For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 21, 2012

Note that her husband never said anything…:D

I love the way the kids are interacting while their moms are talking.

Elly is trying to seduce John again.

Maybe Lane Bryant would be a good next choice.

You guys are brutal. Because I’m sure you are in perfect shape, eat healthy 100% of the time, are better than Dr. Phil in relationships, and help African orphans in your spare time. :-\Compared to a lot of Americans (soon to include other nations), Elly is pretty normal-sized. While Elly can be pretty mean to John at times, he can also be pretty mean right back and she is nice to him at times (see the strip recently where she mothered him). Personally, I thought it was just funny/embarrassing that she went all summer without knowing that people could see everything…

Some women would love to be seen in a suit like that!

And of course since we have a guy dealing with his wife, keeping his mouth shut also got him in trouble.

It’s always the ones who wouldn’t be noticed that are afraid of being seen. (I tried to be nice about that…)

If you’re wondering, like I was, the swimsuit belonged to Lynn’s friend.

ha-ha… unfortunately … this happened to me!

gmartin, could you expand on that reference to husband basher?

Elly actually does swim, every time she’s at the water. So do I. I’m not gorgeous either, but neither am I huge, nor very saggy yet (which happens to all women, skinny or not- and probably men as well, though nobody is remarking on them here). I don’t particularly care what people think. I LOVE to swim and play and it shows, and if that’s what I teach my children, so much the better.

Women’s swimsuits are terrible. They snag, fade, stretch, don’t last long, and cost a lot. And yes, many are see-through. Men can buy a suit for $20 and it will last 20 years.

I never picked up on that; I did read somewhere that just as this strip was coming to an end, Lynn Johnson’s husband divorced her. I don’t recall reading a reason.

For me I will never wear a swimsuit not evan onepiece. i will not go to a beach, I do not live anywhere near one either.

Ironically, the solar tan-thru suits are guaranteed NOT to be see-thru, even if wet, yet dry very fast and let you get a partial tan (similar to having SPF 7 lotion on) underneath. For ladies they come now in one piece, two-piece (various styles too), even for men in various sizes from banana hammock to full board shorts – LOL. We men are VERY vain about how we look at the beach or pool – our mental image is stronger than reality, unfortunately. It just depends how long we need to suck in our gut while the bikinis walk by …

Hey, I know this has nothing to do with the comic, but I want to read the archives, does anyone know when April first showed up?

Notorious husband basher, terrible mother, and general all round not nice person only to some of the posters here.

just be like our kind, wear Nothing.

Elly just needs to work out a little and diet some and then she’ll look great in a bathing suit. Give her a chance, you guys!

Lynn’s Notes:When I was in art school, English Bay was an easy walk away. Many of us would take off with bags full of food and a change of clothing and hit the beach. My friend Addie had a brand new white bathing suit in which she looked stunningly beautiful. She pranced about the lifeguard’s stand enjoying his admiring looks, but was stunned when, after a dip in the ocean, he ran towards her with a towel. Her white bathing suit became completely transparent when wet! Addie turned beet red- and it wasn’t from the sun!

I don’t know where anyone gets that she is talking to her husband — that’s her friend Annie sitting there saying nothing. Today that $40.00 would only get her a top or a bottom to a suit — if she is lucky.

Yes, lindz, when this strip was current, $40 was a lot for a suit. Now, the only $40 suit you could find would be four tens: three for the front and one for the back.

I usually like it when women wear those kinds of suits…

Thank you!

Dang! And I missed it.