Seven pieces no woman can live without on holiday! How to dress like a grown up with SHANE WATSON UK fashion expert reveals her seven holiday essentials for a stylish summer READ MORE: The 13 style rules that every midlife woman MUST follow (and yes, beige really is banned!) By Shane Watson For The Daily Mail Published: 20:11 BST, 9 June 2024 | Updated: 20:26 BST, 9 June 2024 e-mail 2 View comments Before we go any further, full disclosure: I want to look good on holiday but I’m no longer prepared to risk suncream leaking on to my best summer dress (so I leave that at home), or to pack shoes I can’t walk in all day. And I’m not buying anything just to wear on a two-week break. Twenty-five years ago I’d have stuffed all my favourite summer clothes in a suitcase and spent a month’s salary on a crochet cover-up, but now I know better.
I want to skip through an airport with carry-on luggage, which means refining that holiday wardrobe down to the bare minimum — seven can’t-go-wrong items — plus a couple of You Never Knows, for fun...
1. A pop-over day dress It doesn’t have to be a pop-over — V-neck, loose fit, no buttons or zips or belt — but it has to be easy, breezy and ideally midi with three-quarter sleeves, because coverage in the sun when you can’t get out of it is what keeps you cool. Sunny chic: Presenter Holly Willoughby shows black can be summery, I’ve been wearing the same tenty, lightly-striped Zara dress for years — and it does the job perf.
