Everything I Wore in the Caribbean, the daytime stuff

Channelling my inner 80s tennis mom one pair of towelling shorts at a time....

In my previous ‘what I wore in Antigua” debrief, I mentioned my innate inclination for preppy Club Tropicana for this trip and this is the photo evidence of said sartorial leanings for a January jaunt to the Caribbean. 80s tennis mom core if you will.

I knew this was going to be the kind of holiday where you pull on some shorts and a button-down shirt for breakfast, roll onto the beach, pull on the same shirt and shorts again for lunch and repeat… So I pretty much solely packed easy, comfy seperates for daytime dressing and just a couple of breezy dresses. This trip made me realise how intrinsically the way I pack and dress on holiday is influenced by the destination. Something about the tennissy resort-vibe and Caribbean colours of this very lazy trip made me want to be a little more sporty, a little bit retro and lean on a mix of fresh whites and bold colours. That’s not to say I pack entirely different things for a trip to Greece in the summer. It all comes down to accessories for me, so for this trip it was caps over straw hats, cotton totes over baskets and flip flops over leather sandals. Little tweaks that felt more preppy than island wanderer. Case in point, the big 70s-style sunglasses I grabbed at Jimmy Fairly at a routine eye test just before the trip turned out to be a make or break item that took every shorts and shirt ensemble from basic to deliberate in an instant.