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When do you become too old to wear a bikini?

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MissMiss1 · 28/05/2015 21:49

At what age do you become too old to wear a bikini n start wearing a full swimming costume.

I'm in my early 40s n have been looking for some new swimwear. Everywhere I go everything seems either tiny, too brightly coloured, not the right shape and far too young looking.

Is it time to admit defeat on the bikini front and start looking at swimming costumes?

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TheWordFactory · 30/05/2015 18:10

pink you seem absurdly invested in describing bikini wearers negatively.

If you don't like them don't wear them. But why try to put others off?

Pagwatch · 30/05/2015 18:14

It is all sounding a bit bizarre and stepford.

Plus quoting anthropologie make me laugh a bit. I have half a dozen dresses from there in the full knowledge that the shop is totally 'we saw you coming'

There are no real rules. Just know what suits you and what feels comfy.

limitedperiodonly · 30/05/2015 18:22

I look uncannily like that picture of Paulina Porizkova in age, body shape and bikini style that someone posted.

Except better Wink

I forgot to say that Running Backwards Man in Ibiza wears a thong. But you probably guessed that.

Bakeoffcake · 30/05/2015 18:35

Thankfully I don't take any notice of what a newspaper advises me to wear.
I'm not a sheep I hate to have got to the age of 49 and decide what to wear based on other people's opinion.

So I will continue to wear bikinis because they look better on me than a swim suit. And I don't give a shit what anyone thinks who happens to look at me on the beach.

Lweji · 30/05/2015 18:35

I like my tummy to dry fast. It's bad enough that the padded tops take ages.

vindscreenviper · 30/05/2015 18:37

How on earth does that swimsuit stay in place? Surely any movement would send it straight up where the sun don't shine. Can you use tit tape on your labia? Would the Dragons be interested in investing in "Twat Tape "?
If I wore that my nethers would look like a chinchilla in a string bag.

limitedperiodonly · 30/05/2015 18:39

I'm quite crepey and sunspotted and jowly.

That's what happens when you're fifty-fucking-one-years-old whether you wear a bikini and baste yourself in baby oil or hide away in a bathing machine.

LikeABadSethRogenMovie · 30/05/2015 18:39

Aren't everybody's tummy's going to get saggy and crepey eventually?! It's hardly a reason to cover up if you don't want to.

Bakeoffcake · 30/05/2015 18:40

Limited, I've changed my mind about Running Backwards Man. I don't want to see a man in a thong especially if he's running backwards!

Brain bleach now needed.

TheWordFactory · 30/05/2015 18:42

lewji wet padded tops are a mare, I agree.

I find it hilarious that you effectively have to wrong them put after a swim GrinGrin.

TheWordFactory · 30/05/2015 18:43

Wring them out!

Roussette · 30/05/2015 18:47

Pink not crepey, not totally toned either but a bikini suits me and brown fat is better than white fat (and also sweat bumpy blisters that come out on my stomach when covered up in a one piece.)

I need to feel free and unencumbered when lazing in the shade on a beach. And I'm old. And I go topless on a beach sometimes when it's that sort of beach. I don't care a damn about anyone else and what they think either. I just love the look of women enjoying themselves without the angst.

limitedperiodonly · 30/05/2015 18:58

I don't want to see a man in a thong especially if he's running backwards!

Oh but you do Bakeoffcake

It's a highlight of the afternoon and the antidote to all those tedious people who say they can't understand why people like me lie in the sun for hours.

I don't know what they do but I read improving books, thus shading my face from the sun, while waiting for Running Backwards Man to come by in his thong.

MinimumPayment · 30/05/2015 19:06

Surely if you're engrossed in an improving nook you run the risk of missing the backwards running thong man.....

TheWordFactory · 30/05/2015 19:10

I love checking out what peeps are reading on holiday ( damn you Kindle).

Last year there was a bloke reading the autobiography of a steeple jack! Or the ones who read the same copy of Grazia for a week!

I decided I would become an author when I saw half the folk around the pool trading the same book ( this is the 90s).

Bunbaker · 30/05/2015 19:27

Loving the auto corrects on here. Don't you just love being a victim of Apple marketing Grin

"I'm quite crepey and sunspotted and jowly.

That's what happens when you're fifty-fucking-one-years-old whether you wear a bikini and baste yourself in baby oil or hide away in a bathing machine."

I am 56 and am not crepey or sunpotted, and only a teeny bit jowly.

Blanchett · 30/05/2015 20:27

You should wear what you feel comfortable in whatever your age. Personally I feel crap in one until I get a tan but it's worth it as the thought of white flab under a cossie is horrendous!

Bakeoffcake · 30/05/2015 21:09

"Engrossed in an improving nook" Grin

I like the sound of that.

limitedperiodonly · 30/05/2015 21:19

I am 56 and am not crepey or sunpotted, and only a teeny bit jowly.

Well bully for you bunbaker

I don't understand your Apple marketing or auto correct reference.

Do explain.

limitedperiodonly · 30/05/2015 21:33

Surely if you're engrossed in an improving nook you run the risk of missing the backwards running thong man.....

No MinimumPayment because I have an internal clock in my head.

It's powered by the passage of the sun and the tide and the passing of a middle-aged man running backwards in the grip of dodgy swimwear.

It's how I know that 5pm is Gin O'Clock time without looking at a watch.

It's quite magical.

DeeWe · 30/05/2015 22:48

When you look like 2 rubber bands on an egg is probably time to stop.

Lweji · 30/05/2015 22:56

What do two rubber bands on an egg look like?

Molio · 30/05/2015 23:13

I'm a size 10 elderly multigravida (eight DC) who lives by the beach but wears a '50's style navy spotted swimsuit for the sake of other beach users. It's just more dignified. Toast sale 2012 or 13.

lavenderhoney · 31/05/2015 00:24

There is no age limit!

I make sure mine fit and support my bust. The making of bikinis in cup sizes is wonderful. I also wear a one piece when I feel like it. I am ( ahem) rather more hour glass than I was a few years ago, but I don't think I frighten the horses or anything:)

I lived abroad in hot places and everyone wore whetever they liked, and at the expat club it was very refreshing and weird to only meet people in their bikinis and swimmers, regardless of age, shape.

Sash, I liked that comment about society and not letting it define you. Very interesting thought:)

ginzillas · 31/05/2015 06:13

I'm 21 weeks pregnant and tried to get a maternity tankini for our recent holiday to Spain. I couldn't find one that wasn't frumpy or ill fitting or just made me look like a big round beach ball.

So I dug out some old bikinis from a few years ago that are a couple of sizes up from the size I take now (I lost a bit of weight a few years ago). They were fine.

Anyway, once we were on the beach, I felt totally fine. There were loads of other preggers ladies rocking two pieces, along with women of all shapes, sizes and ages. My mum pointed out a woman who must have been in her eighties who was being escorted along the beach by her hubby. She was wearing the most fabulous bikini and looked fantastic and totally at ease with herself. My mum said to me 'There you go - you're never too old for a bikini.'

I always worry about what I'm going to look like on the beach but once I'm there, I'm having such a nice time, I forget to care.

Just do it!