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Four pieces on cups, chlorine, the plus run and which cut for which water.
Bust, underbust and hip, taken once with a tape, and which of the three decides each piece. What the regular run and the plus run are cut for, what a tie, a drawstring or a slider can take up, and what to do when the numbers land in two letters.
Forty lengths of a chlorinated pool, a day on hot sand, an aqua class with the arms overhead, a water park with children, a kayak seat. Each asks something different of a swimsuit, and the three cuts answer differently. Which piece we would reach for first, and why.
What a UPF 50+ rating measures and what it leaves out, why a wet or stretched fabric lets more through, what chlorine and salt do to a nylon and spandex blend, what the care label sewn into a US garment has to say by law, and the wash we recommend, step by step.
The words on the tag promise a result; the cut can only do a job. What ruching, shirring, a double lining, a blouson body and a high waistband each do to the fabric, which Ocean Blues pieces use which, and how to tell from the description whether a piece has the construction the tag implies.
Every Ocean Blues size, every colourway
Every size, colourway and set in the Ocean Blues catalogue sits behind this button, with the price from our last update against each one.