{"id":9426,"date":"2013-08-14T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2013-08-13T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T03:18:08","slug":"the-economics-of-womens-swimsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-womens-swimsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Women\u2019s Swimsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/081313_1930_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite being made of so little women&#8217;s swimsuits cost so much. Why? Megan Wiegand answered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The small size of swimsuits makes them more difficult to work with. The woman is wearing less and so they&#8217;re more critical of their bodies. The swimsuit must do a perfect job of fitting the wearer.<\/li>\n<li>A swimsuit will ideally compress some places while revealing others.<\/li>\n<li>It can&#8217;t ride up or come undone when somebody dives, swims, or runs.<\/li>\n<li>It has to be able to withstand a variety of conditions including water, salt, chlorine, sun, and sand.<\/li>\n<li>Swimsuits are stretchy and stretchy fabrics are more expensive than standard ones.<\/li>\n<li>They stay on store shelves for a brief time and so manufacturers have less flexibility in terms of when they&#8217;re produced. This tight timetable means fewer manufacturer discounts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how the rise of ecommerce is changing things, how you can find cheaper swimsuits, what experts think, the opportunity in plus-size swimwear, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/fashion\/2013\/08\/why_is_swimwear_so_expensive_manufacturing_seasonality_and_design.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/fashion\/2013\/08\/why_is_swimwear_so_expensive_manufacturing_seasonality_and_design.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being made of so little women&#8217;s swimsuits cost so much. Why? Megan Wiegand answered: The small size of swimsuits makes them more difficult to work with. The woman is wearing less and so they&#8217;re more critical of their bodies. The swimsuit must do a perfect job of fitting the wearer. A swimsuit will ideally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/081313_1930_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9441,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/9441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}