Amen!! I might get flamed for this but I think that suits with skirts (not the cute short flirty ones, but the longer mid thigh length) are less flattering than if you wore a regular suit. I liken them to those decorative nursing covers..HEY NOTHING TO SEE HERE but then you are looking ... When wet they just stick to everything in all the wrong places and I can imagine that it's just annoying to be so drippy after you get out. And then all the fabric floating around you in the pool?
Tangential, but why does anyone post horrible pictures of people on FB? I will appear in photos (not in a bathing suit!) so it's not like so object entirely, but come on! Why post the one where my face is all mashed up and my hair looks like crap.
The SOS line of the Hapari suits are very supportive..I have Ds and never feel like I am spilling out/putting on a show when bending over at the kiddie pool
I drop this in every bathing suit thread but someone here recommended it and I can't thank her enough! I love their tankinis..I get the "tummy tuk" bottoms that come all the way up to your belly button so there's no constant tugging down of the top/pulling up off bottoms. I have 3 tankinis in different styles and love them all.
Belly button? Is that high for most people? I want that shit to go all the way up to my bra line to look good. My belly button would just give me a double tummy. I also think I have a freakishly long waist.
I'm pretty sure I should be designing plus size bathing suits because I could surely do a better job.
Those Hapari suits are cute but clearly offer no bust support:(
Belly button is high considering a lot of tankinis just have bikini bottoms that (for me) cut an at an unfortunate area right in the middle, creating more of a pooch. And then the top never covers the bottom so it's all hanging out right there. I do think I've seen other brands that have bottoms that go way higher (like up to under boob area) but that would be too much/too hot? for me. I don't like one pieces as I feel hot temperature-wise in them. And they are a PITA to go to the bathroom in. I know, makes no sense..
The SOS line of the Hapari suits are very supportive..I have Ds and never feel like I am spilling out/putting on a show when bending over at the kiddie pool
I am a size 14, large on top, and have issues in my mid section but I wear the heck out of some bikinis. When I was very thin and a size 0 and even a 4 or 6 I had body image issues and thought I was fat. I would not wear a bikini because of that. Oh so thankful I got over that and now am totally comfortable with my body in a bikini.
Try finding a plus sized lap suit in anything other than black and navy. Apparently Speedo and Tyr and the like think that we don't like having color options.
I'M ON TO YOU, ASSHOLES.
Metro Swim shop has some Aqua Sphere suits that are still boring as fuck, but they do have suits in non-navy blues and a pink one.
Might not have a ton of support for $18, but here are two cute ones that goes up to XXXL...
Most of these suits companies do make their sizes in a long, but not for every suit and I feel you on the navy blue and black being the majority of "Long" sizes available. My mom has this problem, too. I think it's gotten better in the past ten years though.
This is why I've given up on one pieces. NOTHING works with my long torso. I've been doing the board shorts and a tankini top. I wish I could find something I like on the bottom that doesn't make me feel so self conscious. I mean, I get my thighs/hips are big, that isn't the problem.....it's more, because of the weight loss, I can't get them firm. Loose skin and all (yeah, you're welcome for the visual!)
I found a relatively decent one piece at Athleta. They carry tall sizes.
Except it had a racer back that was stitched so high I couldn't get in it. Like I tried every contortion I could and could not get it past my "I birthed two babies!" hips.
So I had to pick some of the stitching out. But once that was done, puppy fits like a glove.
It is, however, plain black. But that's what I wanted. But there's this one that comes in many colors: