July 03, 2005

• Looks just fine to me...and it's about damn time that someone offered something besides the all-but-bare fashions currently the rage.
• i wonder if they make em small enough to fit your little straw man?
• They leave the calves exposed. Too trashy.
• What about those "well-turned" ankles? There outta be a law. And with Scalia calling the shots, there will be.
• TPCQ: "Mister Silas, this young woman is flashing her privates."
• I bet they're awful to swim in. The drag must be terrible. You could always set up a fetish site dedicated to the range. That would mess with their heads.
• Oh, damn. That would be freakin' hilarious!
• I wonder if one could swim in a burka?
• I'm all for free choice to be sure, and I do think its a pity that women's swimwear in particular becomes such a stressful, emotional issue for so many women, by dragging up so many stupid body issues. Yet at the same time I wonder if this is an ominous bellweather, a glimpse things to come for the United States of Arbitrary Morality.
• Women swimming? Girls floating?! Are we now encouraging witchcraft?!!! WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA?
• ``Highlights the face, rather than the body....'' Yeah. 'Cause you know that judging people by their looks is only O.K. if it's their faces.
• Huh. What I get from the site is women should be constantly ashamed of their body. This kind of swimwear brings up the exact same stupid body issues, but makes them a fault that should be covered up and hidden. Of course, swimming and the beach are such an imprtant part of life where I live that we don't have the issues that mainlanders have with swimwear. It's not part of our mindset.
• Think what you'd save on razor blades since you'd never have to shave your underarms again.
• Wouldn't have to get a Brazilian, either.
• The culotte style looks like it would be the easiest of the modesty maillots to wear while swimming. I guess it's traditional for swimsuit models to be pictured out of water, but it feels a little suspicious that there are no action shots of girls in those suits in the water. They remind me a little of scuba suits. My first thought was why not cheaper versions of the full body racing suits worn by swim athletes? Those would seem to be the ultimate in skin coverage and similarly "highlight the face."
• I wonder if one could swim in a burka? I stayed by the beach in Malaysia for a fortnight a couple of springs ago, and come sundown you'd see local families come out for a stroll and to let their kids have a paddle in the surf. Saw plenty of women having fun in the sea whilst dressed by local modest standards, though can't remember anyone actually full-on swimming. Childrean of an age similar to those in these pictures were swimming about though, in what would be regarded as fairly normal swimwear in the west too.
• > I wonder if one could swim in a burka? there are some women-only beaches in dubai, afaik.
• afaik looks vaguely like a swearword to me. I always do a doubletake when I see it written in lower case. /meaningless quirk
• afaiku Alnedra!!1 ;D
• My first thought was why not cheaper versions of the full body racing suits worn by swim athletes? Those things are hawt.

• My first thought was why not cheaper versions of the full body racing suits worn by swim athletes?

  Those things are hawt.

  couldn't AFAIK agree more. does it look better in upper case?
• Those things are hawt. I guess that's sort of an answer, though I think that it would depend on who's wearing them. Bikinis and speedos are hot too, but not so much when the kid's diaper is peeking out of the bottom. That's just cute, assuming they're not waterlogged.
• There is nothing funnier than a baby whose diaper is full of river, lake, or pool water. It's like attack of the big-assed baby. Well, one thing's funnier: when they fall down.