Woman in a green belted swimsuit and a natural linen kimono seated on a woven lounger above a desert pool

Swim and resort · Spring · Summer

Green belted swimsuit with a natural linen kimono

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A belt on a swimsuit. I stand by it. A green round-neck swimsuit with panel seams, a wide black belt with a covered buckle, and a short natural linen kimono. The belt is the only black I packed. I miss the rest. Wear it for an afternoon by the pool.

A clear green one-piece cinched with a wide black belt, under a short kimono in undyed linen. Swimwear with a waist.

A one-piece in clear green, cut with a round neck and long vertical seams that run the full length of the front like the panels of a fitted bodice. The waist is taken in by a wide black belt with a covered rectangular buckle, the only hard line on it. Over the shoulders sits a short kimono in undyed linen: wide elbow sleeves, open front, a weave coarse enough to see.

The belt is what moves it from swimwear to clothing; without it, it is just a swimsuit, which is also fine. It suits the long middle of a summer day by a desert pool, when the choice is between shade and more shade. Flat sandals somewhere under the lounger, sunglasses in the hand because the light is doing something worth seeing for a minute.

I do not do well in heat. I do very well next to water.