In yet another case of swimwear not being designed to actually swim in, a woman was left stained orange after squirting some body spray while wearing a bikini.
Harriet Wright, 20, bought a £40 La Vida Loca orange bikini from OhPolly to wear on holiday in Ibiza.
She bought the set from the ‘swimwear’ section of the site but kept out of the pool.
But even without any major contact with water, Harriet says the bikini still left her body and bedsheets covered in orange dye.
She thinks this is because she applied a squirt of body spray while wearing the bikini.
Harriet needed two showers to completely remove the dye from her body. When she contacted OhPolly to complain, she was told the bikini ‘shouldn’t get wet’ and was ‘for servin’ looks by the pool only’.
Harriet shared her experience online to warn other customers that even the tiniest bit of liquid might make fast fashion swimsuits transfer their colour.
‘I get so many messages about this bikini,’ Harriet wrote alongside photos. ‘It’s from OhPolly but it’s one of them for ‘poolside only’ which is
ridiculous since it’s listed in the ‘swim’ section.
‘I did not get in the pool with this bikini, water contact was TINY and this is the colour transfer!
‘The bikini itself is stunning but I wish I’d known it literally cannot come in to contact with any water at all or else the colour will run and stain everything including my skin!
‘Love the bikini but spending £40 to barely be able to wear it is not ideal.’
People responded to the tweet, calling the bikini a ‘rip off’.
Harriet said OhPolly offered to replace the bikini for free, but she thinks the whole concept of a swimsuit that can’t get wet is ‘ridiculous’.
She said: ‘I completely understand that they cater largely for influencers, but what use is a bikini to most of us that literally can’t come in to any contact with water?
‘Also, why would it be listed under the ‘swim’ section, when you absolutely could not do any swimming in those bikinis?’
‘To be honest, I’ve been pretty dissatisfied with them as a whole recently anyway. I will definitely think twice before ordering from there from now
on.’
We’ve reached out to OhPolly for comment and will update this article should we hear back.
This is just the latest in a series of swimsuits not designed for swimming.
In July a customer called out PrettyLittleThing for a bikini that turned transparent in water, while in May someone slammed the brand for selling a bikini that bled blue dye in water.
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