{"id":132,"date":"2008-05-07T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/05\/the-skirted-swimsuit-revealed.html"},"modified":"2008-05-07T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T15:10:00","slug":"the-skirted-swimsuit-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/05\/the-skirted-swimsuit-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skirted Swimsuit — Revealed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, this had come up some time ago, but I’m just now getting around to addressing it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/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>\n

But 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

\"\"\"\"(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

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. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[20,616],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dear-husband","tag-ranting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t