Packing a bikini you’re not fully sold on is a particular kind of holiday regret. You wear it because it’s what you brought, but it sits wrong or gaps somewhere or the colour looked better online, and suddenly you’re thinking about it every time you’re at the pool. We wanted to fix that. This collection is built around bikinis we’d actually be happy to unpack. The ones with proper structure in the top, with ties that don’t loosen the moment you move, with prints and colourways that look as good in real light as they do in photographs. We’ve included supportive underwired options for anyone who needs more than a triangle top can offer, and some brilliant minimal styles for those who want clean lines and nothing fussy. Sizing runs across a solid range and several of our picks let you mix top and bottom separately, which is how it should work. A bikini is not a small purchase and it travels with you. It deserves to be right. These are the ones worth the suitcase space.