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<\/a>I received a lot of crap regarding my Swimsuit Identity Crisis<\/a> blog posting. “Why would you want a skirted swimsuit?” “You don’t need to wear something like that.”, etc.<\/p>\nBut let’s get to the bottom line.<\/p>\n
I’m lazy.<\/p>\n
Most of my regulars have met me in person. For those who haven’t met me, you can look to the right and see the picture of me. I have dark hair. I have thick hair. Friends have flatteringly told me about how they’d kill for hair like mine (blush).<\/p>\n
But there’s a flip side. Not to gross you out, but consider that beautiful lush dark thick hair translated to my legs, armpits…and, ahem, other<\/em> areas.<\/p>\n Back in the 50s and 60s, the term was “defuzzing”. How dainty, delicate. Ugh.<\/p>\n My Chinese Mom doesn’t even have to shave her legs at all (seriously, you can’t see a thing!). I think she was quite appalled at the jungle that erupted on my legs when I was 11-12 years old. <\/p>\n Ever met a girl with 5 ‘o clock shadow on her LEGS?<\/p>\n Anyway, one of the corollary reasons for wanting a skirted swimsuit was that I could avoid the whole shaving\/waxing\/plucking of the bikini line. I tried the boy-short suit one season, that was okay, but the skirt seemed prettier.<\/p>\n Ultimately it was Dave who convinced me to skip the skirt-thing altogether this year, and I selected this suit<\/a>, tankini top<\/a> and bikini bottom<\/a>, both in the Geo Dot pattern, from Athleta<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you dare, check out the latest poll…it’s a wild one, don’t worry, it’s anonymous! Men, feel free to reply, there’s an option for you too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay, this had come up some time ago, but I’m just now getting around to addressing it. I received a lot of crap regarding my Swimsuit Identity Crisis blog posting. “Why would you want a skirted swimsuit?” “You don’t need to wear something like that.”, etc. But let’s get to the bottom line. I’m lazy. 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(Notice how much larger the picture of the bottom is here — that’s about how I had to buy these, really!)
So I’m back to the summer routine of waxing and plucking. Shaving doesn’t cut it (no pun intended).<\/p>\n