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Wow, those are amazing!

My most embarrasing (and funny in retrospect!) swimwear story was at Phoenix festival in the 1990s. I was wearing a string bikini with denim shorts as it was very hot and was sat in the comedy tent, with several thousand other people in the middle of the afternoon.

I felt something tickle my back, reached round, felt something there and pulled. It was a piece of thread and the entire of the underbust band of my bikini top almost instantly unravelled, one of the "triangle" cups detached and the whole lot fell down and left me sitting topless in the middle of the crowd.

I'm still embarrassed now and it was 13 years ago!

i don't have an embarrassing swimsuit story, either that or i have mentally blocked them out?!! haha!
i love the polkadot one!

Penny - it doesn't have to be embarrassing! It can just be funny, or a fond memory.

These swimsuits are so adorable, they are worth revealing embarrassing swimsuit stories!

A few years ago, we were hanging on the beach with my family, eating Doritos and sunning. Everything seemed fine until my brother decided to feed some to the sagulls.
We saw they were crowding around us... let me tell you: sharing a Doritos bag is not a good idea on the beach... we had to put them away and try to shoo the birds off, but as they were flying above one of them pooped and guess where it went? Right inside my cousin's bikini top!
We all started laughing, of course, and she ran in circles not knowing what to do until she sprinted to the ocean to wash off. Since then, we've banned chips at the beach.

Since I have always been a curvy girl, I ALWAYS wear a one-piece swimsuit. However, once when I was in high school I went on tour to Disneyworld (I was in a performing group) and had a MASSIVE crush on one of the boys in the group. The group went shopping when we were there and he made a comment that he'd like to see me in a bikini, so I bought (of course!). While laying out on the beach (wow- I guess we didn't do much performing) I fell asleep and ended up with 2nd degree burns on my middle back because I forgot to put sunscreen there. Needless to say, nothing happened between said boy and I as my back was less than appealing... sigh.

Not embarrassing, really, just an ugly duckling sort of tale.

Mine had to be back in the day (and I'm old) that I was constantly out at the lake when I was a teenager and wore the boy shorts and sports bra top covered over with a t-shirt to my knees. When I was a Jr. in HS, I had uh, outgrew the usefulness of he sports tops (I went from a B cup to a D cup in like 3 weeks and needed a swimsuit to go), had grown curves and went from being sort of ugly and awkward to more comfortable with my appearance and got the bikini.

Since I ALSO had mostly guy friends who did not realize I was a girl until that moment, when we got there, and we were all getting ready to go into the water, I pulled off my shorts, pulled off my t-shirt and had a gaggle of teenage boys staring at me (thank GOD I had the body to pull this off!)and had grown more into my looks. One of them said with one of those weird 17 year old moments of awe "My god, you're beautiful." It was the first time anyone had ever told me that, and he still thinks it to this day.

After that they all quit treating me like one of the boys, and I never wore the bikini again, my body stabilized and I went to the more flattering one piece.

Oh my gosh, cute bathing suits! And great stories guys! I think the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to me in a bathing suit is last summer when I got the bottom part of my bikini stuck on this vent-thing at the bottom of my parents hot tub, and I could not get it out... very embarrassing! AND it ruined my bikini bottom, so I could definitely use a new bathing suit!

My senior year of high school, I had to take the swim test to graduate. At the end of the year, everyone rushes to complete the requirement, so naturally when I did the laps portion of the swim test, a good portion of the people in my class were waiting for their turn by the side of the pool. After I surged triumphantly out of the water in front of the very cute swim instructor, I felt an extra-special breeze in my chest region, and I looked down to see my left boob cheerily popping out of my pink bikini top. Everyone in my class got a free show.

The worst part was that in my rush to run out of the pool in abject humiliation, I forgot to sign the form verifying that I had completed the swim test. I had to return the next day, and the instructor didn't recognize me! I then silently pointed to my boob, and he said, "Ohhh... you were that one."

My most embarassing is an ocean experience. In a 2 piece suit, and the waves off the Atlantic Ocean were strong. We were wave surfing and I got hit hard from behind. Off popped the top. Had to get help to chase it to put it back on.

This isn't a story about something that happened to me, but I witnessed it, and it was definitely a funny be-there moment!

So, I was shopping for a swimsuit, but didn't find any that appealed to me (unfortunately). Instead, I found a cute top and went into the dressing room to try it. While I was waiting for one of the units to empty, I heard a very masculine voice yell/scream: "AHHHHH!" One of the doors swung open, and this guy hopped out of the unit with a mortified look on his face, wearing swim trunks and the top half of a ladies' bikini. This girl who was sitting on the couch (girlfriend, I'm assuming)stands up, mystified and asks, "baby, WHAT are you WEARING?!"

It turned out that the guy had just been fooling around when a silverfish (bug) scurried across the floor, and he apparently doesn't like bugs. But it made for a good laugh, and this one elderly lady had the most priceless look on her face afterward. :)

Thank you and Popina for this great opportunity!

If you're open for international entries, I'll try my luck :-) I don't have a story to tell either. I don't get to wear swimsuits quite often, as we only have about 3 months of warm weather (at least warm enough for me to think about going to the beach)

My most embarrassing bathing suit moment would be when a girlfriend and I went to a local water park when we were in high school. I was wearing a brand new red bikini, and all these guys kept talking to us and following us around. I thought "Wow, I must really look hot today!" Unbeknownst to me and my what my girlfriend failed to mention to me is that the top of my bikini had become totally transparent when it was wet!!! No wonder all the guys kept talking to me. I found this out later when we went to the ladies room. Now not only was my bathing suit red, but so was my face. Thank-goodness they had a mirror. I ran and put a t-shirt on over my bathing suit for the rest of the day. Now I am older and wiser and make sure my bathing suits have a lining in them.

Well growing up the Gulf Coast, I've had many wave assisted skinny dipping situations, however this one stands (by far) the most embarrassing:

I was at the beach one day when a huge tropical storm swell blew in. Of course I couldn't surf well, but there were at least 30 surfers in the water (waves were overhead, mind you) so being the ever-feministic girl that I am, in jumps my puny little behind, trying to be tough stuff and surf with the guys.

Well no one mentioned that most guys don't appreciate girls who try to surf, unless they happen to be way better than them, so everyone was already irritated that I was in their way.

To make matters worse, once I realized it was WAY too big for me to be out there, I tried to paddle in, got caught inside a disasterous wave and dumped on three times before I was able to surface for air.

Seeing as how I was basically about to drown, several of the guys paddled over to fish me out and take me in. Coincidentally enough, my bikini top had somehow managed to get caught on the nose of the board whilst I was going through the washing machine below, and was flung at least 20 feet in the air and was washing up on the beach when help arrived.

I sucked it up, covered my little boobies as best I could and haven't tried to surf since, lol!

My boyfriend and I are going to Costa Rica in two days and I will most definitely remember to wear a rash guard this time around! :*)

Ahh, embarrassing swim suit memories... Well...

I lost a bet and ended up having to wear a chain mail bikini. I found out two things that day:

1. Chain mail snags skin AND hair.
2. It burns worse than sunburn when you stay outside too long.

Yep, I was in college and stupid. But, I have great stories to embarrass my kids and entertain grandkids with someday.