Bikini Bottoms

What Bikini Bottoms Are

Bikini bottoms are the swim brief that pairs with a bikini top — the lower half of the two-piece. The category spans a wide style ladder: hipster sits mid-rise with a full seat, cheeky opens the leg line, Brazilian narrows the rear panel, thong reduces it to a strip, and full coverage closes the seat entirely. Cut, rise and rear panel decide the style.

This collection holds 14 styles from about $17 under the general bikini bottoms label. The honest note: this pool is a loose catch-all — and it has picked up non-swim items — so the store’s style-specific collections are the cleaner way to shop each cut.

The Bottom Style Ladder

• Hipster: mid-rise, full seat
• Cheeky: higher leg, partial seat
• Brazilian: narrower rear panel
• Thong: strip rear
• Full coverage: seat fully covered

The ladder sorts by rear coverage. Hipster is the full-seat start; cheeky opens the leg; Brazilian narrows the panel; thong cuts it to a strip; full coverage closes it. Rise — low, mid or high — adds a second axis. Each rung is covered in depth by the store’s own collections: cheeky, thong and full coverage each have dedicated pages.

Choosing a Bottom

The choice is cut, not body type — no style suits only one shape, and no claims are made here about how a cut reads on a body. What is verifiable: leg cut, rear panel and rise decide how much the bottom covers and how it moves.

For choosing, decide the coverage rung first — the amount of seat covered — then the rise. That two-step narrows the ladder quickly, and the store’s style pages carry each rung in depth.

What This Pool Carries

The 14 styles under this general label are a loose mix: string thong and tie-side Brazilian bottoms sit in the range, alongside items the broad bottom label pulled in that are not swim bottoms at all.

Because the pool is this loose, the honest advice is to shop the style collections — string, cheeky, thong and the rest — where each cut is the point of the page.

Mixing and Caring

Bottoms mix freely with the store’s tops — the two-piece is sized separately, so any bottom pairs with any top in your size. That is the flexibility of shopping the bottom on its own.

Care follows the fabric: rinse after salt or chlorine, wash gentle, dry flat. Elastic edges keep their shape with standard swim care.