Three Most Common Swimwear Styles

Not all swimwear pieces come in free sizes and, nope, they certainly don't look good at all to everybody who wears them. Hold your horses on purchasing one without reading this page. If you want to look your best in swimwear, go over this list of most common swimwear styles and check if the style you're eyeing will look hot on you.

• ONE-PIECE SUIT. If you are generally the conservative type, then this swimwear is for you. A classic piece that befits most body types, this style aims to provide maximum coverage for your body while allowing you to move about in the water, pool or shores unrestricted. Although it comes in various prints and colors, the cut of the one-piece suit is basically the same. The straps, bottoms and leg openings, however, may vary. Straps may be thick or spaghetti-thin; they may also sport the traditional style, the halter or the cross. Some one-piece suits have ruffled bottoms and built-in cover skirts to further conceal your front and behind areas. Others have none of these extra fabric pieces at all, sporting instead more provocative and daring leg openings such as the V cut or high cut that flaunts your pelvic bones. With the exception of the V-cut and high-cut varieties, there is little need for you to get a Brazilian wax before donning a one-piece suit.

• TANKINI. If you want to merge practicality and conservatism, then this swimwear is for you. A swim wear that consists of two pieces: a tank top and a bottom, this less clingy swimwear style is perfect for you and your friends if you have any of the following body problems: a less-than-curvaceous figure, a fat belly or an undefined waistline. Aside from de-emphasizing your unwanted body excesses, or lack thereof, the tankini further sports a bonus: your ease of using the bathroom without having to take off your entire suit. While the top of the tankini is basically the same, the bottom sports different varieties that range from the more conservative boy legs to the more seductive bikini bottoms.

• BIKINI. If you want to look hot and want no holds barred, then this swimwear is for you. A way more daring version of the one-piece suit and the tankini, this swimwear blares of seduction and more skin. More popularly known as “the two-piece,” this swimwear style boosts your sex appeal to higher levels, providing less coverage of your body and more exposure of your abs, navel, skin and other assets. Particularly, bikini tops closely mimic that of your brassiere and the bottoms offer a myriad of interesting options such as titillating string straps, the ultra-provocative micro-kini and leg opening cuts that really require you to wax your pubic area to a shiny finish. Select this style if you have a body that is the envy of the entire town: curvaceous, full and simply delectable.

Like regular clothes, swimwear pieces require you to know what liabilities you need to play down and what assets you need to play up. Before closing any deal, do not forget to spend a few minutes in the fitting room.