Carve Designs Review 2024

This lightweight cotton shirt features a four-button style and long sleeves that can be rolled and then buttoned. You could easily use it over a bikini as a coverup or wear it as I am (above) as a casual everyday shirt.

Is the Dylan Gauze Shirt: Cloud Ikat Shirt Comfortable?

This is have been my most-worn shirt so far this year because it is SO comfortable. I love it. I will admit, though, while the loose style is comfy as all get out… it isn’t the most flattering shirt that I own. It’s a little tent-like on me from some angles. However, given how comfortable it is, I don’t care one bit!

Admittedly, I could wear it tucked in, as they have it on the website. That would certainly look tidier, but I just love how comfy it is untucked.

It breathes really well too. It’s great to wear as sun protection on a blistering hot day, but I’m still wearing it into fall with a scarf and thicker cami under it.

I also always wear a cami under it, as it is quite sheer. You would be able to see my bra quite well under it if I did not wear a cami with it.

The material is also a little “stiff” and not exactly what I would call soft. I don’t mind it, but it’s worth noting.

Is the Dylan Gauze Shirt: Cloud Ikat Shirt Good Quality?

I followed Carve Designs’ size chart and ordered this shirt in a size small. I think the small fits well. In most brands, I am a size medium.

But Carve Designs also has a “size predictor” you can use with their items where you enter your size in another brand (like prAna, for example), and then it will show you your size in Carve Designs items. This is also accurate, in my experience.

This shirt in the Cloud Ikat print is currently $40 (and other prints/colors of this shirt are less than $30 right now). I think that is a very fair price for a well-made, quality shirt that I wear frequently.

Carve Designs swimwear sells its tops and bottoms separately, so you can mix and match styles, colors, and sizes. I love this! So, the top I have is the Elba style and the bottoms are the Erin.

This is by far the most comfortable swimsuit I own. It is very soft, stretchy, fits well, and doesn’t have an underwire. While I wouldn’t want to try going for a run in this swim top, it does provide adequate support despite the lack of underwire.

This is something that I was perfectly comfortable swimming and tubing in and could see myself comfortably wearing it for a beach volleyball game (if I had any sort of coordination!). I had no issues wearing this swimsuit all day poolside this summer – it was very comfortable.

Is Carve Designs Swimwear Good Quality?

I have only gotten to really wear and wash this swimsuit a few times this summer. I have not been swimming nearly as much as I would have liked it. That said, so far, it is holding up well in the wash, and has survived tubing, water slides, and hours of baking in the sun and chlorine.

It does appear to be a very well-made swimsuit that I am quite pleased with!

Carve Designs Swimsuit Sizing

Again, I followed the size chart and ordered a size small for both the top and the bottom. This is the first time I can say I’ve ever been a size small in swimwear (especially for bottoms – the last pair of bottoms I ordered in a different brand was an XL!).

I think both the top and the bottom fit exactly how they are supposed to. I LOVE this swim top. It has adjustable straps, which is a must for me. It doesn’t have chest pads, but I didn’t feel too “exposed” while wearing it. (The black of course helps – this would have been a different story if it were a white top!)