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"What do you look for when you&amp;#x27;re swimsuit shopping? Comfort? A little extra oomph in all the right places? How about the ability to pay for your purchase with a roll of quarters? We&amp;#x27;ve seen Skittles and cigarettes put to shame lately with some rather more genius things emerging from vending machines--remember the one that dispenses flats? Now the Standard Hotels have just announced that they&amp;#x27;ll be selling Quiksilver swimsuits poolside at each of their hotels, available from, yes, vending machines! &amp;quot;We decided to collaborate and make something cool as well as useful for Standard guests. Our core product is boardshorts, and The Standard hotels have pretty notorious pool scenes, so swimsuits made a lot of sense,&amp;quot; Quiksilver&amp;#x27;s Joshua Katz tells today&amp;#x27;s WWD. There are four styles of board shorts available for dudes, and one simple black $84 bikini for women (pictured above). So why the vending machine concept? &amp;amp;#8220;This is a 24-hour customer, and a lot of times they might not have a swimsuit but want to take a late-night swim, after the hotel&amp;amp;#8217;s boutique is closed,&amp;amp;#8221; Katz said. &amp;amp;#8220;We are very much interested in new and progressive ways of reaching our customers.&amp;amp;#8221; The 18th floor spa at New York&amp;#x27;s sexy new Standard Hotel isn&amp;#x27;t open yet (they tell me September-ish), but the Los Angeles property is getting its vending machine in about a week--and you can start buying the suits now at shopthestandard.com. What do you think of the concept, dolls? Convenient and genius or just plain silly? Photo: ShoptheStandard.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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