Patent ID: 7305715

Claim:
A bathing suit consisting of a fabric short garment having an upper waistband and two descending leg portions bounded in part by opposed front and rear surfaces, said bathing suit having an upwardly opening pocket disposed in each front surface of said leg portion adjacent said waistband, each pocket confining a rolled up elongated tubular inflatable bladder having a proximal extremity which is attached to said bathing suit, and a distal extremity having means for interengaging the distal extremity of the other bladder, said bladders being adapted to be unrolled to a deployed state in the direction of the wearer's head; a first of said bladders has a length greater than the length of the other bladder, the length of the first bladder is such so as to extend around the back of the wearer's neck; the distal extremities of said bladder, in said deployed state, meet at a site in front of the wearer.