It is an unfortunate fact of life that most women's underwear seems to fall apart after only a relatively small amount of washings, whereas men's underwear lasts for hundreds of washings, so I don't expect miracles from panties, but this particular brand is exceptionally frail.

I do strictly handwashing of lingerie to prolong its life, and I can usually get 12-24 washings out of inexpensive brands like Hanes, but not FOTL. Within no more than four or five washings of this underwear, the stitching holding the elastic starts to unravel, and a few washings after that the elastic itself begins to lose all its stretch--at that point they are only fit for the trash.

Finally, this particular package of these "fashion" bikinis comes in only solid colors, which is rather boring and anything but fashionable.