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Welcome to Dahlia Swimwear…We Offer the latest styles for 2008 swimwear, swimsuits, women’s swimwear, junior swimwear, swimwear separates and accessories. Treat yourself to our wide offerings of one piece swimwear and bikinis, as well as our plus size swimwear.
Dahlia Girl is designer swimwear, designer swimsuits and coordinating accessories. For 2008, we present a wide palette of colors, textures and prints in our women’s swimsuits as well as our women’s swimwear.
Dahlia Swimwear, we search for high fashion designers who offer coordinating accessories with their designer swimsuits. We also look for bathing suits that are appealing to a wide variety of interests, proportions, and ages. Our collection includes one-piece swimwear, bikinis, two-piece swimsuits, junior swimwear, swimwear separates, bikini swimsuits and coordinating apparel for women, teens, juniors, and misses.
Explore our designer swimwear silhouettes such as the many variations of the bikini, one-piece suits, swimwear separates, and the very sophisticated maillots. You can complement your new bikini swimwear, two piece swimwear, or one piece swimsuit with coordinating designer swimwear accessories. Create your fashion forward wardrobe and embellish your favorite women's swimwear or junior swimwear with a sarong, shirt, pant, and other swimwear accessories.
Welcome to Dahlia Swimwear…We Offer the latest styles for 2008 swimwear, swimsuits, women’s swimwear, junior swimwear, swimwear separates and accessories. Treat yourself to our wide offerings of one piece swimwear and bikinis, as well as our plus size swimwear.
Dahlia Girl is designer swimwear, designer swimsuits and coordinating accessories. For 2008, we present a wide palette of colors, textures and prints in our women’s swimsuits as well as our women’s swimwear.
Dahlia Swimwear, we search for high fashion designers who offer coordinating accessories with their designer swimsuits. We also look for bathing suits that are appealing to a wide variety of interests, proportions, and ages. Our collection includes one-piece swimwear, bikinis, two-piece swimsuits, junior swimwear, swimwear separates, bikini swimsuits and coordinating apparel for women, teens, juniors, and misses.
Explore our designer swimwear silhouettes such as the many variations of the bikini, one-piece suits, swimwear separates, and the very sophisticated maillots. You can complement your new bikini swimwear, two piece swimwear, or one piece swimsuit with coordinating designer swimwear accessories. Create your fashion forward wardrobe and embellish your favorite women's swimwear or junior swimwear with a sarong, shirt, pant, and other swimwear accessories.
Swimsuits are designed to cover at least the genitals and in most cultures women's breasts. Men's swimsuit styles are swimming trunks such as boardshorts, jammers, speedo-style briefs, thongs, g-strings or bikini. Women's swimsuits are generally either one-pieces, bikinis or thongs. The most recent innovation is the burqini, a more modest garment designed for Muslim women; it covers the whole body and head (but not face) in a manner similar to a diver's wetsuit.
The monokini, a style of swimsuit that most often takes the form of a bikini bottom without the corresponding top, leaves a woman's breasts uncovered. Monokinis are quite common in many places throughout South America[citation needed] and Europe, though due to particularly stringent taboos they are almost never seen in the United States, except in places with a strong European tourist influence. For pre-pubescent girls leaving the chest uncovered is sometimes considered acceptable.
A U.S. Marine in Jammers
A U.S. Marine in Jammers
Special swimsuits for competitive swimming, designed to reduce skin drag, can resemble unitards. For some kinds of swimming and diving, special bodysuits called diveskins are worn. These suits are made from spandex and provide little thermal protection, but they do protect the skin from stings and abrasion. Most competitive swimmers also wear special swimsuits including partial and full bodysuits, racerback styles, jammers and racing briefs to assist their glide through the water and gain speed advantages (see competitive swimwear).
Swimming without a bathing suit is a form of social nudity. Special nude beaches may be reserved for nude sunbathing and swimming. Swimming in the nude is also known by the slang term "skinny-dipping". As an alternative to a bathing suit some people use their trousers, underpants or T-shirt as a make-shift swimsuit. At beaches norms for this tend to be more relaxed than at swimming pools, which tend not to permit this because underwear is unlined, may become translucent, and may be perceived as unclean.
Swimsuits are also worn for the purpose of body display in beauty pageants. Magazines like Sports Illustrated's annual "swimsuit issue" feature models and sports personalities in swimsuits.
[edit] Women's swimsuits
Girls wearing one piece swimsuits.
Girls wearing one piece swimsuits.
