Holiday outfits

 I love dressing for a holiday!!! Dresses and skirts and pretty tops and light things. But I always like to have an option for covering up in the sun as I don't want to expose my skin too much, plus sun cream application is tedious plus I have moles on my back, arms that I am always a bit cautious of,

But, I thought it would be fun to document some of my holiday outfits.

Remember my £5 white, rayon, embroidered dress from the charity shop? I saved this for the day we were going to go to Saint Tropez but in the end, decided not to go- I wore the dress anyway.  I picked some flowers from the bush to try and trick my Balinese gamelan group into thinking I was in Bali! Worn with Belgian-bought belt and a pair of Primark flipflops bought from the charity shop for £1 the day before we went away!

Another photo to trick the gamelan group (the day bed was purchased in Bali from the house owner...who owns a house in Bali too! Lucky man!)

The outfit features the Monstera print linen dress I bought in Leigh when my trouser elastic went.  I added a white broderie anglaise button down blouse from Miss Selfridge for sun protection.

We visited Cannes one day (too hot for a city day!) even one by a beach. I wore a white cotton top from Next (charity shopped) which has some lace trims on. Along with that I wore this blue water patterned silk skirt from Monsoon (also charity shopped). I've had this as long as I've known CBC, bar one year! I wore it with my Saltwater floral sandals (second hand via Depop). Worn with silver Rieker sandals.

One evening we went to a local restaurant called The Two Pines. Here's what I wore. My royal blue cotton jersey Grecian dress from ASOS (bought in 2011) and I bought a lovely blue-patterned rayon blouse/cardie from a shop in Langue, a town we had visited that day. It was made in Bali, I think everything in that shop was made in Bali and it made me remember the smell in lovely shops in Bali. You can see my Rieker lattice Mary Jane shoes poking out. They are very old and extremely faded and not at all stylish but I love them for holidays and Summer. One of the lattices was broken and the local shoe mender patched it for me. Possibly my favourite outfit!

On the Tuesday of our holiday, CBC went off to Nice to do a big cycle ride on a hire bike. The rest of us visited Frejus, by the coast.  I wore my Phool soft cotton button down dress  (charityshopped) in red/pink.  I teamed it with the Topshop hat that Vix sent me as a present plus a Liberty paisley silk scarf from TK Maxx and my Seasalt sandals.  There was also a Per Una white cotton shirt I covered up with which wasn't in this photo! My hair got very windy here!

Another day, we had gone for a trek in the woods (with a HORRIBLE down-hill, scrambly bit!) as it was a cooler, rainy day. I was wearing a different outfit (see the Fromagery below) when we visited a village called Langue but had brought clothes to change into if we went on a trek.

Here you can see:

1970's cheesecloth blouse- this was a hand-me down from my Mum. This was my absolute favourite blouse that I wore all the time in Indonesia when I lived there. I teamed it with a Seasalt buff, worn as a headband (a present from my friend Ellie) and sand-coloured pin stripe linen shorts from Lidl middle aisles...plus my hiking shoes from Hitek!

Excuse the bad acting. This massive plant was in our garden at the house and we pretended it was some sort of Doctor Who monster!

The dress was a charity shopped viscose (I think) Ikat dress, loose fitting with a crocheted front- it had no labels so I don't know where it was from originally. This is what I wore in Nice.  You can see my Rieker shoes showing in this photo!

Ha! Here's my 2 piece swim suit.  This is from Speedo and I bought it at the Olympic pool in Stratford back in 2014 when we went to swim there and stupidly, I had forgotten my swimming stuff!!!  I like it very much because it has proper shorts (I do not like high cut swimsuits!) and a long top meaning a lumpy mole on my midriff is covered up!

Do you have a favourite?

xx