Are You Looking For Designer Swimwear?

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:46:19 EST

It is a new year and a time to start fresh and make those New Year's resolutions stick. If you are like many, one of your resolutions is to get back into shape. By the time spring comes, this resolution will have changed into "getting in shape for swimsuit season. This Betsey Johnson has made things a bit easier (or maybe harder) by already revealing their new lines of designer swimwear for the 2010 season and much of what they have to offer is quite stunning and some of it not so much.

What Works

The first entry features the ever popular leopard print pattern. This is another bikini but that is where the similarities end. The Leopard -Print Wrap Around bikini from their swimwear line actually looks much like a halter top bikini. The top starts in the back but wraps around the front and connects at the top in back of the neck. The effect is both sexy and cute and promises much fun at the beach this summer.

What Does not Work

The first is the Red Carter Slashed one-piece. This one is not necessarily as sexy as the others but the it is an eye catcher and sure to be talked about, even just to comment on how bizarre it looks. This suit is a normal on one-piece swimsuit with one strap instead of two. That is not abnormal. What makes it a head turner is is that it features "slashes" across the front and sides, all the way up to the shoulder. The designers may have been aiming for "cute" by making it semi revealing, but in the end it looks like the wearer was mauled by a large cat.

Sounded Better at the time?

A quick look at all the swimwear that Betsey Johnson is offering this summer shows that many intriguing ideas. This season they are offering, in the category of Little Black Swimsuits, the topless bikini. They put in the category of Little Black Swimsuit, but it should be placed in "what were they smoking". It may look like a joke but apparently Betsey Johnson is serious. But what were they thinking People have been going topless for decades without having to buy a specially designed swimsuit for the occasion. If the design was cute, they may have gotten away with it, however it looks like they were inspired by something else. The bottom to this looks normal enough except it has a single strip of fabric that stars out wide at the bottom and tapers down to a cords that tie around the neck. The overall effect is that the wearer is getting a particularly bad front wedgie. Amusingly enough, the topless bikini does feature a removable bandeau top, meaning that in the end it was not so topless after all.

It is not all bad

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Are You Looking For Designer Swimwear?