You know the bag. The one you spend forty minutes closing and still unpack at the other end to find three outfits you never touch. Not this year. Pack these, leave the rest… just don’t forget your passport.

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1. Linen

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Always start with linen. It’s the easiest fabric to build a holiday wardrobe around.

Linen

Always start with linen. It’s the easiest fabric to build a holiday wardrobe around. Breathable enough for the hottest part of the day, elevated enough for wherever the evening takes you. Breathable enough for the hottest part of the day, elevated enough for wherever the evening takes you. Ours is made from European Flax™ — premium linen fibre grown and certified in Western Europe, traceable from field to finished garment. It’s the difference you feel immediately and see over time: lightweight, naturally breathable, and a fabric that softens and improves with every wear. Machine washable, too. Which, on holiday, matters more than you’d think. Go for separates. A linen shirt and skirt in the same palette gives you three outfits for the price of two — worn together, worn apart, worn with everything else you packed.
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2. Dress

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Dress

Dress

Always pack at least one. The right holiday dress does the day-to-evening shift without any help from you. Wear it to the market in the morning, over your swimsuit to lunch, or to dinner with your favourite sandals and a change of earrings. And when the sun goes down and the temperature drops just enough to notice — that linen shirt you packed in section one works beautifully as a light layer over it. No rethinking, no repacking, no last-minute outfit crisis at 7pm when the evening is already waiting. One dress. More occasions than you’d expect.
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3. Swimwear

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Swimwear

There’s a version of a holiday where you spend the whole time thinking about your swimsuit. And a version where you don’t. The difference is usually the swimsuit. Our Tugless® stays exactly where you put it — no riding up, no shifting, UPF 50 fabric that holds its shape all holiday. The one you’ll reach for every morning without a second thought. For more support, the Slender gives you 360° all-over control with a smoothing, high-compression fit and a draped V-neck that looks as elegant out of the water as in it. One tip: size up for the most comfortable fit.
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Slender Swimsuit

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Wrap Swimsuit

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Tugless® Swimsuit

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Tugless® Midkini

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4. Denim

Denim

Denim

At some point on every holiday, jeans feel like the wrong answer. Too heavy, too warm, too much. This is the one that replaced them. Our Soft Comfort Linen Blend Jeans are cut wide leg with a drawstring waist — so the fit moves with you, not against you. The fabric is where they earn their place in your suitcase: a blend of cotton, linen and TENCEL™ that gives you the structure and attitude of denim with a fluid drape and natural breathability that regular jeans simply can’t match. Cool enough for the hottest part of the day, with that particular ease that only denim has — the kind that makes a simple outfit look like it came together on purpose.
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5. Men’s

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If there’s one thing worth adding to his case, it’s this.

Men’s

If there’s one thing worth adding to his case, it’s this. A linen shirt does everything a holiday shirt should — stays cool, packs small, looks right whether he’s at a beach bar or somewhere with an actual dress code. Go for neutrals. Stone, white, navy — colours that mix with whatever else he’s thrown in, which means you can pack fewer pieces for him and nothing will clash. The kind of thing he’ll wear every day and you won’t mind one bit.
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