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Best mid-sized bikini

37 replies

PowderPants · 15/07/2025 20:53

Any recommendations- something with some support, good bum coverage but not boring?
Size 14, 5 foot 9, long legs, smaller boobs, slight c section overhang.
Very bored of Boden offerings.
thank you

OP posts:
EstherGreenwood63 · 17/07/2025 16:43

Seafolly or Jets Australia are good quality.

user1476613140 · 17/07/2025 16:46

Asda swim dress £20 has body contour or whatever it's called. Very flattering. I needed it for CS overhang.

ThriftyShopper · 17/07/2025 18:59

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DressingGown · 18/07/2025 00:36

Pour Moi bikinis have worked miracles for me

Discobooloo · 19/07/2025 00:15

Hush bikinis are great and they have a sale on.

I had to go down a size and am a convert to non wire now (D cup).

I felt amazing in them.

NeedANewOne25 · 19/07/2025 08:49

Another vote for Pour Moi. I have the Samoa and Free Spirit styles. They are v comfy.

Passthecake30 · 19/07/2025 13:02

Pourmoi, I have the same bikini as @OldieButBaddie , I’m 6ft, 32f top, 14 bottom (usually a 12 but go larger on bikinis)

EssexCat · 19/07/2025 13:09

I’m another Pour Moi fan. Really good for stylish but supportive. Have a bikini and a strapless costume in the same range.

Sickoffamilydrama · 19/07/2025 20:49

Another one saying Pour Moi my 9 year old Bikini from them is just giving up and getting a bit threadbare. So I'll have to replace it soon.

Cupshe swimming suits are good although some don't have great bum coverage.

yakkity · 19/07/2025 21:27

Ruthietuthie · 16/07/2025 22:09

Ok, so you will look at the price and want to pass out (I did), but you REALLY need to buy a Heidi Klein swim suit or bikini. I haven't worn a bikini in YEARS. Bit of a tummy following pregnancy, breasts small and not what they used to be following nursing (really quite saggy and empty at the top).
I bought a Heidi Klein bikini (after just being fed up of covering up in a tankini and sweating on the beach. I decided that the beach is always full of women in bikinis of all shapes and sizes, so I wasn't going to be uncomfortable and just go with it).
I ordered lots of bikinis. Looked DREADRFUL in all of them. Ordered a Heidi Klein one on a whim. It is ASTONISHING. Honestly, I look gorgeous (okay, I feel gorgeous, and my husband thinks I look gorgeous - objectively, my body is just the body of a middle-aged woman who has had a child). I don't know how they do it, how so much flattering (and incredibly comfortable) scaffolding goes into one small suit, or how they cut the bottoms so they offer plenty of coverage without looking large... It is AMAZING. I am a convert.
On the beach, I wanted to be in photographs with my child for the first time ever. And I felt really good, whether wandering along the shore, lying on a towel, or swimming in the sea.

But their bikini bottoms are too low cut to have scaffolding surely

Ruthietuthie · 19/07/2025 21:43

@yakkity, I have honestly no idea how it works, but something about the cut of the bottoms just distracts entirely from my (after pregnancy, will never be quite the same again) tummy.
I was astonished too.

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