The wall calendar business has been booming over the last few years thanks to an explosion of creativity on the part the people trying to figure out how to sell them to people like you and me.

The choices are limitless both online and at gift shops across our vast nation.

There are calendars about cute cats, adorable dogs, exotic birds, sports cars, superheroes, fairies, famous works of art, national parks, beer, nuts, rustic outhouses (i.e. bathrooms that are not in your house for those of you unfamiliar with the term), sexy firefighters, and just about anything else you can imagine would perk up someone's interest in looking for the dates, months and days of the week on their wall accompanied by cool pictures.

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As many of you are surely aware, swimsuit calendars, in the post-SI Swimsuit Issue world have also been hot sellers.

Now, a group of Canadian women best known for their world class skills on alpine skis are looking to add the term "skin suit" to the lexicon of modern calendar-related terms.

Before you get too excited (don't even think of Googling the term…keep your mind out of the gutter and stick to reading this article and look at the pictures we've posted) , this calendar is about "skin suits" not skin.

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The term skin suit, if you are unfamiliar with it, is the super skin tight race suit worn by winter sports athletes in an assortment of disciplines from luge to bobsleigh. Historically speaking, "skin suit" dates back to the 1970s when Canada's best alpine ski racers popularized the term "skin to win."  Racers from that era (and it still continues today in some cases) decided to go "commando" under their spandex race suits to reduce drag on their bodies while whizzing down the world's most treacherous slopes on the World Cup circuit.

Does it work? Who knows. Is it on everyone's mind when they see an alpine skier ripping down a race course….uhhhhhhh….maybe.

With funding cuts, tight budgets and the challenges of competing in a sport anchored with the fiscal pressures associated with high priced equipment and costly travel, lodging and training expenses, the women of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team decided to solve the problem by showing off the slinky suits they wear to work on a wall calendar.

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"The idea of to make a women's team calendar was something that started at the beginning of the summer during an Alpine Canada Stampede party, " says Mikaela Tommy, one of the Canadian team's young up and coming stars.

"Although we had always talked about doing a Photoshop or making a calendar to promote our women's team, we never really got around to actually committing to it. During the party I met a photographer who immediately said he would like to do a shoot for us one day so we could have good and proper pictures of ourselves for our sport. From there, the idea just snowballed into a calendar."

So with the help of Alpine Canada, the sport's national governing body, a ski-racing-friendly Calgary-based photographer named Perry Thompson who volunteered to help, and Helly Hansen the ski team's new clothing supplier, the calendar became a reality and was unveiled earlier this week in Toronto at the team's annual kickoff event.

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"We couldn't have achieved this without Perry who volunteered his time, Alpine Canada who paid for the printing of the calendars, and Helly Hansen who supplied the suits showcased in every picture of the calendar," Tommy added.

The calendars are currently on sale on the team's blog. All profits go directly to the women's ski team…which begs the question – will we see a "Men in Tights" calendar featuring the men of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team anytime soon?