Marcel Winatschek

No Boys Allowed

The name is a provocation, or at least a joke—"No Boys Allowed," the Been Trill and PacSun swim capsule collection, arriving in time for summer. Been Trill being, of course, a crew that is almost exclusively boys. There’s a self-awareness in that gap worth appreciating.

The collection itself is women’s swimwear, which puts me firmly outside the target consumer but not outside the demographic that notices. Guys get handed a binary when it comes to beach dressing—board shorts or a Speedo, and one of those answers is wrong for most bodies—while the women’s side of summer fashion runs the full spectrum of cuts, colors, and degrees of coverage. The Been Trill aesthetic applied here is graphic-heavy and streetwear-adjacent, the kind of pieces that read as fashion even when they’re technically just somewhere to put your body while it’s wet. I’m not complaining about any of this. The results are exactly what you’d want to see at a pool.