French chillies?
I guess not! On May 19, online shopping platform Twenga launched a comparative study on the wearing of swimsuits (a crucial topic at this time of year, don’t you agree?). The target: French girls VS English girls…
On the basis of this information, let’s stop for two minutes and think seriously… The English? We’re talking about those style warriors who don’t hesitate to proudly wear the improbable “t-shirt/legging without skirt” duo, even in the middle of March? Those lucky ladies from the same homeland as a certain Kate Moss? Those who have the miles of Oxford Street to get drunk in? Top Shop, Miss Selfridge’s, Primark?!?(Okay, maybe Primark isn’t the best example, but still, can you imagine how many swimsuits Primark sells per minute?!?)
We’re immediately defeatist and think: we’re toast.
Well, actually, no.
The study revealed the top three favorite swimsuits of French beachgoers, which are (tada, drum roll):
1: the red bikini (ah heum, sexy)
2: the black trikini (the faux-jetons one-piece swimsuit that tries to pass itself off as a bikini).
3: the black tankini (the “tankini”, what is that? can it be eaten???).
Def. “tankini”: Common noun. Gender: masc. Plur. : tankinis.
/tɑ̃.ki.ni/
(Clothing) Swimsuit made up of briefs and a tank top.
Here’s something to enlighten my/our fashionably uneducated lantern(s) (thanks Wikipedia). The tankini would therefore be (the providential) alternative to the two-piece swimsuit for the (un)lucky owners of a natural little buoy who are fed up with the traditional “one-piece granny”.
The trend on the pretty French coasts (I’m talking about the seaside) is to go bare, while on the other side of the Channel, swimmers are hiding behind:
– maillots-jupes (!)
– beach dresses (! bis)
– monokinis (!?)
Well then, what’s up, girls?
Being good sports, we lucky girls born on the right side of the sea (in this case, with nothing to do with any feeling of jealousy born of the advantages of London fashionistas) will honestly admit that, if the survey was carried out in Cannes at the height of the festival, it doesn’t count.
We’ll simply come to the following (collective) conclusion: it doesn’t matter what swimsuit you wear, as long as you get drunk (in this case, drunk: a flawless tan with no marks in any direction). And above all: feel good in it. CQFD.
A few words about Twenga:
“Twenga is the open shopping platform offering the widest choice on the web. Thanks to its proprietary technology, Twenga automatically brings together on its
sites all the merchants, all the products and all the lowest prices on the web.
Founded in 2006 by Bastien Duclaux and Cédric Anès, Twenga is a Paris-based company. Its 15 sites in France [and around the world] currently feature over 370 million offers from more than 180,000 online stores.
Twenga’s websites received 45 million visits in November 2010. That same year, Twenga received the Red Herring 100 Global Award, the Young Technology Leader Award, and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the
Entreprise d’Avenir category.
Website: www.twenga.fr /
Déborah Bannwarth
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