If you’re a person with a body, you’ve probably had a bad time shopping for bathing suits at least once in your life. When you’re able to find a bathing suit at a reasonable price, it’s ...

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SAO PAULO, Brazil — The night before New Year’s Eve in Rio de Janeiro, thousands of revelers clad in their bathing suits crowded onto the Ipanema beach to have some seaside drinks. It was one ...

Brazil is famous for a lot of things—like amazing (and totally hot) soccer players, gorgeous beaches, delicious food, stunning supermodels, fantastical modernist architecture, and the country's ...

The first lesson of shopping for swimsuits, Brazilian-style: Give up your preference for neutrals and basic black. Here, everything is colorful, including the swimwear (and boy, is it!).

Jewellery and cangas are for men, too. Don't think men can avoid revealing swimwear, either. Only tourists wear board shorts. Local men wear sungas, Brazil's tight, short, retro-style cossies.

Those Paulistanos who could flee toward the beaches, causing traffic jams of up to 14 kilometers (8.6 miles), and those who stayed put on bathing suits and filled municipal swimming pools and parks.

The Girl From Ipanema has put on a few pounds, and Brazil has found its symbolic itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny bikinis just do not suffice anymore. Sunday, 27 October 2024 ePaper ...