Here is why I don't give you advice about what swim suit to wear this summer. In my experience there are only two swim suits; the one you wear when you feel good or even good-ish or good enough or better-than-I-used-to-look about your body and the one that you wear when you hate your body. Yes, HATE. Those articles that give you three swimsuits you could wear if you're self conscious of your boobs or you bottom fail to acknowledge that a large portion of the population just feels bad about their entire body, even their elbows. And at any given point in the summer, you could fall in to one or the other of these categories since the way you feel about your body has absolutely no basis in what your body actually looks like. One day you feel great about it, the next day, you hate it- same body. Well I spent all of last year loving my body and the first three months of this year wishing I had a winter moo-moo. So, with that in mind, I bought the following swim suit:
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| Yes, it's a real swim suit! |
It's a 1950's swim suit made out of cotton table cloth fabric, complete with studs for me to pin my push up bra and I bought it on Etsy for $5. There are so many great things about this swim suit:
Number 1: I can still wear my underwear under this thing. I have no idea why I might want to do that but you never know, you just never know.
Number 2: Every time I get in the water to swim a lap, the handsome life guard on duty assumes a woman in full clothing has fallen in to the pool and he dives in to rescue me. Win!
Number 3: I am equally dressed for swimming as I am for taking off in a sprint for my run-away children or doing ballet or posing for my portrait on the nose of a fighter plane, it's just so versatile.
Number 4: Since there is only one of these swim suits in the world, I will never have to face a comparison with someone younger, taller and more buoyant than me.
Number 5: Also, at this point in my life, I would rather be on this side of the "she can do better" than on that side of the "she should cover up" chatter beside the pool.
Number 6: This only came in one size which is "chunky" and so I have room to grow AND when my breasts develop, I'll have some place to put them. Great news.
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Here I am looking in to that wonderful gap between my body and the swim suit and imagining the potential.
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