In 1940 Curtis MacDougall wrote in his book
Hoaxes about a journalistic hoax involving dissolving bathing suits:
Webb Miller in I Found No Peace revealed that the story from the French Riviera of a British millionaire who embarrassed his guests by inducing them to swim in bathing suits which dissolved in salt water was a pure fake. The reporter inventing it was ordered by his managing editor to ship several of the suits to the United States; he complied with an hermetically sealed box containing some finely pulverized breakfast food to create the impression that, despite precautions, the suits had dissolved in the salt air.
But according to the
Austrian Times, a dissolvable bikini has now been invented for real.
The saucy thong swimsuit - sold as the perfect present for dumped boyfriends - looks like a real bikini but disappears completely after just a few seconds in water.
Sellers in Germany bill the Get Naked costume as a chance for men to get their own back after a break-up.
But women's rights campaigner Rosmarie Zapfl stormed: "It is an absolute insult to women that this has been invented."
They're being sold on racheshop.de as the
"water soluble bikini".
Comments
Basting thread is used fo making temporary stiches in order to sew something more complicated. It dissolves completely in water.
Carefully remove the stitches of the suit, and sew back together with the basting thread. One quick hop into the water later, and you've nothing but fabric scraps.
Uhhh..why is my confirmation word "comes"?
So start selling bathing trunks for men made of the same stuff. Sheesh.
And they only sell down to size 34 tops? Darn, that means I can't get one for a certain somebody. 😉
(And any guy who actually can get a real girlfriend will quickly learn that there are simply some things guys don't buy for girls [and if they do, they must accept that at best, the girl will smile, thank you, and then exchange it for what they really want.])
I want one now. I am going on holiday in 3 weeks and this will be the best practical joke ever.