Summer Mae Tankini Review: A Blouson Tank, Board Shorts, and Palms

We already did a CUPSHE striped one-piece — that is a V and ruching. Summer Mae sells the other swim silhouette: a two-piece tankini with a loose olive tank, a racerback, palm-print dolphin shorts with pockets. Forty-three dollars. Fifty-three hundred reviews. A 4.3. The listing says blouson and tummy control. Believe a longer tank that hangs. It is not a cincher. It is not a bikini.

If you wanted a high-cut one-piece, stay with CUPSHE. If you wanted coverage that looks like a matching lounge set you could also swim in, stay. Chlorine will still bleach a palm tree.

The tank is the control. The shorts are the outfit.

A blouson is a hem that does not cling. The front panel is solid olive; the sides pick up the print. Scoop neck, wide-enough straps, a racerback in the rear still. It covers a midsection the way a shirt covers a midsection: by being longer, not tighter. High-waist shorts with a curved hem and a pocket you can actually put a hand in. That is the modest swim bet. It is also why some shoppers thought they ordered pajamas. Read “tankini.” Then look at the shorts. There is no string bottom in the pack.

Size it as swim: bust and hip, then torso so the tank does not become a crop when you lift your arms. The Size Guide is a start. Between, the hip on the shorts. A tank that is costume will float; shorts that are costume will ride.

Tummy control is a longer tank. The palms are the shorts.

Water, wash, the 4.3

Rinse salt and chlorine. Hang. Heat welds print into a different olive. Pockets in swim shorts collect sand and opinions. The 4.3 is people who wanted coverage and got a matching set, plus people who wanted a bikini tankini and wrote about shorts. Those are different listings in their heads.

Who it's for

A tankini with shorts, a palm print, a tank that hangs on purpose. Not a one-piece, not a string bikini, not a $43 miracle waist. Size the hip, rinse the palms, and do not expect a cincher.