I've found the perfect swimwear for tummy control coverage

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I've always struggled to look good in the triangle style bikinis as they don't give me enough coverage, and I find a lot of costumes are too high on the legs for me (I'm size 14) So I've been hunting for alternatives and came across BettyLicious online. The have retro bikinis and swimsuits which look perfect. Any one else tried these retro styles?

I think they make thighs look massive and legs short
I am a bikini fan

at the prices!

Agree with Ronald, I used to long for this sort of swimsuit and then when I tried on on I looked like a barrel on stumps

These don't look good on me either. I look much better in a fake tankini. So it's really a one piece, but looks like a two. Debenhams have some brilliant ones, the underneath is a tummy control mesh, with a tankini kind of thing over the top.

And I have to say, this feels somewhat like an advertisement...

Great first post.

Oh these sort of things always go on about how they are for "curves" and "real women" but the real women I've seen in 50's style cossies always look stumpy (myself included). I think a plain black one piece or tankini with a mid cut leg is as flattering as its possible to get unless you're a model shape.

I agree, even the models look hefty. What chance the rest of us?
Swimwear, for me, is a matter of finding the least humiliating option that contains and supports my boobs, then hoping no one actually looks at me when I'm wearing it.

I never actually feel good, or confident with so much flesh on show, so I can't see how legs cut low across the thighs can change that.
I'm a size 12, btw.

Welcome to MN.

In reality, something that sits quite high up with a higher leg is more flattering. Like this www.mandco.com/all-swimwear/butterfly-pattern-bikini-briefs/invt/2931990blue&bklist=icat,10,10028,10028670,10028210

Debenhams fake tankinis sound VERY interesting - could you possibly link, Koothra?

It's my mission in life - well, one of them - to find a reasonably priced tummy control swimsuit!

I have an M&S one like that. But it was half the price. With the usual 'M&S logic' they stopped selling the 5-star rated item that kept selling out...

Frasers do a similar 'Biba' style.

www.peacocks.co.uk/lds-halter-neck-swimsuit-tie-aqua.html

Teeny -

Here's one, but they do other styles. They come with straps by the way.

m.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_064020213547_-1

I found the others:

I have this: m.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_064020213460_-1

And this is another style:

m.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_064020213347_-1

Thanks, Koothra, I like those.

I was imagining a tankini with some sort if American tan mesh in the gap!

Cereal no one wants to see my flabby belly, mesh or no mesh! Sorry if I didn't describe it very well.

Have you checked our For Luna swimwear? www.forluna.co.uk They are perfect for post pregnancy - covered up my mum tum and mad eye feel fab!