Swimwear Styles

Every since the first bathing suits, designers have come up with more and newer swimsuit styles and every brand name and good swimwear designer has their own interpretation and design style to add to that. Swimwear styles have changed over the years dramatically. Vintage style bathing suits were designed with modesty in mind. They meant to cover as much as possible but give a lighter feel for swimming than a water soaked dress would. Slowly over the years, the swimsuits gradually covered less and less skin.

The 1900s style bathing suits for women and men still covered more than three quarters of the body, some maybe showing some leg or arm. In the 1920s, swimsuits started looking somewhat similar to the one pieces we know nowadays as modest swimsuits and after the invention of the bikini, showing off skin around the abdominal area, the way was led for bathing suits and swimwear styles with less and less fabric and more and more skin showing. 1950’s style swimsuits were designed to cover just above the navel. 50’s style swimsuits shoed basically just a small strip of skin in between the bottom and top part. Some of the more elegant 50’s style swimwear is back on the shelf 50-60 years later as so called retro style swimwear. Retro style swimsuits for girls are also in and sometimes as desired as designer or newer fashion styles. Besides corset style swimsuits the 1950s and early 1960s also boasted apron style swimwear. In the 1960s a the swimsuit deigns split s=lowly up into two very different styles, the hippie style bathing suit, which was essentially naked bathing also called skinny dipping. Another retro style swimsuit is the bohemian style bathing suit. First introduced and designed in the 1960s as the complete opposite to the hippie suit. Vintage style swimwear usually shows off bright vintage patterns, with one of the most popular being cherry patterns on black or white background, as so many of the swimsuit models back then as pin ups wore.

One of the newer retro swimsuit styles coming back is the bandeau style swimwear used as a elegant cover-up. Bandeau style swimwear uses a band like contraption wrapped around a woman’s body to cover up essential body parts.

Summer swimsuits styles also have always been more fashionable and sexy than for example competitive swimwear. More geared towards a fashionable crowd that wants to show off their body in the newest fashionable swimsuit, these swimsuits are not fabricated with special fabrics and usually are not as a high quality as competitive swimsuits.