Swim With Me: Your Shape part #2

Swimwear for  full  Tummy

Looking for a swimwear that will make your tummy look flat can be daunting. Here are some the things you can look for:

A swimwear with built-in tummy control panel which give a flatter appearance to the tummy. Fabric with texture fools the eye, drawing attention to the fabric as opposed to the tummy.     Bikinis with high waistband with added shirring or folds, this will give more coverage to you tummy.  

Swimwear for Straight Figure

If you like shirring, ruffle, bold prints as well as ring, this is your chance to wear it well, this will give attention to the hip also definition to the waist adding

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Swim With Me: Your Shape.

Swimwear Style for Large Bust

Your swimwear should fit you as a good bra. Support is the most important thing for you. When choosing a swimwear those with the same characteristics as a bra is important, the aim is to keep the bust is lifted, choosing a swimwear with sturdy linings, under-wire, boning, seamed cups and adjustable straps works bests. You can truly work the bikini, the bikini top is built with lots of that need support, ensure that the top has ample coverage at the armhole and shoulders. Styles that will work well for you are the halters.

Swimwear for Full Hips and Thighs

Colors and attention-grabbing details in the right places or anything that draws the eye away from the hip and thigh and more towards the upper part of your body will be ideal. Swimwear with skirted bottom, deep neckline, and hardware such as rings and chains can be a plus.       

Keep reading for more interesting post and tips on swimwear for your body shape.
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Swim With Me: Swimwear Types

 Hello once again! In this post I will be sharing with you Swimwear “Bathing suit”. For your body shape. As you have read in the previous post swimwear has come a long way, its sexier than ever, less fabric and designs that are out of this world.

 Swimwear comes in different types and its always nice to know them by name. 
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The One Piece Swimsuit (Maillot), is made from a single piece of fabric. This type of swimwear provide coverage for the top, bottom and the torso area with  legs, tops, back and strap style that vary.

Monokini, is a swimwear with a strip of fabric that connects the top of the swimwear to the bottom, covering the belly area only. There is no specific width or style for the strip, it depends on the swimwear design

Slingshot, this swimsuit style is outrageous and can be considered daring 

Skirted

Two Piece Swimsuit (bikini), the top and the bottom of the swimwear is separated. This type of swimwear can be mixed and matched with other pieces of garments

Tankini, a variation of the bikini, the top of the tankini is similar to a tank top and provides good coverage for torso area.  

Boy Shorts Bikini   

 I hope a level of excitement is upon you. after what you have read so far.

 Having some level of knowledge about the different styles of swimwear will make it easier as we go, especially when it comes to choosing those that fit your body shape.

Swim With Me: The History

 Hello once again! In this post I will be sharing with you a sewing passion of mine, Swimwear “Bathing suit”. I love to design and make swimwear. I made swimwear for customers, friend and family especially for my two sisters. I had the opportunity to get back into sewing swimwear for 2014 carnival for a couple of ladies who wanted Monokinis for carnival Monday. Of course that trigger my love once more.

Sizing for swimwear can be tricky, so I resort to custom making swimwear for women of different sizes. At the end they are satisfied and I feel fulfilled doing one of my favourite thing

I will share with you the history of swimwear and then I will go into the different style for your body type I hope this excites you as much as it excites me.

Swimwear “Bathsuit” The History.

I hope it not surprising to you that the fashion history of swimwear was principally from dresses and the outfits worn in the 18^th  Century which was very modest, their body was almost totally covered because it was considered improper to skin.

http://www.victoriana.com/library/Beach/FashionableBathingSuits.htm

   18th Century:

"This 1797 Gallery of Fashion print shows two ladies protected by face-shading bonnets, shawls and glove ^"

Regency Era:

Fashionable Sea-Side Walking Dress La Belle Assemblee Fashions, Sept 1810

"A gown of white French cambric, or pale pink muslin, with long sleeves, and antique cuffs of thin white muslin worn over trowsers of white French cambric, which are trimmed the same as the bottom of the dress. A figured short scarf of pale buff, with deep pale-green border, and rich silk tassels; with gloves of pale buff kid; and sandals of pale yellow, or white Morocco, complete this truly simple but becoming dress."

Mid-19th Century:

“In the mid-19th century bathing dresses covered most of the female figure. These garments were highlighted in Godey’s Lady’s Book in 1864. the long bloomers exhibit the influence of Amelia Bloomer’s innovative ideas for women’s clothing. The ”turkish” pants and “paletot” dresses are made from a heavy flannel fabric which would surely weigh down the swimmer”.

1890s`:

1900: “Swimsuit retains modesty but was free enough to allow the young lady to engage in swimming was obvious. 1910: “By 1910 bathing suits no longer camouflaged the contours of the female body. The yards of fabric used in Victorian bathing skirts and bloomers were reduced to show a little more of the figure and to allow for exposure to the sun.” 1915: “Up until the first decades of the 20th century, the only activity for women in the ocean involved jumping through the waves while holding on to a rope attached to an off-shore bouy. By 1915, women athletes started to share the actual sport of swimming with men and thus began to reduce the amount of heavy fabric used in their billowing swimsuits” 1920s: “By the early 1920s women’s bathing suits were reduced to a one piece garment with a long top that covered shorts. Though matching stockings were still worn, vintage swimwear began to shrink and more and more flesh was exposed from the bottom of the trunks to the tops of the stockings. By the mid-1920s Vogue magazine was telling its readers that “the newest thing for the sea is a jersey bathing suit as near a maillot as the unwritten law will permit http://www.victoriana.com/library/Beach/FashionableBathingSuits.htm  Hmmm! what a long way we have come. Some of the  swimwear of today is by no means modest. but i must say they did inspire a lot other garments we wear under our clothing today. STAY BLOGGED ON FOR MORE....