Here's a thread for the ladies to discuss anything that relates to women and swimming. For example, feel free to discuss how disgustingly ugly fastskins are, how the "curse" can kill a meet, how suits don't fit, how swimming wrecks your hair, how hormones unhinge you, etc.
Did anyone else see the Tara Kirk episode of What Not to Wear on Friday? I felt so bad for her, as they kept emphasizing how she was an Olympic athlete, and how she was training for the Olympics, and how as an Olympic athlete she would need to look stylish.
Clothes-wise, they mainly offered her the same advice Ripple offered me: Go to a tailor already. No way are you going to fit both arms and waist, or both thighs and waist, in off-the-rack clothes. The makeup person gave her the same advice my dermatologist gave me on sunscreen, which is to pick one with a lot of titanium dioxide or micronized zinc oxide in it. If your skin is not naturally pale, you are going to look like Casper in your pool sunscreen, but too bad. The alternative is major goggle lines, and an awful suntan mustache if you are pregnant or on BCPs.
It did bug me how the woman (Stacey) kept emphasizing how TK should want to look "feminine," as if her beautiful, fast body were unfeminine. Her "before" clothes were sort of plain and boring, but they were not nearly as bad as some of the people I have seen on that show in terms of being unflattering.
Did anyone else see the Tara Kirk episode of What Not to Wear on Friday? I felt so bad for her, as they kept emphasizing how she was an Olympic athlete, and how she was training for the Olympics, and how as an Olympic athlete she would need to look stylish.
Clothes-wise, they mainly offered her the same advice Ripple offered me: Go to a tailor already. No way are you going to fit both arms and waist, or both thighs and waist, in off-the-rack clothes. The makeup person gave her the same advice my dermatologist gave me on sunscreen, which is to pick one with a lot of titanium dioxide or micronized zinc oxide in it. If your skin is not naturally pale, you are going to look like Casper in your pool sunscreen, but too bad. The alternative is major goggle lines, and an awful suntan mustache if you are pregnant or on BCPs.
It did bug me how the woman (Stacey) kept emphasizing how TK should want to look "feminine," as if her beautiful, fast body were unfeminine. Her "before" clothes were sort of plain and boring, but they were not nearly as bad as some of the people I have seen on that show in terms of being unflattering.
