The BETTY DIAMOND swimsuits are not made from lycra. Our 2 way stretch polyester will not perish in the way that those little elastin fibres do in other swimsuit fabrics – you know how garments give after a bit of wear and go white at all the most stretched and stressed places. We want our […]
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Betty swimwear as anytimewear
Now that summer is nearly gone there are still lots of ways to keep your BETTY DIAMOND one piece swimsuit active in your wardrobe all year round. You can wear it with a full midi skirt for a great 50’s look and it looks fabulous under jeans with a jacket of your choice. As you […]
Buying swimwear online
For many women the thought of buying swimwear online is crazy – how can you know what size, how it’s going to look on your body, what’s the fabric like and so on. But I don’t think it’s any different to buying shoes say, or pants or a dress online, the big advantage to buying […]
A retro swimsuit
Too Cold for Swimsuits
Who could be thinking of lounging around in a one piece swimsuit on a day like today? Here in Sydney it’s 18 and raining. This outfit on the front of 1952 French women’s magazine Modes & Travaux is more like it… This is back in the time (we call vintage) when the perfect body was […]
Resort Wear
Resort Wear can be a beach jacket, a beach robe, a sarong, a skirt,shorts, a kaftan, a muu muu, loose pants – anything that covers you up. Most women have a quirk about some part of their body – hips too big, thighs a bit wobbly – in our Resort Wear range BETTY DIAMOND has […]
The Return Of The One Piece Swimsuit
When bikinis got smaller and smaller in the ’70’s it was a celebration of our freedom, finally women were loosed from the restrictions of false modesty and old style decorum. Wonderful at the time an it means because we have had the full spectrum of fashion choices in swimwear – from neck to knees and […]
Plus sized swimwear
It’s that time of year again when we have to face the difference between the pictures of models wearing gorgeous swimsuits and our own bodies in those swimsuits. The fact that most of us are not size 6 or even size 8 and that life is not a fashion shoot and that photoshop only operates […]
A lovely one piece swimsuit image
This is the invitation to the current show ‘On The Beach’ at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum in Sydney New South Wales. It’s a detail from a painting by Fred Leist (1878-1945) called The bathing pool – Cremorne. The light and deep shadow is so evocative of Australian summer to me and those clever elegant […]
Brrr
Too cold in Australia to be thinking about swimsuits, but I’m going to Bali to bask by the pool in my Betty Diamond swimsuit.