swimming poofy

I wanted to bump this since it is summer time. I made some poofies and they looked a little crazy. I made them too big it seems. so I made them smaller and less tight; a little looser and they worked great. Used them for the first time yesterday at our pool club. I have a halter style swim top I got from Lands End last year. I had Nordstrom sew in pockets. It worked great. The top is high enough in the middle not to gap too much and the halter allows for adjustment.

Haven't done laps yet so we'll see how that works. May have to get a higher top for that.

So the poofs drained well and feel light. My suit has a substantial fabric (not super thin like racing suits) and I think that works well for not showing lumps and bumps.

 Annie

I tried to make poofies like this and they kept turning out too hard and too large, so I sewed pockets into the suits I wanted to put poofies in and I took an unrolled shower poofy and just kept scrunching and stuffing into the pocket until I had what seemed to be the right size and cut the poofy at that point.  Then I pulled the poofy out and did a somewhat neater job of rolling it up and put it back in (did that to both sides) and it works great.  I did that to three suits that all had nice, smoothly formed cups which conceals any lumpiness and bumpiness from my sad attempt...hey but whatever works.

I am not clever enough to make this poofy thing.  I ended up buying an Amoena swim form.  I also bought some mastectomy swim bras (they look kind of like a sports bra) and I wear them under my regular swim suits instead of mastectomy suit.  Yes, the swim bra shows, but it is black and it looks fine.   Here is what I bought:

http://www.womanspersonalhealth.com/luisa-luisa-bathing-suit-mastectomy-bra 

Thanks for the pics.  I was going to make some last year and wasn't exactly sure how to make them.  I ended up doing reconstruction, the poofs would have been cheaper! NJ

Mine don't look as good as yours but will try them in one of my suits for this holiday.Thanks

... bumping, 'cause there have been questions about using bath scrunchies for swimwear on another thread.

otter

This worked great...love that I don't have to run out and buy a new suit, especially with all the medical expenses in the past months. Thanks for sharing!

Help! I tried making the swim poofys this past weekend...with no luck.  Well, I got them made, but they didn't work in the suit I had.  (I tried making several different sizes.) There was a gap between the suit and me, so you could see the poofy.  What type of suit top are you using these in?  My top was the halter type.  The short time that I had them in the suit they felt very hard and uncomfortable. ( I am very sensitive as I have regained all sensation plus some on the UMX side.)  What am I doing wrong?  I ended up using the poofy net to make a pocket for a silicon form and tacked the net pocket in the suit top.  It wasn't great, but it worked for this past weekend.  Need to figure out something better though.  Any ideas, or help would be greatly appreciated!

FLwarrior, I couldn't get them made right either.  They were too dense and uncomfortable.  So I just loosely rolled and stuffed some of the poofy into the pockets.  It works in suits that have a thicker cup area, I don't think it would work with suits with just a thin lining rather than a cup.

Bumping for swimsuit season.

I finally got the OK to do water aerobics 8 weeks post mastectomy. I tried making this and it worked great. When I sewed it into my bathing suit I sewed it in wrong position. When I took the stitches out, the foofy kind of fell apart. I had to roll it back together. Now it is pinned and ready to tack in again. I wanted to do this cheaply because I'm finished with the expansion injections and waiting for reconstruction. I want to exercise as much as possible before surgery-(not easy with my work schedule).

Thanks for the idea, purplemb!  I want to take Aquasize in the fall and, what to do about a bathing suit?  (It's been 1 1/2 years since my left side mast.)  I was looking into Google for a place that would sell mast swimsuits in my area when I came across this thread.  I have a swimsuit - V neck - not appropriate!  But I took my Genie bra in an appropriate colour, stuffed the poofy into the pocket between the foam shield and the lining and put it on under the bathing suit.  It doesn't look bad.  The poofy is slightly too large because I am small busted (34B/36A) but, on the upside, it bulges on the inside of my bathing suit and fills in the hollow so, if I bend over, you can't see anything.  Considering that the chlorine in the water of the pool damages a swimsuit very rapidly,  I have saved myself quite a bit of money using what I have on hand.  Now, with the ideas from this thread in mind, I am going shopping for a swimsuit  on sale.  Thanks again to you, purplemb, and to the others who have contributed their ideas.

Bumping for swimsuit season.

I went yesterday to Nordstrom to be "re"fitted - time for my new bras and I wanted to ask about forms that would be more comfortable for my yoga classes.  I'm going to start some aqua fitness classes, too, and the fitter showed me the Amoena swim forms.  Welllllll.... I knew about the poofy instructions and I decided that at a couple of bucks for shower poofs vs. my out of pocket at about maybe $200 for the forms, I'd give that a pass.  I'm swimsuit shopping now (I tossed out my suits after my surgery 2 years ago and haven't been swimming since).  I'm not crafty either but I'm kind of excited about making this work!