The Designer Swimsuit That No One Else Will Have

People make New Year's resolutions every year and many of these resolutions involve getting in shape and by spring comes around this has transformed into wanting to look good in a swimsuit. For 2010 Betsey Johnson has made things easier or maybe more difficult by revealing their new designer bikinis for 2010. What they have for consumers is hit or miss for the most part.

What Is Nice

The first entry features the ever popular leopard print pattern. This is another bikini but that is where the similarities end. The Leopard -Print Wrap Around bikini from their swimwear line actually looks much like a halter top bikini. The top starts in the back but wraps around the front and connects at the top in back of the neck. The effect is both sexy and cute and promises much fun at the beach this summer.

The Weird

Sometimes being a little bizarre can be appealing, but that cannot be said for the Red Carter Slashed One-Piece swimsuit. It is certainly intriguing and it is a head turner. The Slashed began its life as a standard one piece swimsuit. It features one arm strap but that is nothing out of the ordinary. What is is the series of "slashes" or "rips" in the fabric. They designers may have been going for something naughty, but the end result was something that looks like a wild carnivore got a hold of. It makes you want to ask "Did she survive?" not "Where can I get one of those??"; not a good thing in the fashion industry.

Better On The Drawing Board?

A quick look at all the swimwear that Betsey Johnson is offering this summer shows that many intriguing ideas. This season they are offering, in the category of Little Black Swimsuits, the topless bikini. They put in the category of Little Black Swimsuit, but it should be placed in "what were they smoking". It may look like a joke but apparently Betsey Johnson is serious. But what were they thinking People have been going topless for decades without having to buy a specially designed swimsuit for the occasion. If the design was cute, they may have gotten away with it, however it looks like they were inspired by something else. The bottom to this looks normal enough except it has a single strip of fabric that stars out wide at the bottom and tapers down to a cords that tie around the neck. The overall effect is that the wearer is getting a particularly bad front wedgie. Amusingly enough, the topless bikini does feature a removable bandeau top, meaning that in the end it was not so topless after all.

This does not seem at all bad, as the Leopard -print Wrap bikini worked. In fact the majority of Betsey Johnsons women's swimwear offerings this year are a wonderful and cute, such as the Leopard Print Gold Ring Bandeau Top bikini swimwear featuring delightful lower rise bottom. It is simple and very cute. The Sequin Sliding Triangle Top featuring a choice of beige or black square sequins is another hit. The problems that this year the misses are dramatic and stand out.