on a completely different note

[flea]

Am I nuts for considering buying one of those swimsuits with a little skirt? Not because I am ashamed of my ass - I actually think I have a rather nice ass, although it is admittedly blinding white and somewhat cottage-cheesy - but because I hate shaving my bikini line, but can't bring myself to overcome societal prejudice and just go hairily forth.

So, are swimsuits with skirts always super-duper-dowdy, or could they be cute and charmingly retro or ironic?

I hate being female sometimes.

Comments

[serrana.livejournal.com]

I have wondered the same thing. Though honestly, since the incident in the changing room at the municipal pool (which involved a child pointing at my post-c-section stomach and asking her mother what had happened to that lady), I have not felt much like going about in public in any swimsuit, skirted or no.

[lala-lisa.livejournal.com]

One of my swimsuits has a little skirt! Totally cute and not dowdy at all. From Land's End actually, although they are usually the land of the somewhat dowdy. Like so

http://www.landsend.com/pp/BeachLivingWideWaistbandMiniSwimMini~191347_59.html?bcc=y&action=order_more&sku_0=::BBE&CM_MERCH=IDX_00002__0000000134&origin=index

or

http://www.athleta.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=4267&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=567&iSubCat=586&iProductID=4267

Swim skirts came back in for all ladies not just the middle-aged modest a couple of years back.

And they are perfect for when you're not up for taking care of "bikini" area hair biz.

[veejane.livejournal.com]

If you can't make the skirt thing work (and really? Of all the hairiness issues, that's not the one I thought would trip you up), there are always the "retro" types, usually with ruching all up the front, that have way low leg-lines (basically, one-piece boyshorts) that might do the trick.

[cassandre.livejournal.com]

I have a two-piece boyshort-type swimsuit that I wear for this reason. I hate the swimsuit shaving issue. The way women's swimsuits are designed is so unfair!

[burrell.livejournal.com]

I think the right skirt could look cute, the trick is that the rest of the suit has to not look dowdy.

I got a tankini with cute shorts a couple years ago for the same reason that you want the skirt. I like it. I'm thinking of getting a skirt one next summer as it turns out having kids means going to pools a lot more often.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd just go for the swim shorts if I couldn't stomach the skirt...in fact, I think the shorts are way cooler, so I'd probably go for those anyway. :)

[stephl.livejournal.com]

I see lots of women in our age bracket wearing the be-skirted swimsuits. I think it depends on the style as to whether it looks dowdy or cute.

The boy-short type bottom (or one-piece with a boy-short-cut leg) is a good option, too, and IIRC, you have long legs, which that cut looks cute on (if you care about that).

Does Lands End still have swimsuits with 3 (or more) different cuts for the legs (high, medium, low)? That's a good place to look, if they do.

[orthoepy.livejournal.com]

I third or fourth the skirt-suit from Land's End rec. I have several and I love them.

I think you are far from the land of Nordstroms but they usually have cute suits, too.

[wandsci.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

If you can't bring yourself to do a skirt, and you (like me) find the boyshort swimsuits amazingly revealing for something that seems like it shouldn't be.... consider a board short. Even young 'uns wear them sometimes out here in Southern California- they are considered "sporty".

I love my board shorts, and am seriously mourning the fact that their velcro is beginning to go.

Oh, and they are super flattering for post-partum tummies. Check out Title Nine- they sometimes have some. I got mine at a local surf shop.