{"id":16198,"date":"2015-06-20T12:15:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T17:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=16198"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:53:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:53:56","slug":"jessica-rey-on-bathing-suits-who-says-it-has-to-be-itty-bitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2015\/06\/jessica-rey-on-bathing-suits-who-says-it-has-to-be-itty-bitty.html","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Rey On Bathing Suits: &#8220;Who Says It Has To Be Itsy Bitsy?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2013\/06\/ReySurf_grande.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16199\" title=\"ReySurf_grande\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2013\/06\/ReySurf_grande.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/a><br>\nUPDATE 6\/20\/2016: <em>On their website, <strong>Jessica Rey Swimwear<\/strong> celebrates the first day of Summer with a 20% Discount code, <\/em>ICECREAM20. <em>You heard it here first.\u00a0<\/em> <em>If you\u2019re not familiar with this brand of swimwear, have a look at the post I wrote three years back.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Better, longer, and more involved posts on modesty, swim suits, and debates surrounding the same can be found at other blogs. Try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/2013\/06\/modesty-sets-fire.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Barnes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/theholyfool.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/the-bikini-question-rebuttal.html?showComment=1370269372709\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Holy Fool<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeteen.com\/bikini-battle-sexy-vs-beautiful\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lifeteen<\/a>, \u00a0etc., for the dos, don\u2019ts, whys, and wherefores of the perennial\u00a0bikini controversy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Me? I\u2019m a simple man. I\u2019d rather listen to a beautiful young lady explain a) why she doesn\u2019t prefer the bikini, who b) decided to become an\u00a0entrepreneur and make swim suits that are beautiful and that don\u2019t give away the store.<\/p>\n<p>The entrepreneur is named Jessica Rey. Some of you may know her as <a href=\"http:\/\/images2.wikia.nocookie.net\/__cb20120105215706\/powerrangers\/images\/0\/03\/WF_White_Wild_Force_Ranger.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">White Power Ranger<\/a>, and stood in line at ComicCon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicarey.com\/index2.php?v=v1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">to get her autograph<\/a>. Listening to her brief talk here will take less time, and cost less money. Be advised: earworm alert!<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jessica Rey - The evolution of the swim suit\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WJVHRJbgLz8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Inspired by Audrey Hepburn? Sounds pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>If you need more convincing that modesty is the best policy, and think seeing is believing, then take a look at this video for the 2014 collection.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rey Swimwear Spring 2014 Video Look Book\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RQducBMYlrM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Shop for her swimwear, hats, sunglasses, etc. at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reyswimwear.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Rey Swimwear<\/em><\/a>. Edith Head approves!<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reyswimwear\/?fref=photo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">their Facebook page<\/a> to get updates, etc.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 6\/20\/2016: On their website, Jessica Rey Swimwear celebrates the first day of Summer with a 20% Discount code, ICECREAM20. You heard it here first.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not familiar with this brand of swimwear, have a look at the post I wrote three years back. Better, longer, and more involved posts on modesty, swim suits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,36,23],"tags":[24,1198,1201,1200,1199,53,1196,1197],"class_list":["post-16198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-living","category-nature","tag-beauty","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-fashion","tag-jessica-rey","tag-modesty","tag-other-blogs","tag-summer","tag-swimwear"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jessica Rey On Bathing Suits: &quot;Who Says It Has To Be Itsy Bitsy?&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UPDATE 6\/20\/2016: On their website, Jessica Rey Swimwear celebrates the first day of Summer with a 20% Discount code, ICECREAM20. 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