The sun is finally here, summer is approaching and it’s time to start shopping for our holiday wardrobe. But hold on to your purses for a hot second – have you ever considered buying an item that merges your bikini and towel?
Let us introduce the ‘towelkini’ – soon to be responsible for bad tan lines, sandy bums and general confusion across the beaches of the world – the new product combines your swimsuit with your towel.
And no, we’re not quite sure how that works either.
The ‘towelkini’ – the work of New York designer Aria McManus – is one size fits all, made from 100% cotton and comes in either hot pink or ‘athletic’ gold so you can feel like a real sports hero when you’re lying motionless on the sand.
The creation has a hole for your head and for your legs and then drapes over the rest of your body in a weirdly confusing manner.
We’re not sure why you would want your body to be 90% covered when you’re already really hot and flustered.
And it doesn’t form the primary function of a beach towel in stopping the sand from burning your back and gathering in your bikini crotch or trunks.
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So what is the point of the towelkini? Well we’re not quite sure we have an answer for you there.
But if any of you do find a way that it might be useful, you’ve got to shell out $199 for the pleasure.