A Shopping Tragedy !!!1!
Feb. 19th, 2011 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaLands' End has screwed up the fit of their "tugless tankini" for girls this year - the bottoms are apparently so badly cut that they are skimpy in the front and baggy in the back, no matter what size one tries. Why they messed with what must be one of their steady reliable top sellers, who knows, but thank god they enabled comments so I know not to order the suit for Casper for this summer. Maybe the flood of returns and negative reviews will allow them to do something about it.
The problem becomes, what do I order instead. Hanna Andersson's swimsuits are too little-girl print and they only make tanks and bikinis; Garnet Hill has some cute prints but everything has ruffles (excet the darling Patagonia suits, but a $55 swimsuit for my 7 year old is a no). So I guess we're going with LLL Bean, but unfortunately their basic tankini only comes as a set - I was planning to get just bottoms and order a rash-guard top. Grrr. Maybe I will brave our local sporting-goods store (which is about half guns and ammo) and see if there's anything there.
I got some cool board shorts for Casper from Lands End last year that have a built-in swimsuit bottom but then are like surf shorts. They were huge last year (despite being the same size as everything else I bought) but fit now, and she loves them. Of course, they do not make these any more.
The problem becomes, what do I order instead. Hanna Andersson's swimsuits are too little-girl print and they only make tanks and bikinis; Garnet Hill has some cute prints but everything has ruffles (excet the darling Patagonia suits, but a $55 swimsuit for my 7 year old is a no). So I guess we're going with LLL Bean, but unfortunately their basic tankini only comes as a set - I was planning to get just bottoms and order a rash-guard top. Grrr. Maybe I will brave our local sporting-goods store (which is about half guns and ammo) and see if there's anything there.
I got some cool board shorts for Casper from Lands End last year that have a built-in swimsuit bottom but then are like surf shorts. They were huge last year (despite being the same size as everything else I bought) but fit now, and she loves them. Of course, they do not make these any more.
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Date: 2011-02-20 05:04 pm (UTC)More and more I am considering just getting her a rash guard and some nylon shorts - sun is such an issue here, and the level of chlorine in the Y pool makes the fitted suits die quick deaths. If the boy trunks didn't have mesh liners she could just wear those. AND I could hand them down!