Ocean Blues Side-Cutout Bikini Bottom

Laps in the morning and sand in the afternoon ask different things of a bikini bottom, and this cut answers both: a full-coverage seat at the back, a strappy cut-out at each hip where a plain brief would run solid. The waistband sits at the hip. The fabric has stretch, so the side straps lie flat over the hip bone instead of digging in, and the brief dries fast once you are out of the water.

Measure your hip at its widest point before you pick a letter; the run goes S to 2XL, and with no tie at the side, the letter does the fitting. Rinse it in cold water after a swim and dry it flat. Thirteen colourways sit under one price, so the same bottom goes under most of our tops, plain or printed.

One of 9 on the bikini bottoms rail in the Ocean Blues catalogue. It also answers to bikini bottoms. A size letter describes the garment rather than a body, and the way we keep the figures current is set out on how we update the catalogue.