At both their Miami and Los Angeles locations, the Standard Hotel will be setting up some pretty innovative vending machines. Just in case your bathing suit is somewhere in that suitcase that you lost in another country, there will be vending machines that sell Quicksilver board shorts, sunglasses and bikinis, so you can get your surf on regardless of a lack of luggage.
The boardshorts are going for $75 and the bikini (which is reversible, I might add) is $88. Yes, a bit pricey for a vending machine bathing suit, but the Standard Hotel is really doing you a favor!
Swimwear Vending Machines
The Standard Hotel Creates Suit Dispensing Devices
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