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What are we meant to wear? Maybe “ordinary” garments aren’t the answer: maybe we deserve to wear swimsuits. The swimsuit like a prat-a-porter has been on the catwalk for years, though it has rarely been on the streets of New York. In the past, we have noted it as a trend at best, as a lightly veiled marketing contraption at worst: an attempt through a logo to stop its opening on the catwalk. It only took a global pandemic to suddenly feel pragmatic.
New Yorkers understood this too: Last Saturday, I saw a woman dressed in soft linen trousers in a bright print suit on Orchard Street, much like a look proposed through Stella McCartney for spring 2017. I wear the most sensitive bikini with midi skirts and unbuttoned linen shirts, a spacious, crease-free jumpsuit that looks like integrated air conditioning. I lost count of women dressed in triangular bikinis and headbands as the “most sensitive” with high-waisted skirts or, in one cases, under a white jumpsuit. A bikini is not a jump ahead of a short or sporty bra, but there is something more liberating about dressing in a suit in the middle of an urban metropolis; Last spring, Maryam Nassir Zadeh combined strapless bikinis with long skirts, and she “merged” her life in New York with her life on the beach.
That said, it’s not a trend for which you have to do intellectual gymnastics; it is simple, convenient and your most productive choice is to stay fresh until September. The genuine merit is to free your brain from the anguish of sweating through your clothes or a little too pink. Chances are you already have a suit (or five) at your disposal; scroll through some other tactics to use it below.
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