Apparently women can’t bear to part with their ‘swimsuit souvenirs’ and many are also hanging on to bikinis to remind them of lost loves and passions from the past.

Online swimwear retailer Kiniki has found many women can’t bear to part with their itsy bitsy bikinis, even if their size-eight days are over; from thongs to sarongs, we will keep our collection of swimwear-through-the-ages stashed at the back of our drawers.

The average woman owns 7 items of swimwear, with some even admitting they hoard between a whopping 30 and 40 in contrast to their partners who is more likely to own just two items of beachwear: the schoolboy Speedos and the clichéd floral-print trunks…. Mr SC is too vain to have just the two but OMG, this is dad all over!!!

Kiniki found that their ‘Cheetan’ design is the one most likely to remind women of the time they encountered an ‘Italian Stallion’ lover, the ‘Fiji’ print is the one that most associate with a holiday fling where true romance blossomed and the ‘Hot Leopard’ print for lovers they’d rather forget!

This is serious girls… what bikini will you be sporting this summer?