Being able to open their eyes underwater changes what a child is willing to try: diving for something on the bottom, swimming a whole length with t...

In a lot of families the swim bag never fully gets unpacked ~ lessons on a Tuesday, the pool on the weekend, and whatever the next few months turn ...

Swim rarely happens once and then stops. It arrives in runs: three days of lessons, then a week by the water, the same suit back out each morning s...

Swimming is rarely one clean session ~ in, out, dry off, back in, and the suit stays on through all of it.The Short Sleeve Rashguard Swimsuit in th...

Water is not only the sea. A towel poncho gets pulled on after the pool, after the sprinkler in the yard, after the bath ~ which is what makes it o...

The size run starts at 20-21 and ends at 34-35, which is the distance between a first pair of water shoes and a pair an older child still fits. One...

Swimming asks a lot of a garment. Full overhead reaches, a child hauled up onto the side and straight back in, and every bit of it wet.The GRECH &a...

The hood buttons at the neck, which is what makes the difference on the walk back when the wind picks up ~ and it does.The Bathing Towel Poncho in ...

Sunset Meadow is already in the swim bag as swimwear, which makes the shoes less a new thing to buy than the rest of the same one.GRECH & CO.'s...

Indoor pools run all year, which makes swim goggles one of the least seasonal things a child owns. Lessons in February, a lake in July, the same pa...

The care routine is short enough to remember at the end of a pool day: inside out, 30°C, hang dry, nothing hot.The GRECH & CO. Long Sleeve Rash...

Lining a gingham up edge to edge across a seam takes more than one attempt ~ the kind of detail that only registers on a suit worn several times a ...

A poncho is the towel a child can keep wearing. Hood up, hands free, still busy with whatever was happening before the water.GRECH & CO.'s Bath...

The pair that gets worn again tomorrow is the one that was simple to deal with today: rinsed, left to air dry, back in the bag.GRECH & CO.'s Si...

Opening your eyes underwater is the step that turns a swimming lesson into swimming. Once a child can see where the wall is, the water stops being ...

A flat towel has to be held. A poncho goes over the head and stays there, which leaves a child's hands free for whatever comes after the water.GREC...

Still damp from yesterday and on again this morning ~ which is roughly how swim works with young children.The GRECH & CO. Short Sleeve Rashguar...

Some children get in and stay in. A long sleeve rashguard is for those swims, when the water is where the whole afternoon happens and coming out is...

Hot stones on the walk down, then straight into the water without stopping to change. One pair covers both halves of that, which is the whole reaso...

The print a child wears at four is still made at eleven. Pegasus runs from 6-12 months to 10-12 years, the same drawing size to size in between.GRE...

Pool steps, a sprinkler, the shallow end of a lake ~ the same suit does all of it.GRECH & CO.'s Short Sleeve Rashguard Swimsuit in the Pegasus ...

Terry is what a towel poncho is for. It takes the water off a child who is still moving, hair included, and keeps doing it while they carry on with...

Getting dry shoes onto wet feet is its own small operation at the end of a swim. A pair that went in the water does not ask for it.The GRECH & ...

Swimming tends to be a weekly thing for years rather than a summer thing, so goggles earn their place by being easy: wiped down, back in the bag, o...

A front zipper is a small design decision with a daily consequence: the pull tab has to work in wet hands, because at the water's edge those are th...

Still damp from yesterday and on again this morning ~ which is roughly how swim works around here.GRECH & CO.'s Short Sleeve Rashguard Swimsuit...

The walk back from the water is the cold stretch of a swimming day, and a hood plus a full body of terry takes care of most of it.The Bathing Towel...

Swim shoes only get used when they are easy to bring, and these are light enough that the swim bag can simply keep them from one swim to the next.T...

Worn, pushed up onto the forehead between goes, left there, pulled back down again ~ the strap survives it. That cycle is most of what a pair of ch...

Swim lessons midweek, the lake in August, the shallow end at the far side of a long afternoon. A rashguard earns its place by being the one thing t...

Handed down, a swimsuit only works if it still looks like the one on the shelf.The GRECH & CO. Long Sleeve Rashguard Ruffle Swimsuit in Scandi ...

A swimsuit earns its place by how many times it goes back on, not by how it looks the first day out.The Short Sleeve Rashguard Swimsuit in Scandi F...

Getting changed outdoors goes better when there is something to do it inside of. Buttons at the sides are what turn a towel into that.The Bathing T...

Most swim shoes look like every other swim shoe. Scandi Floral is how this pair gets spotted across a busy pool deck and picked up again at the end...

Three to twelve is a long stretch of childhood for one pair of goggles to cover, and the adjustable strap is what makes that possible ~ the same pa...

Goggles are usually the first piece of swim gear a child manages entirely alone: on, off, rinsed, back in the bag.GRECH & CO.'s Anti-Fog Swim G...