Fitting Your Bathing Suit Top
When fitting your bathing suit top you should follow the same rules that you would if you were trying on a bra. The rules apply whether you are trying on a bikini top or a one-piece suit.
First of all, you should find out your bra size, as it is almost always the same as your swimsuit size. Then you need to count on trying on bathing suit sizes within at least one size on either side of what you usually wear as bathing suit manufacturers have absolutely no standards when it comes to determining breast size for a bathing suit. The result is racks and racks of swimsuits hanging in every store with bra cups and torso sizes that come in every permutation. All it seems you can do sometimes to find out if something fits is to try it on. A bathing suit is very hard to buy just by eyeing it for size.
Thankfully bathing suits are sold in two pieces in recent years. This means that if you are top heavy but have slim hips you don’t have to buy suit where there the bottoms are too big or the top is too tight. You can now select the tankini or bikini top you want and match it with the skorts, panties or thong that you would like and get a perfect fit every time.
The second rule to follow is to try and avoid buying a swimsuit that has a torso band that is too big and a breast cup that is too small. This is a common mistake that many women seem to make. They often don’t notice that their breast are bulging out of the side of the molded cup of the bathing suit until they have worn it a few hours and it starts to feel painful.
If you are buying a bathing suit that does not have a molded cup covered with fabric then make sure it is lined properly. Believe it or not some swimsuits are made merely for lying around the pool and getting a suntan and not being immersed in water. Make sure that the fabric it is made of is thick enough to cover your naughty bits when it is wet.
If you are buying a halter style top make sure that it has some kind of secure clip or tie at the back and that the straps are not made of a material that is too stretchy or slippery. This type of bathing suit has the bad habit of slipping lower and lower when you are in the water.
Finally when buying a bathing suit make sure that it fits rather snugly even when you have it hooked on the last hook. This is because the bands on the torsos of bikinis and on one-piece bathing suits tend to become looser as they get wet. You want to make sure that as the suit expands from wear and tear that you can do it up on the inner hooks to make it fit again as time goes on.