How to Choose a Swimsuit Color That Suits You
How to choose a swimsuit color: find your undertone, the shades that suit cool, warm and neutral skin, contrast, prints, and colors that fade.
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How to Choose a Swimsuit Color That Suits You
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How to Mix and Match Bikini Tops and Bottoms in Different Sizes
How to buy bikini tops and bottoms in different sizes: sizing each half, pairing styles, and making separates look like a set.
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How to Stop a Bikini Top From Gaping or Slipping
Why bikini tops gape, slide, ride up and spill, how to fix each problem on the day, and which styles stay put for your bust size.
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How to Care for Swimwear So It Lasts All Season
How to wash, dry and store swimwear so it lasts: rinsing out chlorine and salt, sunscreen stains, hot tubs, the dryer and when to replace a suit.
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Burkini: What It Is, How It Is Built and How to Choose One
What a burkini is and how its tunic, swim pants and head covering work together. Which fabrics stay opaque when wet, how a burkini should fit, how it behaves in...
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Vintage Style Swimsuits: The Decades, the Cuts and What Makes a Suit Look Retro
What makes a swimsuit look vintage: the high waist, the sweetheart and halter necklines, structure and print. The shape of each decade from the 1920s to the 1990s, and how...
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Types of Swimsuits: Every Style, What It Covers and Who It Suits
Every type of swimsuit sits in one of four families: one-piece styles, two-piece styles, bottoms and layers, and full coverage. What each type covers, how it supports, which suits which...
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Plus Size Swimwear: Support First, Then Coverage, Then Style
Plus size swimwear fits when it adds structure, not just size. How 1X to 4X sizing works, how to measure, bust support above a D cup, coverage by style, chafing...
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One-Piece Swimsuits: Torso Length Decides the Fit, the Cut Decides the Look
One-piece swimsuits fit by torso length as much as by size. How to measure it, and what each neckline, leg line, back and level of bust support does, plus fabric...
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Modest Swimwear: Every Level of Coverage, and How It Holds Up in the Water
Modest swimwear covers more than a standard swimsuit, from tankinis and swim dresses to long sleeves, swim leggings and burkinis. Which zones each style covers, how coverage changes in water,...
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Tummy Control Swimsuits: What the Panel Is, and What Ruching Is Not
Real control comes from an internal power mesh panel and nothing else. Ruching, dark colour blocking and diagonal seams change how a silhouette reads without applying any compression, and listings...
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Bandeau Bikini Tops: The Band Does Everything, So Judge the Band
A bandeau has one load path instead of two, so the band carries the entire garment. Judge band width, silicone grip and stays, and know the honest ceiling: an unstructured...
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Thong Bikini Bottoms: Back Coverage Is a Gradient, Rise Is a Separate Choice
Back coverage is a gradient from full through cheeky, Brazilian and thong to G-string, and rise runs independently of it. Comfort is decided by seam finish rather than by how...
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Extreme Bikinis: The Coverage Spectrum, and What Holds Together
Extreme bikini describes a coverage spectrum, not a style: mini, micro and nano are three different amounts of fabric with no standard governing the terms. And less fabric concentrates load...
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Micro vs. Tiny Bikini: What’s the Difference?
The two most minimal cuts, separated clearly: what a micro and a tiny bikini each cover, how they differ, and when to wear them.
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Brazilian vs. Thong vs. G-String: Bikini Back Coverage Explained
The cheeky cuts, decoded: what a Brazilian, thong and G-string each reveal, how they compare, and how to choose the back coverage that suits you.
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Types of Bikinis: Every Cut & Coverage Explained
From triangle tops to Brazilian bottoms, here's every bikini cut and coverage level explained — so you can find the style that fits your shape and the occasion.
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What Is a Swim Dress? Coverage Is Half of It, Drag Is the Other Half
A swim dress, also written swimdress, is a one-piece with an integrated skirt panel. On a hanger that skirt is a coverage decision; in water it becomes a hydrodynamic one,...
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Sheer Bikini: See-Through Swimwear Styles, Fit & Where to Shop
A sheer bikini is see-through swimwear that blends classic swim fabric with transparent mesh for a bold, sensual look. This complete guide covers what a sheer bikini is, how...
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Women's Swim Shorts and Board Shorts: Lengths, Waistbands and What Stays Put
Board shorts were built for surfing and swim shorts for swimming, and every difference follows from that. What stops either riding up is the same thing, and it is the...
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What Is a Swim Skirt? The Skirt Is the Easy Part, the Liner Decides the Rest
A swim skirt is a skirted swim bottom with a brief, shorts or leggings sewn inside. Which liner to choose, lengths from mini to long, waistbands, what top to wear,...
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Kaftans, Sarongs and Beach Cover-Ups: What Each One Is and When to Wear It
A kaftan is a cut garment; a sarong is a rectangle of cloth you knot four ways. Cover-up describes what a garment is for rather than what it is, and...
Shaylie Foley |
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What Is a Tankini? And How to Stop the Top Floating Up
A tankini is a two-piece swimsuit giving one-piece coverage with independent sizing and no torso-length compromise. Its one fault is the top floating up: fit reduces it, and hem construction...
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