The Miss Behaved Swimwear

Dear Miss Behaved:
Many sincere sales people have advised me that the right swimsuit size for me is a size larger than my dress size. I worked very hard to be the dress size I am, it’s depressing to have to jump up a size in the swimsuit department and it’s not even my fault. In fact, I don’t like buying swimsuits for that reason. Doesn’t this sound as if the swimsuit manufacturers are being Miss Behaved?

Signed,
Wrong parts being Squeezed Together

Dear Squeezed:
No, the swimsuit manufacturers are just being short sighted, if not short waisted. If the swimsuit industry were interested in actually selling more than one swimsuit per woman, per painful season, swimsuits would be manufactured to be two sizes larger than your dress size. In other words, if a woman wears a size 12 dress, then she would require a swimsuit in a size 8. Most Miss Behaved shoppers would buy many suits of that size and wear them inside out to show off the label.

With this new system in place, women would look forward to purchasing swimsuits since no matter what they acquired during the holidays and a long cozy winter with big helpings of everything, the swim suit size would have only increased by one size and she is still only a 10 which is far less than the size 14 dress she had to purchase for the office party. She would buy three size 10 swimsuits just to prove she hadn’t gained too much weight.

Miss Behaved pundits are surprised that no one in the swimsuit industry has conducted any marketing surveys or studies to discover this large point. What would it take to make this prediction? "In the future I see larger size swimsuits being sold to the fifty percent of the population that is overweight according to one chart or another."

Certainly there should be at least one swimsuit company who could figure this out, create the suits and make a killing. Unless there is a larger Miss Behaved conspiracy having to do with the supply of spandex and misogyny.