Modest Swimsuits

Everyone knows my daughter and I just got back from a wonderful California vacation.  My daughter loves Marilyn Monroe and we stayed at a hotel where Marilyn lived so many years ago.  We had seen pictures of Marilyn in various areas in the hotel and numerous pictures of her by the pool.  Our goal was to recreate these photos with my daughter "playing Marilyn".  I knew in the past, modest swimsuits were hard to come by.

I can remember when my oldest four daughters were all teenagers (at the same time) and we went shopping for bathing suits.  What a frustrating event that always was!  String bikini bottoms.  Bikinis tops with the tiniest rectangle of fabric to cover the essentials.  Bikinis and more bikinis.  And when you did find a one piece it was not "one" piece.  It had holes or was cut shamelessly low either in the front or back.  When did this become attractive?

In Marilyn's day women looked like women.  They had curves... curves that separated them from the boys.  And you didn't show it all.  You wore clothes that left something to the imagination.  Marilyn's bathing suit in the pictures we wanted to recreate was one piece, and completely covered everything.  It looked kind of like it wrapped and all the fabric was scrunched to the one side.  It was extremely attractive and very flattering... and modest.

I am happy to say that this time I had a lovely selection of modest bathing suits.  One piece bathing suits that covered front and back.... and even with straps.  It was a difficult choice but we found one in black with small white polka dots and the style was Marilyn.

And while we were in California whether at the pool or the beach... someone always came up and asked my daughter where she got that suit.  This is what women want and what men find attractive.  A modest bathing suit.

This is a sponsored post however, all the points and views are my own.