Utterly Unsuitable

The week ahead

Holds lots of dread:

I have to buy a bathing suit.

I’d be a dope

To have much hope

Of finding fit (don’t mention cute).

In fact if my long search is fruitless

I may well have to dive in suitless.

Julia Sneden writes and rhymes about bathing suit shopping: It’s an annual
chore for most people, this business of buying a bathing suit. For me,
it comes around every six months or so. With older women and men doing water aerobics and swimming laps, wouldn’t you think the bathing suit manufacturers would twig to the idea that there’s a huge market out here? We buy suits more often than teenagers do, because we’re harder on them