I looked online for modest swimwear and these are a few of the options out there for us modest ladies.
Seriously, these swimsuits cannot be safe when wet.
Then again you could always go Mom style.
Mom....the woman is petite, has no cellulite and without much exercise has always had a great shape (ask Dad), and even she won't step foot in a real bathing suit. They say Mother knows best, and ever since I can remember, my dear mother has always worn a bathing suit like this:
As an adult (and after a few very large babies), I can actually appreciate the cuteness of this swimsuit. It's sweet and could be kind of fun to wear, although staying afloat might be a problem.
Can you even imagine a world without tugging, pulling, adjusting, or yanking? Just good old fashioned fun in the sun?
Sometimes I think maybe I should just be the one to follow in Mother's footsteps; take the plunge, throw caution to the wind, forget modern society, and step out in this old fashioned swimming costume. And then other times I think I better just make a quick run to Target and find something (anything!) large and dark to cover up this body with.
Either way I can't wait to see you all at the Reunion....and hopefully no one will be wearing The Swimming Blues!
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Heidi:
This made me laugh so hard this morning. Those bathing suits are from some other time, some other place, some other religion. I don't think we've solved the bathing suit problem yet, but the suit like Mom's is looking cuter and cuter all the time.
Yikes! Some other religoin is right! We went swimming last Saturday and boy did I have the swimming suit blues. So this morning there is a certain destination I am making my way to....could it be..uhh...Target! Yes, to try to find something, anyting that doesn't cost a fortune and covers my "please don't even look at me" areas. Good luck to me!
Heidi,
I want that blue suit. I am not kidding one little bit.
I will be the first to follow in Mom's suit steps! I promise to wear it and be proud.
Send me the website, Heidi. I'll order one immediately.
ALSO, We all thought it was Erin. Holly, Annie and Erin Leigh all said, "Is that Aunt Erin?"
It looked just like her.
Mom always wanted Erin to design bathing suits after she got done working with wood.
All right, once again, Mom was smarter than all of us, all along.
Those cuckoo bathing suits, make the Mom suits look stylish! Now I kind of want a Mom one!
Leslie, I think I could do it, too. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. Erin says that I am too young to give up, but I don't see it that way. Think how liberating it would be to wear! We'd just be getting back to our roots.
The only problem is that the mom-suit costs $150! I'm not kidding.
Maybe I should just purchase a beautiful formal dress and swim in that...add some jewelry and an updo...it would probably cost me the same and I'm sure I would get more compliments, but maybe less stares :)
ps...mikey thought it looked like erin, too...
I'm so bummed that the "Mom suit" is $150. I was just about to leave a comment asking for the website! I'm like Leslie, I want it too, adn I'm not kidding! It's really cute! Although a pink fluffy formal would be cute, too! And a tiara!!!
Oh my gosh, Heidi,
I laughed so hard that you should just purchase a formal dress and swim in that, and add some jewelry and an up-do.
Can you imagine? (This is my hairdresser's favorite line...whenever she tells me a funny story or an outrage at something she ends it with, "Can you imagine?" And the thing is, I always can.
I can just imagine you in a beautiful, pale blue gown, just like Ivy's at her Birthday party.
You could be Cinderella at the pool, or Cinderella by the sea!
Why not. They already have Cinderella on ice.
Also Heidi,
Don't think of it as giving up. Let's think of it as giving in.
It's like you said, We're just returning to our roots.
There's a certain circularity to all of this.
Maybe we should buy 9 of these for all the girls and Mom, too.
If only Great Grandma Freeman were still here she could make them for all of us.
We could all go to her house this summer for a fitting, and have a vanilla ice cream cone or some root beer while we sit at the yellow formica table waiting for our turn, and someone could play a few notes on the organ with the light up-orange button.
Mom should be proud of us, Heidi. She always wanted everyone of us to be" An Old Fashioned Girl".
OH this is so much fun. Can you all leave comments like this every day. I'm so glad you think the blue girl looked like me. When I first read it, I thought you meant the PURPLE girl on top. I was downtrodden. I think I really am color blind kind of. I need help with shades and then I get my feelings hurt because I thought I was hefty mama in the purple suit.
Okay now I am laughing outloud. You are all so funny.
ERIN...That is too funny. Of course, that is not YOU in any way, shape, or form! That lady (if it is a lady) looks nothing like you from head to toe. You really do need to get your eyes checked--someone recently told me you can have degrees of color blindness and only towards particular shades...Anyway, NO! you look like the beautiful feminine slender lady in the BLUE old fashioned swimsuit, silly.
Now can I talk you into one.
Leslie,
I love all your comments. You are cracking me up. Maybe Mom would be willing to sew them for us herself. Great Grandma's house was always so much fun. Either way, what are we doing to do???? Can you imagine???
As a man I am supposed to be sensitive and loving, but I have my limits. I do like the idea of my wife being able to step right out of the pool and still be modest enough to go directly on splits with the missionaries. At first when Heidi was threatening to buy the purple prize I threatened to buy and wear a flourescent green speedo, and a matching one for Shane too! Dont get too excited ladies I looked in the mirror and decided modesty is not so bad, and I am going to be wearing a full body wetsuit with a gold chain, and Shane will wear one too with a neck tie. Maybe we can add big pleather belts to spice it up. If we get those bathing suits, can we make our own cheese, wear flats, or running shoes with long dresses and grow our hear long? Mikey
Oh Prudy,
You poor thing. Of course we thought you were the pretty girl at the seashore, and not the polygamist by the sea.
Erin, I thought she looked just like you and so did my whole family. I really truly thought that maybe it was you on Nantucket, or some other lovely, upscale seaside community.
(Isn't this fun? I love reading everyone's comments.
Where are Mom and Dad? They should be in on this too. And where are, "The Brothers?")
Mary Kate just told me the other day she thought you had color shade blindness. I had no idea.
I did not know this.
Just know we all thought you were the pretty girl!
The PURPLE GIRL!!!! You have got to be kidding me! I was lauging so hard at this Erin! The large farm girl, who even in a picture has a visible amount of upper lip hair! No,no,no, pretty Erin! Your're the lovely sea foam girl with that beautiful slender neck of yours and a crown of raven black placed upon it. I'm sorry you could ever think such a thing but boy it was funny!
Les,
I loved Polygamist by the sea!Hilarious!
OH POOR POOR ERIN! I am literally rolling on the floor, laughing my head off!!!! I'm not kidding I'm crying!!! I cannot believe you thought we were all thinking the purple polygamist!!! Did you hate everyone all day today!!! I accidentally clicked on her yesterday and enlarged her and to tell you the truth I'm really not sure it is a her! Horrifying image!
I'm grateful for the comments-except Mikey's-but I have to say that I know that I DO look like the "purple" polygamist. I don't want to invite stares, but get a load of me at the reunion with no makeup on just out of the water. Color blindness or not-me and Purple Plig have a bit too much in common. Actually, she has a better figure than I do, so she's one up.
Why is no one commenting about Fiddle Flakes?
They used to come in an orange package, remember.
The Fiddle Flakes are not getting enough of a response, and they were a staple in our home.
Please everyone,
scroll down and pay attention to The Fiddle Flakes.
I'm on the Fiddle Flakes Case.
Scroll down. You can count on me.
I'm coming fiddle flakes!!!!
I'm on my way.
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