Retro Bathing Suits for Spring/Summer 2009

With summer just around the corner, there’s no time like the present to scoop up the hottest swimwear trends for 2009. Here’s what you’ll be seeing on the beach and at the pool this year!

The Sexy Strip: a silver trikini (a strip connects the top of the bikini to the bottom) with inlaid stones.

Tarzan’s Girl: a black and silver tight-to-the-skin bikini with a skirt in a sleek, snake-skin texture.

Oh la la, Auguste Herbin: hyper-graphic, geometrical cut-outs that take trikini’s to the next level.

Think Bridget Bardot: more cloth in a bikini, with a gathered-bustier top and teeny, flouncy bottoms, in an extremely feminine dotted pattern—girly, girl!

St. Tropez - 1960: example, the Panos Emporion suit, that offers more coverage (gathered) in a sleek maillot.

No Straps, Please: a bustier top with a cleavage-ring and low-cut bikini bottoms, set in a floral pattern leaving beach-goers oo’ing and ahh’ing.

Picnic Girl: tiny red and white picnic cloth, sewn into an itsy bitsy little bikini with blue ribbons trimmed in; the accessorized dangling plastic cherries scream play, play, play!

Sardinia Cover Up: chic and sophisticated, with quarter length, slightly-belled arms, thigh-high hem, and an empire-waist cut, in rich plum colors.

Elegant Glamor: black one piece with a thick white stripe starting from under the breastbone alllll the way down, topped off with a wide brimmed black hat secured with a white scarf.  Top this baby off with some black Channel glasses and everyone will want to be you.

Coral on the Reefs: sophisticated, vibrant colors, like reds and corals, alone or contrasted with white, in bikinis with scallop-edged tops, and one piece, higher-than-hip cuts.

Jet Set: brown and taupe teeny print, small-gathering at the cleavage, sweet-slim straps in a one piece say beauty-without-trying.

Cape Town: an asymmetrical, plum-brown, second-skin one piece with one chained shoulder strap.

Acid Explosion: a bikini with framed-black colors splashed everywhere.

A Two Way Impossibility, Possible: this is a different cut, without trying to be different - a playful song of yellow. Bikini bottoms that almost look like shorts, but are definitely bikini bottoms; a bikini top that almost looks like a ribbed bustier, but is really a bikini. This little ensemble could easily be a itsy bitsy bikini or a shorts set!

Geometry You Can Love: string bikinis in a neo-geometric prints, and bikinis without strings that have geometric built-in belts, and totally geometric tops.

Beachwear for The Guys: ultra-Hawaiian-floral-on-dark-green shots and pants.

Photos Credits: Journal des Femmes