carhop

I love lands end t-shirts they are light weight and fit with out being snug or tight and the bathing suits they have are great

frugalfabrics

Walmart is where I usually find my plus-size suits...they fit the best and cost the least.

farmer623

I had to wear a suit a couple of weeks ago, and was nervous that it had dry rotted during the time I hadn't worn it. I long for the days when bathing suits covered most of us up. I hadn't looked at my aging parts for a while until they were exposed for everyone else to see, and it wasn't pretty.

mar32428

I taught swimming for the Red Cross for 45 years. I had some pretty large "ladies" so needed a suit with a good built in bra. I couldn't afford the name brands and used five to six suits a summer, so took an old Stretch and Sew class. Wow, what a difference.

Was able to lengthen them so I wasn't pulling the back down all the time to cover the rear. Finally got pretty good at it and ended up with a business making suits for others who had fitting problems. They were very easy once I got the hang of it and because swimsuit fabric was usually 60" wide, it only took a yard or yard and a quarter. This way, I was able to buy very good fabric. We had a store here that specialized in swim fabric. My suits never cost me more than $30. I bought my bras and elastic in quanity.

genafan201

Found out this past December that I was being "forced" to go to Hawaii in March (just a little bit of funny there)...anyway, try, just try, to find a decent swim suit in Minnesota in Dec., Jan., or March.

But, I went into my favorite shopping place, Kohls', and there they were, just hanging on the walls...First two fit great!!! Sometimes, life just works :)

blueangel

I got mine at Penny's. Don't use it that much.

purplefiend

I wear the Speedo ultraback,moderate in a plus size. It fits well and gives good bust support. I buy my suits from :

www.swimoutlet.com

I can usually get at least a year's wearing from it. I'm in the pool 4 days a week at the local rec. center. I swim laps and also deep water aerobics.

mar32428

I did the same cause I had to have my pool removed. It was just too old and decrepit and expensive to repair anymore. I was there three times a week but had to quit. The pool was NOT clean. You could read a newspaper headline on the bottom of my pool. In theirs, you couldn't even see the drain. And the hot tub was worse. I kept getting throat and eye infections. Doc said it was the pool. We complained but got the old runaround. They said I had no idea how hard it was to keep a pool clean with so many people using it. I told them I had 75 kids a day, five days a week for four months in my pool and YES, I did know how to clean one. I do miss the water tho.

Angellight

Actually, I found the last one I bought at Sam's last summer. I had been wearing the same one for Way TOO Long. Found one I liked and bought it, and it actually lookd good on me according to my sister.

Happy Day!
Susan

fishnlady

You have probably seen this before but I will take the liberty to share this about bathing suits. I thought it was hilarious.

I have just been through the annual pilgrimage of torture and humiliation known as buying a bathing suit.

When I was a child, the bathing suit for the woman with a mature figure was designed for a woman with a mature figure. Boned, trussed, and reinforced, those swim suits were not so much sewn as engineered. They were built to hold back and uplift and they did a darn good job.

Today, stretch-fabric bathing suits are designed for the prepubescent girl with a figure chipped out of marble. The woman with a mature figure has little choice. She can either front up at the maternity wear department and try on a floral costume with a skirt and come away looking like a hippopotamus that has escaped from Fantasia - or she can wander around any run-of-the-mill bathing costume departments and try to make a sensible choice from what amounts to a designer range of fluoro rubber bands.

What choice did I have? I wandered around.I made my choice and disappeared in to the small chamber of horrors known as the fitting room. The first thing I noticed about the bathing suit was the extraordinary tensile strength of the stretch material. The Lycra that goes into bathing suits was developed, I believe, by NASA to launch small rockets by a sling shot. And it comes with the bonus that as long as you can lever your body into a Lycra suit, you can protect your vital organs from shark attack; the reason being that any shark foolish enough to take a swipe at your passing midriff would immediately suffer from jaw whiplash injury.

I fought my way into the first suit but as I twanged the last shoulder strap in place, I gasped in horror. My bosom had disappeared. I found one cowering under my left armpit. It took a little longer to find the other-flattened beside my 7th rib. The problem is today's suits don't have bra cups.

The mature woman is meant to wear her bosom spread across her chest like a speed bump. I realigned my speed bump and turned to the mirror to make a full-view assessment. The suit fit all right. Unfortunately it only fit those bits of me willing to stay inside it. The rest of me oozed out of the top, bottom, and sides. I looked like a lump of playdough wearing an undersized piece of cling wrap.

As I tried to work out where all these extra bits of me had come from, the sales girl poked her head around the curtain. "Oh, there y'all are," she asped.

"Yes, they are ALL me," I replied, looking at the extra bits. "What else have you got?" I tried on a crinkled cream one which made me look like designer tape. I tried on a floral two-piece which made me look like an oversized napkin in a napkin ring. I struggled into one of leopard skin with a ragged frill and ended up looking like Tarzan on an off day. I donned a black one with a net midriff and looked like a jellyfish in mourning, and I tried on a pink one whose legs were so high cut I would have needed to wax my eyebrows to wear it!

Finally - success. I found the one that fit. A two piece with a short style bottom and halter neck top. It was cheap, comfortable, and bulge friendly.

I bought it. When I got home I read the label: "Material may become transparent in water." I am determined to wear it. I just have to learn how to do the breaststroke on dry land.