Kids Swimwear ~ Rashguards, Swimsuits and Swim Shoes

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 ...

The summer a child properly learns to swim is spent getting in and out of the water, not sitting beside it. A one piece is the suit for it.GRECH &a...

There is a stretch of childhood where a swimsuit has to look like something they chose themselves. This one runs that far.GRECH & CO.'s Sweethe...

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...

Half of a two piece can come off without the other half. For a child who is starting to manage the changing room on their own, that is most of the ...

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...

Getting changed at the water's edge is a job most children would rather do themselves. These pull on and off at an elastic waistline, with nothing ...

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...

A one piece is the swimsuit that keeps up with everything happening around the swimming: the climb out, the run back along the edge, the jump strai...

Slider straps get let out a notch at a time, which is its own quiet way of marking a year of growing.The Vintage Girls 1 Piece Swimsuit in Sunset M...

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 ...

The shape here is the plain one ~ a full suit with adjustable straps, cut to be swum in rather than arranged.The GRECH & CO. Vintage Girls 1 Pi...

Eight percent spandex is a small number doing an obvious job ~ the fabric gives where a child moves rather than pulling against them.GRECH & CO...

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 ...

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...

The cut-out heart on the back is the part they show you first ~ over one shoulder, mid-run.The Sweetheart 1 Piece Swimsuit in Buckwheat Plaid is GR...

Side pockets on swim trunks fill up. A shell, a flat stone, something that was clearly worth keeping ~ they come out of the water heavier than they...

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...

This one runs to 10-12 years, so an oldest and a youngest can be in the same print in the same summer, and the bigger size is still worth keeping w...

A one piece stays a one piece through a running jump, which is most of what a swimsuit is actually asked to do.The Sweetheart 1 Piece Swimsuit in t...

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 ...

What wears swim trunks out is rarely the swimming. It is the sand, the sun and every wash after it, which is why the care line on these is worth re...

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...

Straps that let out are the difference between a swimsuit that fits this summer and one that still fits the next. These are set on sliders, let out...

Most of a swimming day happens out of the water ~ the digging, the eating, the long walk back. Swim trunks are what a child stays in for all of it,...

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...

Scandi Floral appears on more than one piece in the range, which is what keeps a swimsuit from being the odd thing in a bag packed in a hurry.The S...

A floral is a print here, not a category ~ Scandi Floral is for whichever child reaches for it.GRECH & CO.'s Swim Trunks in Scandi Floral are c...

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...