Bras are a bugger, but swimsuits are THE PITS!
There you are, ready and willing to spend £40-£60 on a cozzy, coz you swim 3-4 times a week, and you really want a nice comfy 34F cozzy, that will give you a bit of lift and comfort on the way in and out of the pool, will cover you well and allow you to swim without stopping to tug it back into place, and what do you find? The manufacturers seem to believe that anyone who is a 32F is a 19YO bimbo with no arse and plastic balloons up her front! So all you can find are posing-in bikinis with 3 triangles attached by string, or swimsuits that have the legs cut so high you want a Brazilian wax job just to stay decent! Well sorry - my bum is 49 and reasonably well lived in. I want it COVERED! AND I want to be able to get in and out of the cozzy without giving myself a hernia trying to get said bum through a 6" hole in the top of a 'racer back' style that would fit if I could only get the flaming thing ON!
And what about those sets with matching knickers and bras? Most of the really nice bras that fit ONLY have bum-floss knickers to match! GRR! ARGH! At least I got a decent sized pair to go with my nice brown Fantasy bra... And the flesh-toned one I bought from M&S had matching BUM COVERING knickers in two styles: decent and All The Way Up To Yer Waist. But they only did the ATWUTYW style in bigger sizes, and I needed a UK 12-14! So I ended up with decent hipsters. Well, it was in the sale, so I can forgive them.
One day I really will get into making them all myself, but not until I stop shrinking. I still have a stone to lose (14 lbs), and with all the interruptions from customers and Life in general, I'd get it finished just in time for it to drop off me!