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Digital Print Swimwear

One of the biggest trends in swimwear this season is not about the design and instead is all about the fabric. Digital fabrics are in vogue everywhere in summer. You will find every single kind of print imaginable on a swimsuit this season.

 

One trend is for large portraits of animal faces. You will see a lion’s fate on the bottom part of a suit or on a bikini bottom.  Pandas, wolves, eagles, dolphins, otters and all kinds of other photographic digital prints are seen on Bikini wear.

 

 

Yet another trend is for prints of skies. Dreamy blue skies with clouds floating across them is a trend as are prints that depict an atmospheric disturbance such as tornadoes, thunderstorms or swirling clouds. Cosmological themes that feature the depictions of the stars or planets are also popular.

 

Wildfox is a company that has become very popular for producing this type of swimwear.  A signature piece is a photo of a big brown horse that is emblazoned across the front of atone piece suit. They also make a bright white sporty style suit with a large white kitten with blue eyes on the front.

 

Prints can also be very surreal in look.  Flowers done in symmetrical is a popular theme.  A very new age pattern features ultra large gemstones and crystals in pinks, greens and yellows festooning the front of a suit.   Images of fish, either in an aquarium like goldfish, in a pond like Koi or from the ocean like sharks are also special prints.

 

The hippest prints hiver a sepia, purple and pink tone as if the images were made on a slightly off color copier. A one-piece suit featuring the towering palm trees of Hollywood Boulevard is a customer favorite of the company called We Are Handsome. This company also does prints of city landscapes and distributes them over the bodice of the suit like a collection of mini-snapshots. This type of fashion approach to print works very well as a collage of several photographs.

 

Prints look great on the front of a one-piece suit because in that case they look more like a canvas.  On two pieces suits the bottom rear is the part of the bikini that may have the most impact in terms of showcasing a startling image such as a snarling wolf or a Panda’s façade.

 

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The Crop Top is Back for Summer

This summer the crop top is back with a vengeance. It is shorter, boxier and lower cut than ever for the most part.  For those of you not familiar with a crop top it is a top that is cut just at the rib cage so that the abs are exposed. This means getting your abs in shape because they need to be wonderfully sculpted if you are going to wear this look.

 

Crop tops were originally invented in the forties to be worn on hot days with Capri pants. Nowadays they are worn with just about any type of bottom including pencil skirts, flounced skirts and ballerina style skirts.  The skirt does not have to match the pattern on the crop top. In fact it s very fashionable to shake up how you match the top and the bottom just a little bit.  Whatever you do choose a bottom with a very fitted waist or you might look sloppy.

 

The designers Edun and DKNY are making crop tops that look more like sports bra but with a bit of a tight fitted military inspiration.  Edun’s top was super skimpy and done in khakis with lots of straps and paired with a sleeveless chiffon overshirt.  DKNY’s is very fitted like a swimsuit top and paired with a circlet of fabric that goes just below the knee.  Khakis, browns, tans and military greens were seen in a lot of crop top designs so far.

 

Some of the crop tops expected to show up in stores this summer are quite sexy and feminine. Many have spaghetti straps or inbuilt bras with pretty details that make them seem like a short camisole or even like a bra.  The designer Chloe and Rochas presented very feminine looks like this on their runways this Spring.  One big trend is going to be wear two thin lingerie look tops with one over the other with a pair of low slung baggy military style pants.

 

Boxy shaped cropped tops that are reminiscent of the eighties are also back in style. These tops have sleeves or not and are cut loose across chest.  The best way to describe them is truncated Mandarin style tops.

 

Boob tubes is an old term that refers to a strip of cloth that fits around the chest area that does not have straps and exposes the belly. Versace has done a series of glitzed up versions of these made out of lace, studs, netting and black leather that are fit to wear out to a ball.

 

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