Also confusing was the “Slimming” style offerings for modest swim wear. If the whole point is to make the female form less able to incite woodiness in the male on-looker, then wouldn’t relative rotundity (assuming of course, adherence to the skinny=HAWT paradigm) be preferable? Maybe the wearers of such suits DON’T adhere said paradigm?

Am I missing something?

Both wear similar clothing and cover their hair - but the Jewish men have those underwear tassles hanging out.

We’re going to blame the patriarchy for creating an atmosphere that forces women to choose clothing based on the number of unwanted boners it is likely to inflame. This swimwear is no different from hijab.

As far as the photo: the Holga, which is a $20 toy film camera with a plastic lens, invented those wacky colors all on its own. Don’t ask me how. Focusing with that thing is also a total crapshoot, and the film element adds another hilarious variable. Which crapshootiness is, for me, the whole point of the Holga.

I’m no photographer. I usually shoot with a Canon 10D–which is a fancy digital SLR–through a $1500 wide angle zoom lens. This excellent equipment is the only reason my “normal” pictures look exactly like the things I point the camera at. The downside is that my regular pictures are too literal. But I’m not clever enough to figure out how to make the Canon behave in a moody way. Hence my fascination for the Holga. These are just a few of the trials that face the modern artiste.

Then I looked at the phone number. Bang on! Aurora, Oregon is home to both a Russian Jewish Old Believer community (think Hasidic X Green Acres) and a Mennonnite community. Mennonites are akin to Amish, but they drive cars and tractors and happily sew traditional stuff out of space-age fabrics.

What struck me most about the site: beautiful asthetics and nice design. Tis a gift to be simple …

And after all, we all choose clothing that covers up the body parts we don’t care to show. I mean, I won’t wear a Brazilian thong. Are the Brazilians (or whoever wears those things) entitled to ridicule me for over-modesty?

I imagine the primary market for these swimsuits is Amish and Mennonite families that go on vacations to Florida and other seaside destinations (yes, in fact, they do).

the holga may be better suited to brooding landscape shots… or else, back up about 12-18 inches next time, because the bottom of whatever was in the middle of the table came out pretty well.

Whoa! Did you get a load of those swimsuits Sharoni linked to? You could drown in those things!