Why I'm done with swimsuits!
Corin wrote a piece about swimsuits that started funny... the parking lot nipple tuck, the post-lake adjustment choreography, the seaweed situation... and it ended up somewhere more uncomfortable.
The part that stuck with her: the swimsuit doesn't cover insecurity. It manufactures it. It takes your body and turns it into a fit problem requiring a solution. Too much here, not enough there, wrong shape for this cut. The suit becomes the standard and your body becomes the variable that either measures up or doesn't.
She gets to a place at the end that some people will push back on, and others will completely recognize from their own experience. Either way, it's worth the read.
The swimsuit is uncomfortable, anxiety-inducing, and philosophically incoherent. Corin makes the case for leaving it on the beach where it b

















