Woman in a black belted round-neck swimsuit seated on the stone edge of a desert pool, holding a folded fan

Swim and resort · Spring · Summer

Black belted round-neck swimsuit with a linen robe

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A plain black swimsuit is a decision, not a default. Round neck, cut-away armholes, and a wide belt with a covered buckle. A natural linen robe, taken off. The folding fan is medical. Heat and I are not on speaking terms. Sit on the edge. Stay dry.

A plain black round-neck swimsuit made sharp by a wide self-fabric belt with a covered buckle, with a natural linen robe.

A black swimsuit in its plainest form: a round neck cut high on the collarbone, cut-away armholes, a high leg and nothing else added. The one decision is the belt, wide and in the same matte fabric, with a covered rectangular buckle at the front. A natural linen robe waits folded on the pool ledge, with a folding fan in dark wood.

It needs very little. The belt gives the waist a line that a plain swimsuit does not have on its own, and black with raw linen is a combination that has never asked for a third colour. This is for high summer at a pool cut into the rock, in the late afternoon, sitting on the edge.

The fan is not a prop. I do not handle heat well and I refuse to look as if I do not.