Women's Swimwear Cover-up Stores

Cover Ups : Women's Swimwear Cover-up Stores

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Everything But Water : Everything But Water sends you off in style. A getaway wardrobe built for your look – the season's must-have suit and sundress, a gorgeous cover-up, wow-worthy necklace and sophisticated hat. You're beachside, confident and chic from head to sandy toe.  Check out their swimwear cover-ups.

SwimOutlet.com : SwimOutlet.com is one of the largest online specialty shop for swimming, water polo, fashion, beach, and surf products in the US.

Swim Shells Water Wearable Cover-Ups : What is a Swim Shell™? It's a cover-up with a bonus! it's 100% water-wearable, made of high quality swimwear fabric (82% nylon and 18% spandex). No more swimsuit season dread...just slip a stylish Swim Shell™ over your swimsuit and go ahead...GET WET! The Designer: A water loving Floridian, she was raised with my three fabulous sisters on the Gulf Coast in Fort Myers. Days spent swimming and playing at beaches and swimming pools are highlights of my summer memories. Now the mother of three beautiful fun-loving daughters, they have worked together to design Swim Shells™ for every modern mermaid.  email: funwear@swimshells.com

Venus : From Maxi to Mini, Dress to Skirt and Terry cloth to Sheer they have you covered. Their Cover-Ups selection can take you from the beach into the night in a sexy, and fashionable statement.  Venus prides itself on offering quality swimwear and fashion apparel at affordable prices and offering its customers THE very BEST customer service in the industry. Venus is also proud that it uses US based manufacturing plants to manufacture over 90% of the swimwear it sells.

Cover-up Styles: Dresses, Sarongs, Kaftans and Tunics

Cover-ups divide by how much garment they are. The cover-up dress is the most complete: a real dress in a beach fabric, in lengths from mini to the maxi styles Venus lists, suitable for lunch and shopping straight from the beach. The kaftan is the loose, flowing classic — cool, quick to put on over a wet suit, and forgiving of every figure. Tunics and tunic dresses split the difference, covering to mid-thigh with sleeves that protect shoulders from sun. The sarong is the most adaptable piece in the category: a large wrap cloth tied as a skirt, a halter dress or a shawl, packing to almost nothing. Terry cloth cover-ups double as towels and suit cold-water swimming; sheer and crochet styles are about appearance rather than coverage or warmth and are worn over suits as a styling layer. Everything But Water, listed here, merchandises across all of these styles as part of a coordinated getaway wardrobe.

Fabrics, Including Water-wearable Cover-ups

Most cover-ups are cotton, cotton gauze, rayon or terry: light, breathable and quick enough to dry, but they do get wet and heavy if worn into the water. Swim Shells, described in its listing, takes the opposite approach — its cover-ups are cut from high-quality swimwear fabric, 82 percent nylon and 18 percent spandex, so the garment is fully water-wearable: it can be worn swimming, dries at swimwear speed, and keeps its shape wet. That construction suits swimmers who want coverage in the water itself, for sun protection, modesty or warmth, rather than only at the water's edge. Whichever fabric, check the care label: crochet and embellished cover-ups often need hand washing, metallic threads dislike chlorine, and white cotton gauze yellows if stored damp. A cover-up that survives being stuffed wet into a beach bag and washed weekly is worth more than a delicate one worn twice.

Choosing a Cover-up

Match the cover-up to where you will actually wear it. For resort and cruise wear, a cover-up dress or kaftan in a fabric that does not crease is the versatile choice, and the resort wear stores linked from this section carry coordinated ranges. For family beaches and public pools, a tunic or terry style gives quick, complete coverage. For sun protection, look for long sleeves, a higher neckline and fabrics rated with a UPF factor rather than relying on thin white cotton, which transmits more UV than most wearers expect, especially when wet. Size cover-ups generously — they go on over a wet swimsuit, often in a changing area, so easy pull-on shapes beat fitted ones — and choose dark or patterned fabrics if the cover-up will regularly go on over a dripping suit, since watermarks show least on them. The stores in this directory between them cover every one of those use cases.