Since we have spent the majority of our summer getting wet, I am noticing women and men everywhere are wearing bathing suits not suited for their body type. I am not sure what set of mirrors they used when trying on these suits that made them think it looked acceptable, but surely the mirrors could not have created this big of an illusion. Most of the time it is frightening to look straight at them. Certainly, it can't be done on a full stomach.
Either these women are squeezing a size 20+ body into a size 4 bathing suit or, the bathing suit is the right size, but there is just too much of them hanging out because they think they can pull off a bikini. Yes, I am talking about a string bikini -- not a tankini that covers the tummy, but something so small that rolls of fat actually hang over the string of the bathing suit. It is a train wreck...hard to not look at, but at the same time you wish you hadn't.
Or men are wearing these speedo-type bathing suits a la an Olympic athlete. However, the athlete body type is so well hidden, it appears to have developed many layers of insulation.
I guess in years past, we've been sheltered by mostly going to our neighborhood community pools where we hang out with moms and kids. Moms who know how to bathing suit shop. Now, with my kids a little older, our bathing suit wearing environment has expanded to water parks, the beach and various other pools.
My other observation this summer is that there seems to be an unusually high percentage of the population covered in tattoos. Like all over their body tattoos. And not pretty ones either. When these same people as the ones mentioned above are also covered in ugly tattoos, it becomes a major fashion disaster.
I wonder what these people are going to look like when they turn 70, 80 years old and their skin has gotten all wrinkly and wobbly? What will those tattoos look like then? Hopefully they'll still be viewing themselves with the same set of eyes and mirrors they used to buy a bathing suit.
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