When you’re packing to go away for a weekend or a week, to the beach or the lake, think about this: you might want to pack more than one swimsuit. Why? Let me tell you.
5. Trying to put on a still-wet swimsuit is not fun. Having a second one means you can swim twice a day if you want, giving each one proper time to dry out on a hook in the bathroom, or slung over a deck chair.
4. Many of us own more than one swimsuit. Why not use them? Variety is the spice of life, which may well include swimwear.
3. Sometimes wardrobe malfunctions happen. If a strap breaks or a seam unravels, you don’t want to have to rush to the beachwear store to buy an overpriced two-piece with the face of a lion imprinted on it (unless you do, in which case great). To avoid such bathing suit emergencies, bring an extra.
2. Also a variety-based reason: some people like different swimsuit style for different purposes (e.g. one-piece tank for swimming, two-piece bikini or tankini for walking/sitting/lolling on the beach). Bringing more than one bathing suit provides us with choices.
1. In case you happen to leave your swimsuit drying on aforementioned deck chair, forget it’s there when it starts to rain one night, and the rain turns onto a microburst windstorm and tempest, sending your bathing suit, the chair it was on, and the glass patio table flying across the street, it’s good to know you’ve got another suit in reserve.
Yes, 1. happened to me when I was at the beach with my sister and her kids. Seriously, it looked like a beach-item yard sale the next day: chairs and tables and towels and buckets and little shovels were strewn everywhere. I despaired of finding my new blue speedo tank suit. Luckily, my niece Gracie spied it in some bushes about 100 yards away. The glass table from our deck was about 30 yards away. That was some microburst.
Dear readers, I hope you will benefit from hard lessons learned by me: bring an extra swimsuit!
Do any of you have harrowing or ridiculous stories about swimsuit emergencies or mishaps on vacation? Share them in the comments and I promise to be extremely sympathetic.