades pass, designers are working harder and harder to come up with
new and fresh ideas. The evolution of the swimming costume over the
last hundred years has been pretty incredible and becomes more and more
experimental with each passing decade. Did you know that a swimming
costume in the early 1900's took about 30 times the quantity of fabric
as a swimming costume today?
The amount of fabric today's designers have
to work with is somewhat limiting. Full dresses and stockings from days
of old have, over the years, transitioned into a few square feet of
creatively, even artistically, placed fabric. Styles today are reaching
exotic heights as designers are depending on sexy detailing, bright
prints, vibrant colors, strategic fabric placement, asymmetrical designs
and textured fabrics to add their unique touch. Some of today's
swimming costumes are even featuring delicate pinks and whites with
frills and teeny bows to mimic your unmentionables.
Designers continue
to find new ways to amaze us and beg us to question, "How does that stay
on?" Portions of one piece swimming costumes go entirely missing while
strategic ties and straps make you wonder if there could possibly be
another way to take a swimming costume off. Don't worry though, your
Great Aunt Sally can still come out on the beach this year. Sarongs,
drapes and rompers are still fashionable as over garments that can stay
on or give a little sexy exposure in a breeze. To keep things exciting
you might even try on one of the 50's high waist bikini bottoms that are
popping up in fashion again. Sure you can go almost nude these days but
why not sunbathe with class? Go ahead, get a vintage headband and some
sexy accessories. Enjoy a new swimming costume this year as designers
mix retro with modern style and stretch the boundaries of fashion, once
again.
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