Random Observation -

[kyburg]

Anyone seen the latest Old Navy commercials, the ones with the swimwear?

Yeah guys, I know you're looking at the girls wearing very little - all I can think of is the shaving burns.

But if you're a gal, looking for a hot guy in a swimsuit - that ain't it.

You want to know how BAD those jammies really look?

If chicks wore stuff as conservative as the guys do.

Thing is, that's a serious site - EW.

Could be worse. It's not the sizes. Check the prices!

I'll make my suit from Land's End a couple of years ago work a while longer. No kidding.

Comments

Talk about extremes!

[elfwench.livejournal.com]

And if they think these *points down to link* are slimming, someone's been lying to them.
http://www.wholesomewear.com/slimmer-c.html

As to the second link, I never got why we are expected to pay so much for a garment we only wear a few times a year.

[zoe-me.livejournal.com]

I thought I would NEVER wear one of those quaint retro skirted thing like my moms.....

until after I gave birth!!!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I love Lands' End swimsuits. They always stay right where I put them. I should try Junonia one day. With shoes and bathing suits, I've been willing to spend money, as they last a long time. My favorite Lands' End bathing suit finally wore out after I left it, chlorine-wet, at a friend's house and forgot where it was. When I got it back a year later, the soak in chlorine and year of being wadded into a ball had killed the lycra dead.

[pywacket.livejournal.com]

well ya know, I'm allergic to the sun. Really and truly. I get a rash and burn almost immediately, but I love to swim. So I got an Australian suit, which is only slightly less dorky. It's called a rash suit I believe and has bike shorts and a long sleeved top. But it's colorful :-)

[bleudaisy.livejournal.com]

For some reason the stuff from Wholesome Wear struck me first as swimwear for groups like the Amish. I think it's the black romber over the top.

It's honestly shocking how much stores and catalogs charge for something you only get to wear a few times per year and often doesn't have even a yard of material that retails at hancock's fabrics for $6.99/yard.

[kali-ma.livejournal.com]

OMG - I WANT one of those! I hate wearing tight clingy bathing suits!

[makeitepic.livejournal.com]

I HATE THOSE OLD NAVY COMMERCIALS SO MUCH!!! Those girls might as well be wearing nothing XO

I'm gonna stay inside all season, wear a muumuu, and cry myself to sleep every night. Then I guess those ads are effective?

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

Those "skirted suits" look like my junior high school gym uniforms. Seriously. Is that a Web site for ultra-religious people? (And I don't mean Unitarian Universalists like myself.)

As far as prices ... a few weeks ago I bought a one-piece size 2X suit for myself at Rugged Wearhouse for just *six bucks*. It's not my favorite style, but it will do in a pinch. My main bathing suit is 14 years old and the elastic could go "sproing" permanently at any time.

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

You know, I could actually see myself kayaking in one of those culotte suits. It would keep the sun off my back, and eliminate the constant problem I have with the sunscreen wearing off due to the straps of my swimsuit rubbing my skin as I paddle. I could actually go kayaking for hours without getting burned. Wow.

Stick me in the sun and I have to have, at minimum, factor 30 sunblock. More, if the sun's more intense or it's a particularly delicate part of my body (such as my face). I have sunburned every part of my body that it is possible to sunburn, including the soles of my feet, and let me tell you, that is the very worst place to sunburn.

I know people will see that and say, "No, it's worse around the pubic region". I've sunburned both, and the soles of the feet are the very worst place to burn.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Kayaking, yes -- but that much fabric, even nylon or lycra, moving around my body while I'm trying to swim would only annoy me, I think. I specifically buy swimsuits to fit fairly snugly, have reasonable coverage, and stay exactly where I put them when I start out.

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

Agreed! For swimming, it's another matter entirely.

Then again, if I can, I prefer to swim wearing nothing at all; there are a few places I've been able to do that safely, and I relish the opportunity.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Nothing beats a good, long-sleeved wetsuit for water sports on rivers. Nothing.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I admit that I have a preference for two-pieces because of my long torso - very few places made long-torso suits, so a bikini was my friend, especially back when I had the figure for it. These days I'm going to get me a tankini if I ever feel the need to get in water in public.

And I'm noticing that even the teens are wearing tankini tops and boy-cut shorts, so women's bathing suits that cover more than stripper-stickers do are making a comeback.

And the really sad thing about those horrible guys' shorts? If a guy has the nerve to wear something that isn't those shorts, the other guys mock him as gay. Seriously. My darling prefers something like this, and I actually ended up kicking a guy for sexual harassment of him at one point. Spandex shorts. That's all. Apparently a visible bulge is a threat to an American male's masculinity. I've promised darling a week in the French Riviera some time, where his sexy figure can be properly appreciated. (I can't take him to a gay beach, and all of those around here are nude anyway.)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Lands' End has a nice long-torso suit. They provide measuring info for those (like me) who are more comfortable in them.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've got my eye on those. But it's probably better and cheaper if I do enough sit-ups to get back into either of the two almost-never-worn bikinis in the back of the drawers, since I need a bathing suit maybe twice in a good year.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

That, is just sad.

[photodiva02.livejournal.com]

Is it the one with the Go Go's music in the commercial?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's the one.

[djdig.livejournal.com]

Razor burns sux and I haven't figured out how to avoid them yet. I avoid having to wear a bathing suit mostly for that reason.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I hear they use wax. And Nair. *shivers*

You go first, Indy.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I've been eyeing a 2 piece lands end suit. I need something to cover the hips and thighs. And I need 2 piece because I'm prone to female stuff in that area and would rather just take off the bottom when done. (This way you can change where there is a non changing sign in the restroom - enter with shorts over suit bottom, remove suit bottom, replace with dry underware, pull up shorts and no one knows you've changed!

[lorriejharris.livejournal.com]

Actually, that first link is the "recomended" place to buy swimwear for devout Mormons. The part that goes underneat the black jumper is to the correct specs for the "proper" underwear after you've joined the church.

--LJH (who had a Mormon sis-in-law at one time)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Holy underwear, Batman!

[lorriejharris.livejournal.com]

*sprays tea all over her monitor* ^^;;

Okay, I was so not expecting that! XD

[moropus.livejournal.com]

I just ordered a swimsuit from OneHanesPlace.com that shouldn't require shaving down there or turn me into too much of a french fry without making me into a total geek. Of course, last year when I did go swimming I wore a t-shirt into the water over my suit because the sun is so hot down here that the glare is unreal. I wasn't the only one.

Even waterproof sunscreen washes off after a while.