The Mankini & Other Beach Trends We'd Like To See Banned (PHOTOS)

We'd like to take a moment to commend the Newquay Safe Partnership, a government group cracking down on indecency in the British town of Cornwall.

The group's latest victory, according to the Telegraph? The confiscation of a mankini, one of the most visually offensive items of beachwear ever invented (we blame you, Borat).

But one mankini is not enough. We implore the Newquay Safe Partnership and its team of Proper Police over to come stateside (specifically to Seaside Heights, perhaps?) to address five other major fashion faux pas currently haunting our beaches.

Behold, the five most heinous beach trends we want to see banned.

Comments

[AlsoSarah]

11:22 AM on 07/15/2011

Love the man-kini. All men should have to wear them as women wear bikinis.

[Json]

04:41 PM on 07/14/2011

All citizens should be issued a standard gray cloak to be worn at all times.

[canobserv]

10:48 AM on 07/14/2011

what is wrong with dangly belly button rings???........seriously.....

[AlsoSarah]

11:22 AM on 07/15/2011

So 90's

[GirlUsingBrain]

05:09 PM on 07/13/2011

"confiscation of a mankini"

Man ... I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole!

[Robby Bolan]

04:00 PM on 07/13/2011

It must've been the fashion police!!!

[Kevin C Heaps]

01:24 PM on 07/13/2011

Slide 3 is actually leg warmers, not boots :-)

[GirlUsingBrain]

05:08 PM on 07/13/2011

Reminescent of Raquel Welch in 1 Million Years B.C. or Alice the Goon.

[Scoville Scale]

12:31 PM on 07/13/2011

As Canadians, we're wrapped in multiple layers of clothing for nine months of the year.
If you want to feel the sun and the breeze on your skin, I say go for it!
Heck, take it ALL off, if you want.
In some strange way, I think this would be preferable to the mankini!

[AlsoSarah]

11:24 AM on 07/15/2011

So, may I ask, how do you get your vitamin D?

[kemcha]

12:12 PM on 07/13/2011

The mankini? I'm sorry. But, while it may sound like a cool idea, the mankini is offensive to me, and I'm a guy. Leave it to Sacha Baron Cohen to offend even more Americans.

[milcah marcelo]

05:00 PM on 07/13/2011

Out of curiosity "offend even more Americans" is in reference to a film that came out 5 years ago, to the mankini emulator in a Cornish beachtown (oh, wait, Americans got nothing to do with that) or to you being offended by seeing that picture now?

[talkofliberty]

11:57 AM on 07/13/2011

More liberal attacks on the First Amendment.

[SalesmanForLife]

11:46 AM on 07/13/2011

Sorry but a man sarong is sexy.

[Susan Shaffer]

05:25 PM on 07/13/2011

especially if he has no swimsuit underneath, the wind blows slightly...oh how disappointing nothing worth seeing here, move along

[AlsoSarah]

11:25 AM on 07/15/2011

Haha! Not.

[hueylover]

10:36 AM on 07/13/2011

The Newquay Safe Partnership sound like something from a Monty Python sketch

[Statusnaturae]

10:11 AM on 07/13/2011

Borat is packing

[Susan Shaffer]

05:25 PM on 07/13/2011

his rugby socks

[Arrech]

09:39 AM on 07/13/2011

ONLY ONE MANKINI

I WANT TO SEE MORE!

[american-dolt]

11:46 AM on 07/13/2011

I think only one exists.

[CHMB]

09:38 AM on 07/13/2011

I didn't realize Big Brother was into fashion now.

[NewArtz]

09:03 AM on 07/13/2011

The trendiest body form for Americans is obese. It's all the rage. Eating more than the body needs is our fashion statement, and if anyone doesn't like it, tough.

Our appetite for fats & carbohydrates trumps our appetite to look "fashionable" according to another's fantasy.

This is the naked truth regardless of what textiles we wear to cover it up.