Hello, my name is Anna and I’m a bikini-holic. What’s more, I am far from the only fiftysomething I know who is. My friends and family of similar vintage are bikini wearers pretty much to a woman. And we have got decades in us yet — Helen Mirren is still slaying in one at 78.
One of the biggest fashion fallacies out there is that bikinis are for the young; that they are a phenomenon you age out of. And I am not saying this as some kind of age-agnostic statement of bravado, nor because I am not subject to all the usual droops and disappointments that come as the decades pass.
Bikinis are just easier. Easier to buy. Easier to wear. Or the right