By Stephen Weir
Carnival recollections dwindle into nothing within the rear-view mirror. The feathered costumes, the high-heeled footwear, and even the pocket flag doo-rags have been relegated to the storage room. If you’re planning to go South as soon as the snow flies, due to a web-based market, there is no such thing as a want to fret about not with the ability to wiggle your flag on the seaside!
Simply in time to winter within the Caribbean, a preferred on-line market has simply listed on its web site nearly 800 completely different males’s and ladies’s bathing fits that incorporate particular person island flags and coats of arms within the product. Their retailers’ new Caribbean Swimwear bikinis and one-piece fits are low-cost, easy, and attractive—properly, possibly not as attractive as what we noticed this August 4th happening the street. Whether or not male or feminine, assume ‘Ooh la las’ and never wolf whistles as you wade into the calm blue Caribbean Sea. And poolside, anticipate quick, possibly even over-attentive service from the hardworking younger servers.
This on-line market describes itself as “a group of patrons and sellers from all over the world, together with 378,000 energetic sellers primarily based in Canada.” It presents clothes, swimsuits, equipment, jewellery, personalised presents, and classic items, out there from native Canadian outlets in addition to sellers all over the world (however pay attention to import prices and delivery prices).
By way of the Caribbean swimwear outfits and seaside towels at present out there, there are a number of completely different suppliers, which signifies that the fabric and the associated fee differ from outfit to outfit. Take, as an illustration, the Haiti bikini adorned by the nation’s coat of arms strategically positioned over the breasts
and crotch. It’s made with 82% Polyester, 18% Spandex materials. By no means thoughts that the mannequin appears attractive—the Haitian outfit will match most physique sizes and prices lower than $50.00.
Jamaican emblem’d swimsuits have been round for years, however there are at all times new designs approaching stream, just like the inexperienced, yellow, and black diamond-shaped one-piece, which is proving to be in style! It sells for lower than $40.
The Trinidad colours are in all places too, together with on seaside yoga leggings constructed from 90% Nylon, 10% Spandex. The leggings are mushy, stretchy, light-weight, and quick-drying material. Phrase of warning from one client: you may see your underwear by means of the tight-fit outfit. $24.
It seems that most islands have their very own design, though we didn’t discover any outfits promoting the Cayman Islands or Montserrat.
There are a selection of designs for males, though many fall into the class of ‘naked as you dare.’ One Caribbean-styled crocheted go well with has so little material it sells for simply $7.2. It harkens again to the outdated track of the early sixties “She (and he) wore an itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini.”
