openwaterfly

[openwaterfly]

Swimsuits that fit -- we need your measurements!

Do you, your swim friends, team, etc., need a swim suit that actually fits? I'm hoping to start prototyping some new ideas for swim suits for all shapes and bodies, and would like to use real data from real people to help me improve the suits available in the industry. I'm estimating this will take 10-15 minutes to fill out, as I specifically would LOVE your body measurements, and you'll need a tape measure. Although I can't currently offer compensation, I hope you'll be willing to help the industry improve and provide your info so I can design some swim suits that MAKE SENSE and FIT. Thank you for your time and effort in this!

https://forms.gle/RnwvCX7XnD7vmMzs9

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It is not the sea that calls us back. What calls us is stronger and more inexorable than any current. I long for the sea, yes… but more, I long for the leaving. I am restless, I am ready, and the leaving whispers to me at night. It says that I will breathe easier when the air is full of fog and seagulls, that I will breathe easier when I am at the start of a story, rather than at the end.

Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden (via hither-and-thithergirl)

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Lynne Cox is an accomplished American open water swimmer. Twice, she held the record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel. Cox was the first woman to swim the Cook Strait and the first to swim the Straits of Magellan and around the Cape of Good Hope. Cox swam the Bering Strait from American soil to Soviet soil in 1987, at the height of the Cold War.