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So many retirees have stated that they want to live near the water. This has made me wonder if they are comfortable wearing a swimsuit. Though my apartment complex has a pool and an exercise room, I use the exercise room, but I would never use the pool. After all, I wouldn't want to scare the kids away!
Those of you who live near the water, do you wear a swimsuit to the beach? Are you comfortable doing so?
I hope this was supposed to be a joke. Why shouldn't kids see what life looks like? If it's not intended as a joke, well, I think that's why kids today are often cruel and bullies. They don't have the input that shows them that people of all sizes and shapes have lives, feelings, and activities, and like to have fun, and it isn't about what one looks like. It's sort of like when people in their teens and 20's are skeeved out about seniors doing the wild thing. It's real, and it's in their future! There's no need to make them think the world is an air-brushed Hollywood movie.
I wear a swimsuit at the beach when I plan to go swimming. Since I don't always swim when I go to the beach, but sometimes just like to relax in a chair and watch the waves, I often wear regular shorts.
I think whether a senior is comfortable in a swimsuit depends not just on how they look, but also on whether there are other seniors around or whether its mostly younger people at the beach. But IMO, most people are more conscious about what they or their partner looks like in a swimsuit than about what anybody else looks like.
55 year old male here and when I go to the beach I wear a leopard thong bikini and black high top telephone lineman boots. I must say I sure turns some heads
I am still scarred for life from being a fat young adult. I am too self conscious even though I know darn well I am the only one who cares. Took me years to figure out the weight thing. I got my first bikini when I was 55! Most of my suits are much more modest. But that one is shiny, silver, and totally inappropriate for my age.
In my own pool at home, I usually swim in the nude. I have 10ft high block fences and no one can see. Or I wear the silver bikini! If I went swimming in public, I would probably go with a suit and a t-shirt.
I wear a swimsuit at the beach and pool because I wear the same thing to the beach now that I did then.
Jams down to the knees, T-shirt and a hat. I'm as fluorescently pale today as I've always been. I would get burned just walking from the parking lot at Jones Beach.
Spending a year in Hawaii did a lot for my beach confidence. The natives enjoy the beach no matter what. But I also agree with age appropriate. The cute little girls can get away with butt floss. Not me. I kinda like a "skirt" type suit.
You betcha. I worked hard to be retired and now I am at he point in life, that I don't give a rats patootie about what others think. I am not super obese by a long shot but I could use a few days in the GYM to lose a few extra LB'S, but I will still use the pool in the meantime.
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