Bikini or swimsuit? Choose whichever makes you feel like your best self | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion

Bikini or swimsuit? Choose whichever makes you feel like your best self | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion

Ask yourself what you’d be comfortable in on the beach when shouting at the kids about suncream

On the beach, in the park and at the lido, a battle as old as time – or at least, as old as Brigitte Bardot – is back. Are you team swimsuit, or team bikini? The bikini is back in the game. For a few summers, the one-piece had the fashion momentum. But in fashion, as in life, change is the one thing you can bet on. So much so that it could be time to cross the floor.

I have always been a bikini person. This has less to do with fashion than with comfort. There are women in swimwear all around us – on adverts, in shop windows, on social media – which makes it easy to think of swimwear as an aesthetic choice. But it is not really – unless you are, or are likely to be, a Love Island contestant. For the rest of us, swimwear is only for rare days when we are very lucky with both the weather and our to-do list. Those days don’t come around all that often, so all that counts is that what you wear makes those days better.

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