[edit] One-piece swimsuits
* Tank suit, leotard or simply one-piece: Probably the most common form of one-piece swimsuit, the tank suit form is inspiration for the subsequent creation of the tank top as a mainstream article of clothing. The name "tank suit" is derived from the term "swimming tank", an obsolete term for what is now called a swimming pool.
* Monokini: a term used for different styles of one-piece swimsuits inspired by the bikini style. Most commonly, a monokini is a bikini bottom without the corresponding top, worn by women, that leaves the breasts bare. Sling bikinis are sometimes, though not often, referred to as monokinis.
* Thong swimsuit: One-piece swimsuit with thong back, buttocks exposed, otherwise ordinary
A woman in bikini
A woman in bikini
* Sling bikini: also known as a "suspender bikini", "suspender thong", "slingshot bikini" or just "slingshot". The slingshot is a one-piece suit which provides as little, or even less, coverage (or as much exposure) as a bikini. Usually, a slingshot resembles a bikini bottom, but rather than the straps going around the hips or waist, the side straps extend upwards to cover the breasts and go over the shoulders, leaving the entire sides of the torso uncovered, but the nipples and pubic area covered. Behind the neck, the straps join and reach down the back to become a thong.[citation needed]
* Pretzel suit: a one-piece suit similar to a sling bikini, but the straps encircle the torso around the bottom of the ribcage, forming a very high-sided bikini bottom; instead of the straps passing over the neck and down the back, they simply encircle the neck, joining the straps which pass around the midriff.
[edit] Two-piece swimsuits
* Bikini.
o Thong, T-back or G-string.
o Tankini: A tank top combined with a bikini bottom.
* Stringbodys, halter-necks, maillots and plunge fronts.
[edit] Swimsuit for Muslim women
Rimma Bawazier, Indonesian model in Muslim swimsuit
Rimma Bawazier, Indonesian model in Muslim swimsuit
These are an updated version of full-body swimwear, which has been available for centuries, but complies with Islam's traditional emphasis on modest dress. They are also increasingly stylish, such as incorporating intricate sequin designs with miniskirts that go over long pants. Indonesia based ZEHBA is one of the key players in the Muslim identity apparel industry while they are increasingly popular in Turkey, Malaysia, US, Australasia and Europe.
* Burqini: Designed by Lebanese Australian Aheda Zanetti for Muslim women, the suit covers enough to preserve Muslim modesty, but is light enough to enable swimming. The name "burqini" is a portmanteau of burqa and bikini.
In Egypt, the term "Sharia swimsuit" is used to describe full-body swimwear.[1]
[edit] Men's swimsuits or Swimming trunks
A boy wearing boardshorts
A boy wearing boardshorts
* Briefs: The style varies from a speedo to thongs or g-string.
* Thong (clothing): Style varies with pouch design, materials, colors and back (including Y-back, V-back and T-back variations).
* G-string: Minimum coverage front and back.
* Boardshorts: The length goes down to the knees. Most French swimming pools forbid these for sanitary reasons.
* Jammers: a type of men's swimwear worn primarily by competitive athletes to obtain speed advantages. They are made of nylon and lycra/spandex material and have a form fitting design to reduce water resistance. They provide moderate coverage from the mid-waist to the area above the knee, somewhat resembling compression shorts worn by many athletes. They provide greater leg coverage than speedos or competitive briefs, although they also have slightly more water resistance.
[edit] Competitive Swimwear
Unlike regular swimsuits, which are designed mainly for the physical appearances, competitive swimwear is manufactured for the purpose of aiding athletes in swim competitions. They reduce friction and drag in the water, increasing the efficiency of the swimmer's forward motion. The tight fits allow for easy movement and are said to reduce muscle vibration, [2] thus reducing drag.
[edit] Relation to Science
Engineers are greatly involved in the development of competitive swimsuits. It is as of late (in the year 2000 approximately) that in effort to improve the effectiveness of the swimsuits, engineers have taken to designing them to replicate the skin of sea based animals, sharks in particular. [3]
Newton’s third law, the law of Reciprocal Actions, states that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction and it explains the terms “applied force” and “friction force” –also known as drag/resistance. The applied force is the forward motion that the swimmer creates when swimming, and the friction force (in this case, it’s the water resistance) is the force pushing against the swimmer backwards. These swim suits are created in order to make water resistance as minimal as possible and thus allowing a swimmer to move more efficiently in water. The company Speedo for example, came out with a swimsuit called “Fastskin”. It was discovered by scientists studying sharkskin that human skin is inadequate at “slicing” the water because of its porous design. [4] Sharkskin is made of scales spaced very closely together called dermal denticles. It is the grooves in between the scales that produce drag resistant skin. [5] The ridges allow water to pass around the shark more efficiently.
