

The right fit on the waist will have you feeling seriously confident, even if you don’t have shredded abs.

If you’re going for a snap closure, just make sure it’s not too tight with the ability to unsnap after one beer. However, the best adjustable waistband to sport is one that lays flat to avoid added bulk. If you have a softer midsection, drawstring waistbands and elastic waistbands are your friend. However, if you're gearing up to go surfing, you might want to opt for a longer length boardshort for more coverage. Let’s face it, there’s nothing worse than sitting in your new swim shorts and worrying about a wardrobe malfunction with your man junk. This is the most flattering length a guy can wear-shorter guys won’t feel shorter with most of their leg covered and taller men won’t feel like they’re wearing tap shorts as the newest members of the Rockettes. For most guys, the sweet spot of where your bathing suit should hit is about two inches above your knee.

The look of your swim trunk matters, but the length is the most important. Maybe if all of us moms got out this summer and wore our damn bathing suits, it would help encourage other moms to get out there and do the same.Shorter than a standard swim trunk and longer than itty-bitty briefs, the Ibiza swimsuit is a 2(X)IST best seller for guys who want to show their muscular legs, but without feeling exposed. Your kids will remember the afternoon you spent building the largest sandcastle they have ever seen or those morning swims at the neighborhood pool. The truth is, your kids won’t remember your stretch marks, baby weight or the c-section shelf.

Make memories with your family rather than sit on the sidelines and watch memories being made around you.
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Teach your littles how to do cannonballs. Rather than sit on the side of the pool fully-clothed worrying about the size of your thighs, put on your bathing suit and play Marco Polo in the pool with your kids. Wear the damn bathing suit so you don’t miss out on time with your family. Rock the c-section scars, stretch marks and baby weight as you chase after your wonderful children in the ocean. Moms deserve to wear the damn bathing suit-and feel as beautiful as our children see us. These marks and parts of our body that we deem are unsightly are actually signs of our body’s strength-proof that our body can do anything. I know that as a mom, I am guilty of trying to hide the stretch marks, baby weight and c-section scars and shelf when in all honesty, I should rock them as the battle scars they are. Our bodies are truly amazing in what we can do, not only as moms but as women. And still, throughout her first year of life, my mom bod could provide the sole form of nutrition to that little girl-and even a little extra to donate to babies in need. My body could survive off very little sleep, be drained to the point where I thought I had nothing left-and then give more. And then, after 22 hours of labor and an emergency c-section, it would bounce right back to take care of this small, delicate newborn. I am still in awe that my body could create and carry a beautiful smart little girl in just 42 weeks. What my college self didn’t know were all the amazing things that my body would be capable of doing. But my college self was so naive and thought that her body could take anything (honestly, it had survived way too many nights of tequila shots and Natty Light). In fact, if my college self saw me in a two-piece today, she would probably tell me to rock the one-piece instead. I, too, was once a young twenty-something who arrived at the beach without a care in the world.
