In case you haven’t consulted that sexy fireman/priest/dishwasher calendar lately, it’s July already, folks, which can mean only one thing: exuberant displays of half-naked nationalism! Canadian readers got their dose on Tuesday, the French get theirs the week after next—and we, like the Baby Bears that we are, are just right in the middle. (Brits, for reasons still unclear, got their special day back in June. Which seems a little antisocial to us. Just sayin’!) In preparation for our staff trip to the beach pool lawn sprinkler, we looked high and low for skimpy swimwear to express our true Inner American. And what do you know? There’s a heck of a lot of Old Glory-inspired beachwear out there than we ever would have imagined. (Or would ever wear ourselves, but that’s another story.)