Fruit Friday: Cheryl Tiegs, 1978

 

Fruit Friday: Solveig, 2015

A little behind-the-scenes pic I found somewhere of Solveig, captured moments after she discovered gravity.

In the Palm of Your Sand

Like all red-blooded American males, I look to the swimsuit issue for one thing: tips on using coconut oil in my day-to-day life. Swim Daily came through with recommended products for hair care, skin care, and, um, lube.

So let us celebrate that most platonic ideal of tropical fruit, the coconut, which obviously makes several appearances in our favorite magazine. In fact, I bet there are lots more examples I’ve missed.

And just for the obligatory “Put the Lime in the Coconut” reference…

Come, Mister Tally Man

Fresh-Squeezed Fruit Friday: Barbara and Emily

Here are Barbara Palvin (2019) and Emily DiDonato (2016) showing a mango and an orange, respectively, no mercy on the beach.

For good measure, here are alternate shots of the girls actually eating the fruit. The methods, especially Emily's, are questionable...

Swimulacra

Okay, so the #SwimsuitIconChallenge is super charming.

The recreations are fun and inventive and often pretty hot.

I’m particularly entranced by this bevy of Elles.

The makeshift solutions are pretty creative, too, using aloe leaves for Petra …

… blowdryers for Christie …

… Sony Walkmans for Marisa …

… and fast food signage for Carol.

Carol herself even got into the act, recreating a fellow cover girl shot.

I think there must have been a starter group of pics that participants could choose from, because there are no fewer than three recreations of this Chandra North pic (complete with heels).

I’m quite familiar with this photo, obviously, but it doesn’t seem like one of the iconic SI shots that would be first on anyone’s mind.

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Anyway, one of the pics that was recreated was this one:

…along with a nice story of the woman who created it.

So in celebration of Alli and Jessica, let’s have a pineapple-themed Fruit Friday.

Yes, We Have Fake Bananas

Decorative plastic bananas make a lovely swimsuit accessory, whether up top:

Patricia Velasquez, 1995

...or down below:

Ariel Meredith, 2012

Fruit Friday: Apples and Oranges

I already covered this shot of May Andersen and her highly suggestive orange.

So I’ll supplement it with this similarly positioned pic of Apples van Ravenstein, shot for the 1979 issue and popping up in Walter Iooss Jr.’s Heaven book.

(Here’s that fruit in situ.)