Purchased a bikini and discovered on the label: "Do not wet me - poses by the pool only"

Georgina Eiling ordered the perfect-looking bikini from Pretty Little Thing and discovered on its label a ban on getting into the water with it.

She's not the only one left shocked by this

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20/04/2022

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 00:10

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Five facts about swimwear ("Do not miss" system)

When you buy a bikini it is for the purpose of wearing it for a dip in the sea or in the pool, right?

After all, that's the whole point of a swimsuit.

It's literal in its name.

Well, apparently it's not necessarily binding, as a ticktock user recently said she purchased a pink bikini from PrettyLittleThing that came with a particularly odd warning label - asking her not to wet the item.

Georgia Eiling (who posts under the name @geeayling) shared a video in which she shows the confusing label on her new bikini, which reads: "Do not wet me - poses by the pool only".

That means the bikini is only meant for uploading photos to Instagram and less for immersion in water.

On the video she wrote: "I'm trying to figure out why I want a bikini that I can not wet it."

The Pretty Little Thing website, next to the bikini - which sells for £ 30 - says nothing about the fact that the fabric made of "78% cotton and 22% knitted polyester" is not waterproof.

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The video provoked a lot of angry reactions.

"It's so annoying to me," one wrote, to which Georgia replied, "I cry from it."

Another wrote: "It's so funny," to which Georgia replied, "It's not really funny to me."

Another wrote: "And to think I was just about to order this item. Thank you."

Many were furious at the network: "What's the point of buying a bikini that can't be used for its main purpose?"

One article and another added: "This is literally what fashion represents. How can you market clothes for the pool without being able to enter the pool with them but only to be photographed with them for Instush. It's crazy."

Others wondered how the bikini could be washed if it could not be wetted.

Waterproof bikini, Pretty Little Thing (Photo: Official website, Pretty Little Thing)

"How can you market pool clothes without being able to enter the pool with them?" (Photo: Official Website, Pretty Little Thing)

Some viewers said they purchased the item in both parts and went into the water with it despite the instructions.

"Nothing happened. I went into the water with him and he survived," one reporter and another added: "I'm still wearing mine. It's okay. I did not feel any difference."

Fabulous contacted Pretty Little Thing for comment but this was not received.

This is not the first time the controversial bikini has made headlines.

In 2019, a customer of Pretty Little Thing told about the blue-and-gold bikini she ordered online and found the same hallucinatory label on it.

Compared to some of the viewers in the video of Georgia who said that despite the instructions they went into the water with the bikini and nothing happened, she said then that the blue color went down and dispersed in the water when she washed it.

The blue swimsuit is soaked in blue water (Photo: screenshot, twitter.com/Princrastinate)

Customer Elisha, a resident of England, shared photos of the bikini bottoms in a sink filled with blue water to show how the color "bled" from the garment.

She contacted PrettyLittleThing and wrote: "I love the bikini. I just do not know how to prevent the color from flowing anywhere when it is in the water. It just does not seem normal to me."

In response, the brand advised her simply not to put the item in water.

A company employee wrote to her: "It's great to hear that you like the bikini, but on the website it says that you are not allowed to wear the set for water and that the color may fall off."

In this case, next to the item, this warning was indeed written, including an explanation that the color may fall due to the use of polyester.

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