Womens Swim Shorts

Women swim shorts are generally bikinis, thongs or one-piece. The latest in trend swimming short is burqini specially designed for muslim women.

There are special bodysuits for diving purpose known as diveskins. These women swim shorts are designed to provide little thermal protection to the body but not a perfect protector of the body.

Women swim shorts can be loose fitting or skin tight. These women swim suits covers at least bottom half of the breasts but some of them are designed in a way so that top part of the suit can be removed separately.

Women Swim Shorts Styles:

One Piece: The most common form of the swim wears. These are also known as tank suit or maillot. Some women consider is more modest than a two piece bikini. Some styles of one piece are maillot or tank suit, pretzel suit, fastback, racerback and flyback. A recent innovation in one piece is bodyskin which resembles a wetsuit which cover the entire torso, legs and arms but these are not very modest styles, good for professional swimmers.

Bikini: This swim suit covers breasts and buttocks. Lot of variations is available in the market for this style. Bikini is also known as two piece. Bikini tops come in various cuts and styles like a rectangular strip of cloth minimizing large breasts, a top with cups very similar to push up bra, a strapless bandeau.

Bikini bottom also comes in various cuts and styles. Complete underwear style, shorts, briefs with small skirt panel. There are some skimpy styles available like French cut (with High-cut side) and low cut string, V-cut in front.

Monokini :       This is very new and more popular among female group swimmers. This is a one piece and exposes the breasts originally invented in 1964. Many stylish variations are available in the market for this style. It can be referred as bikini bottom. This is also known as topless swimsuit.