The Treachery of the Common Swimsuit

One of my ankles is a bit unreliable, and age isn't improving it. The elliptical runner with the shuffle on high is my favorite exercise at the gym, but because of the ankle, I'm moving more and more into swimming.

I started looking for a swimsuit earlier in the year. The timing was perfect - all the stores had pages devoted to swimsuits. These pages were often subdivided by "problem" areas - the waist, stomach, chest (too big or too small), and thighs. Unfortunately, nothing for an ankle so I didn't feel it was all that helpful. In the end I bought a red bikini and brown board shorts from a website that didn't worry about customers' problem areas, but did assure them that the outfit would stay on even in the ocean.

I swim for about 35 minutes and go two or three times a week. Speed is not one of my virtues in the pool as I refuse to put my head under water (water in the ears is just too annoying). But I keep moving, and get a decent workout. It also uses muscles that don't get used on the elliptical runner.

All was well with this routine until last week. After my swim, I hopped out of the pool and discovered that the colorful outside of the bikini had stretched - a lot. (Fortunately, the liner had more or less held its shape.) The bikini bottoms had had the same melt down. It looked like saggy elephant skin. Definitely not attractive, and also somewhat inexplicable. It was as if the bikini top and bottom had got together and decided to spontaneously lose all stretch, leaving a sagging mass where a cute little red swimsuit used to be.

So back to the drawing board for a new swimsuit; hopefully this time for one that doesn't fall apart quite so spectacularly or unexpectedly.

Comments

[Alia]

LOL, that visual is just too funny!!!